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unusual facts about self-propelled gun



Lancia 3 RO

In North Africa and Sicily with the top of the cab cut away and lower sideboards the Lancia 3 Ro became well suited for desert warfare serving as a self-propelled gun porting the Cannone da 90/53 as well as the 100/17 howitzer.

M107 self-propelled gun

The top speed recorded by one M107 driver was 50 mph at the Grafenwöhr Training Area, Germany, on a tank trail.

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The PAVN also captured a number of these M107s, fore example 4 of them were captured at Quảng Trị in March 1972, and 12 of them were taken during Tây Nguyên offensive in 1975.

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When these guns were outranged by rocket fire from Tyre, they were upgraded with the addition of extended range, full-bore ammunition and new powder supplied by Gerald Bull's Space Research Corporation.

SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun

When work was stopped on the T-100 project, the SU-100Y was transported to Kubinka in the summer of 1940.


see also

Georgy Sergeev

In 1970s Georgy Sergeev was Chief Designer of the missile systems RT-21 Temp 2S, OTR-21 Tochka, OTR-23 Oka and 203 mm 2A44 gun for the self-propelled gun 2S7 Pion.

Landkreuzer

Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster, a proposed German self-propelled gun in World War II