SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun
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SU-100Y at Kubinka, Autumn 1940 |
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| SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun | |
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| Weight | 60 tonnes |
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| Main armament | 130mm Navel Gun B-13 |
| Secondary armament | 3x 7.62mm DT MG |
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The SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun was a Soviet prototype tank, developed from the prototype T-100 tank. It was developed during the Winter War with Finland to include a 152 mm gun to destroy concrete defensive structures like bunkers and anti-tank obstacles.
In connection with the end of works along the tank T-100, further fate Su-100Y was decided beforehand. Self-Propelled Unit was transmitted into Kubinka in the summer of 1940. Anywhere it did not evacuate since the beginning of the war. In November 1941, at the most critical moment of battle in the suburbs of Moscow, Su-100Y, together with the 152mm gun armed experimental SU-14 and Su-14-1, it became part the Independent Artillery Divizion for Special Duties. However, the information about the combat employment Su-100y could not be found.
SU-100Y was preserved up to now and it is located in the Military Historic Museum of Tank Armament and Technology in Kubinka.
[edit] External Links
- http://ww2armor.jexiste.fr/Takhn/Files/1-Vehicles/6-SPG/SU-100Y/SU-100Y.htm
- http://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&lang=en&id=58
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