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Suggestions / ISU-152
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ISU-152 is the soviet heavy self-propelled-artillery setting (SAU) of period of Great Patriotic war. In the name of machine abbreviation of ISU means «Self-propelled Setting on the base of tank IS» or «IS-Setting»; the letter of «I» in addition to standard soviet denotation of «SU» of military equipment of such class was required for a difference from SAU of that caliber of SU-152 on other tank base. Index 152 means the caliber of basic armament of machine.
A fighting machine was developed the designer bureaus of experimental factory 100 in iyune-oktyabre of 1943 and accepted on the armament of Working-peasant Red Army (RKKA) of November, 6 of that year. Its mass production at the Chelyabinskom Kirovskom Plant (CHKZ), proceeding to 1946 year, began then. A few machines of this brand were produced in 1945 by the Leningrad Kirovskiy factory (LKZ). ISU-152 widely used on the finishing stage of Great Patriotic war practically in all of aspects of the use of self-propelled artillery and played an important role in the defeat of nazi Germany and its allies. Besides RKKA, ISU-152 were in the armament of armies of Poland and Czechoslovakia, the single captured machines were utillized Vermakhtom and army of Finland.
In a post-war period ISU-152 passed modernization and long were in the armament of Soviet Army. They were supplied also for the equipment of Egyptian military powers. Passed to Egypt of self-propelled took part in the arabo-izrail'skikh armed conflicts on Near east. Since a middle 1970th, ISU-152 were taken off from the armament of Soviet Army and more modern SAU is transferable; several of survivor from a chopping-off on the metal of machines now serve as monuments and exhibits in the museums of different countries of the world.
A fighting machine was developed the designer bureaus of experimental factory 100 in iyune-oktyabre of 1943 and accepted on the armament of Working-peasant Red Army (RKKA) of November, 6 of that year. Its mass production at the Chelyabinskom Kirovskom Plant (CHKZ), proceeding to 1946 year, began then. A few machines of this brand were produced in 1945 by the Leningrad Kirovskiy factory (LKZ). ISU-152 widely used on the finishing stage of Great Patriotic war practically in all of aspects of the use of self-propelled artillery and played an important role in the defeat of nazi Germany and its allies. Besides RKKA, ISU-152 were in the armament of armies of Poland and Czechoslovakia, the single captured machines were utillized Vermakhtom and army of Finland.
In a post-war period ISU-152 passed modernization and long were in the armament of Soviet Army. They were supplied also for the equipment of Egyptian military powers. Passed to Egypt of self-propelled took part in the arabo-izrail'skikh armed conflicts on Near east. Since a middle 1970th, ISU-152 were taken off from the armament of Soviet Army and more modern SAU is transferable; several of survivor from a chopping-off on the metal of machines now serve as monuments and exhibits in the museums of different countries of the world.