29 July 2006

JSU-152 Assault Gun

The JSU-152 assault gun, armed with a 152mm gun, mounted with a box-like superstructure on a JS-2 chassis.

Imperial War Museum: Duxford 2006 Posted by Picasa

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like a miniture tank that.

d;-)

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

This is a huge mobile artillery piece, used to demolish strongpoints and so forth. It was also used to great effect against German heavy tanks. It was nicknamed 'Beast Killer' or something.

Anonymous said...

Yes, the picture can be rather deceptive i.e. small, the gun barrel is huge for a "miniture" tank as I noted later.

d;-)

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Yes, you are right, the image is deceptive.

This is really a big assault gun. I took this from a high vantage point, thus, there is an illusion that this is a small vehicle.