SU-100

SU-100-Soviet anti-tank self-propelled artillery (PT-ACS) during the Second World war, class of tank fighters, the average weight. Was established on the basis of the average T-34-85 tank design Bureau of Uralmashzavod in late 1943 — early 1944 as further development of tank destroyers SU-85 because of lack of capacity the last to fight against German heavy tanks. Serial production of SU-100 was started at Uralmashzavod in August 1944 and continued until the beginning of 1948. In addition, in 1951-1956 its production under the Soviet license was carried out in Czechoslovakia. Total in the USSR and Czechoslovakia was released 4976 ACS of this type.

The first combat use of the SU-100 took place in January 1945, and later the SU-100 was used in a number of operations of the great Patriotic war and the Soviet-Japanese war, but in General their combat use was limited. After the war, the SU-100 was repeatedly modernized and remained in service with the Soviet army for several decades. SU-100 was also supplied to the allies of the USSR and participated in a number of post — war local conflicts, including the most active-during the Arab-Israeli wars. By the end of the twentieth century, the SU-100 was decommissioned in most of the countries that used IT, but, nevertheless, in some of them, as of 2007, it still remains in service.

Uralmash engineers of L. I. Gorlitskiy, A. L. Kizima, S. I. Samoilov; engineers of plant No. 9 A. N. Bulanov, V. N. Sidorenko mechanical engineer and P. F. Samoilov for the creation of ACS 1946 was awarded the title of laureate of the Stalin prize of the first degree