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The ISU-152 (Russian: Самоходная установка на базе танка ИС с орудием калибра 152мм, ИСУ-152, romanized: Samokhodnaya Ustanovka na baze tanka IS s orudiyem kalibra 152mm, meaning "IS tank based self-propelled installation with 152mm caliber gun") is a Soviet self-propelled gun developed and used during World War II.
The SU-152 (Russian: самоходная установка-152, СУ-152, romanized: Samokhodnaya Ustanovka-152) is a Soviet self-propelled heavy howitzer used during World War II. It mounted a 152 mm gun-howitzer on the chassis of a KV-1S heavy tank. Later production used an IS tank chassis and was re-designated ISU-152. [2]
ISU-130, a tank destroyer based on the IS-2 chassis armed with an 130mm S-26 gun. ISU-152, another heavy howitzer of World War II over the IS-2 heavy tank chassis. Object 704, a modernized ISU-152 made in 1945. ISU-152-10, another name for Object 268, an experimental self-propelled heavy howitzer over the T-10 heavy tank chassis
The standard ISU-152 was captured, operated and abandoned in 1944. Another was captured in 1944 and rebuilt into an armoured recovery vehicle and was used between 1944 and 1959. Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.
The main differences between the SU-152G and the ISU-152 as well as its variants, and that between it and 2S3 made it what appeared to be a middle ground between these two self-propelled guns. The ISU-152 was intended to be a heavy assault gun from the beginning, which required capability of direct firing, and a weak transition towards firing ...
ISU 122s can be seen in the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps in St Petersburg, the Kubinka Tank Museum, the Central Museum of the Russian Army, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv (where it is an ISU-152 crudely modified with spare D-25T gun, labeled as ISU-122) and ...
That the ISU-152 could have knocked out German heavy tanks, is out of the equation as I never have argued against that. Instead, I said, that military historian Robert Forczyk has found that the kill claims of some ISU 152 crews against Tiger and Ferdinands were highly exaggerated or outright fictional and that the creation of the nickname ...
This was not a success in battle, and was replaced with a very successful series of turretless assault guns: the SU-76, SU-122, and the heavy SU-152, which were followed by the ISU-122 and ISU-152 on the new IS heavy tank chassis. The German Stug III assault gun, here in one of its early configurations, armed with a 75 mm StuK 37 howitzer