Category: Self-Propelled Artillery
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BM-13-16 NM Katyusha
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Gedenkstätte Seelower Höhen, Seelow, Germany Just in time The BM-13 first was first produced in May 1941. Just around forty units had been built when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union the following month, but by the end of the war it would be…
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SU-152
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery/Tank Destroyer Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Lubuskie Muzeum Wojskowe, Drzonów, Poland Versatile bunker buster The SU-152 was built on the chassis of the KV-1S heavy tank. Designed to attack enemy fortifications, it was replacing the T-34-based SU-122 which had been found unsuitable to fight against tanks. “SU” stood for…
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Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: USA/UK/France/Italy/Germany Period: Cold War Location: Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands Arms race at a snail‘s pace The MLRS was a joint American, British, French, Italian and West German cooperation to develop a highly mobile self-propelled artillery system for attacking a target area with large amounts of firepower. Compared to the pinpoint…
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Panzerhaubitze 2000
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: Germany Period: Cold War Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany State of the art The Panzerhaubitze 2000 is Germany‘s most modern gun-based self-propelled artillery system. Development had started in 1987, but it took until 1998 for the first vehicles to be issued to the Bundeswehr as a replacement for the venerable M109.…
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25-pr SP tracked, Sexton II
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery Nation: Canada Period: World War 2 Location: Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Normandie, Bayeux, France The QF 25-pounder gun was the standard towed howitzer of the British and Commonwealth forces in World War 2. Since the artillery needed to keep up with the mechanised formations, an improvised self-propelled 25-pounder gun version…
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Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. F8 (Sd.Kfz. 142/1)
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery/Tank Destroyer Nation: GermanyPeriod: World War 2Location: Bastogne Barracks, Belgium Already as early as 1935, the German Army had demanded artillery guns to become more mobile so that they would be able to keep up with the advancing troops. The first five prototypes of the Sturmgeschütz (based on the Panzer III chassis) were…
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ISU-152
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery/Tank Destroyer Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany The ISU-152 was a self-propelled assault gun based on the chassis of the IS-2 heavy tank. It looks almost identical to its predecessor SU-152, which had been built on the older KV-1’s hull. You can tell the difference by comparing…
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Sturmgeschütz IV (Sd.Kfz. 163)
Type: Self-Propelled Artillery/Tank Destroyer Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: Muzeum Broni Pancernej w Poznaniu, Poznań, Poland The StuGs (“Sturmgeschütz” meaning “assault gun”) were Nazi Germany’s most-produced armoured vehicles in World War 2. Designed as an infantry support weapon, they were found to make very effective tank destroyers when equipped with longer and more…
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