Posted on 05/06/2019 5:27:48 AM PDT by vannrox
SU-152 was a legendary Soviet howitzer canon. It was called a Heavy Tank Destroyer because of severe damage it caused to German Panther and Tiger tanks. Lets see why Nazi tank drivers were so afraid of it:
Those are examples of the German tanks being hit by SU-152.
There was very small chance for survival for the crews.
Panther tank front armor completely crashed by SU-152.
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http://bulletpicker.com/cartridge_-76mm-hvap-t_-m319.html
Also, my comment regarding the 76mm being a high velocity cannon was in contrast to the 75mm fitted to Shermans prior to the M18 (M18s with the 76mm were rolling out months before Shermans were fitted with the 76mm gun, M1A1) and not the HVAP ammo. Even without the HVAP ammo there was already the better part of a thousand feet per second muzzle velocity difference between the M18s M1A1/M1A1C/M1A2 and the Shermans 75mm.
Just so, though the earlier 75mm was thought to be better at performing HE tasks. A partial cure was the inclusion of 3 105 arty gun tanks being included in the HQ Section of a WWII Tank Battalion for any targets that deserved a good doaage of High Explosive. The higher velocity of the 76mm gun, as used in the late-war Shermans, M18 Hellcat and M41 light tank, caused its HE round to zip right through a structure or woodline, partially cured by fitting a *superquick* grazing fuze for HE work.
HVAP worked on killing Tigers in the 57mm/six-pounder antitank gun as well, and it's interesting to speculate how the 57mm-turreted version of the Ford M8/M20 Greyhound would have fared, had it reached serial production.
My timeframe was 1966-70, including service as the commander of out two-vehicle armored assault *scissors bridge* section- which had more firepower than the rest of out tank battalion put together. Our MOS was 11-E[ducated]!
“HVAP worked on killing Tigers in the 57mm/six-pounder antitank gun as well” - well, for certain values of “worked.” The PIAT gun ‘worked’ too but it was often lethally hard on the PIAT crew.
Good man. Now tighten all the lugnuts on the loader's side track center guides. When you're done, you can do the ones on the gunner's side.
Isn't this *Glory of the Cavalry stuff great?
T-34/85 (and other Russian tanks): What center guide lugnuts, Comrade?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtj_TSOHjw
Good anecdote - American ingenuity. :-)
None at all. However, the ends of the pin that connects the track shoes wears down and rub off, and can separate a track in as little as a hundred miles in stony or rocky country. BTW: Comrade/tovarisch went out of style with the end of the Soviet Union. It's mostly [citizen] now.
Yes, but given the timeframe this thread is talking about, WW2 - “comrade” is appropriate. :P
Da, tovariscvh! But then it's Great Patriotic War we're talkim about. Za Rodina! Za Stalina! Urrrrah!
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