Soviet ISU-122 self-propelled gun on a mountain road in the Battle of Serbia

Soviet ISU-122 self-propelled gun on a mountain road in the Battle of Serbia

Oct 17, 2019 #Red Army
ISU-122

 

ISU-122 self-propelled gun from the 352nd guards heavy self-propelled artillery regiment of the Red Army on a mountain road on the way to Belgrade to liberate the city from Nazi occupiers.

ISU-122 (Object 242) – Soviet heavy self-propelled artillery gun during the Great Patriotic War. In the name of the blag machine, the abbreviation ISU means “self-propelled gun on the basis of the JS tank”; the letter “I” in addition to the standard Soviet designation “SU” for military equipment of this class was required to distinguish it from self-propelled guns of the same caliber SU-122 on another tank chassis. Index 122 denotes the caliber of the main armament of a combat vehicle.




Location: Serbia, Yugoslavia
Photo Time: October 1944
Photo by: Olga Lander

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