After several reports, the general staff specified that a specially crafted self-propelled gun carriage was to be built around this high velocity gun.Ĭalled "Samokhodnaya Ustanovka" or "SU" (self-propelled carriage), with the successful D-5T high velocity antitank gun, from which it got its name, the SU-85 was in fact a provisional measure, being provided in a hurry in large quantities, waiting for the new T-34/85 to arrive. However, the few 52-K 85 mm (3.35 in) AA guns available then, newly provided on the battlefield at Kursk, proved lethal as antitank weapons, in the style of the German 88. It became clear that their long-range knock-out power was devastating and Soviet confidence over its own standard 76.2 mm (3 in) gun shattered, as it was unable to pierce German armor at safe range. The situation worsened with the coming, just in time for the battle of Kursk, of the new Panther tank. Both T-34 and KV-1 were deadly opponents form most German tanks of the time, until the arrival of the Tiger on the battlefield, in late 1942, although in limited numbers. ![]() The lineage of the SU-85 and SU-100, some of the most feared tanks destroyers of the war, can be clearly established straight from the huge production line of T-34, back in 1942. SU-85 Tank destroyer (1943) Soviet Union - 2050 built Based on the T-34
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