| Full Name | Samokhodnaya Ustanovka-152 |
| Class | Heavy Vehicle |
| Movement | 5 |
| Armor Value | 5 |
| Vs Infantry (RNG / FPR) | 10/10 |
| Vs Vehicle (RNG / FPR) | 8/12 |
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| Period | Late 1942-1945 |
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This successful Soviet self-propelled heavy howitzer featured a 152 mm (L/27.9) gun-howitzer in a casemate mounted on the chassis of a KV-1S heavy tank. In addition to being effective in infantry support roles, it also often served as an impromptu tank destroyer, capable of knocking out the heaviest German armoured vehicles; in this role, it was second only to the SU-100 as an anti-tank vehicle. Its weaknesses included slow rate of fire; cramped crew quarters; and an effective main weapon range that was within the range of German 88 mm KwK 36/43 guns, which exposed the vehicle's frontal armor to penetration. For defense it carried one 12.7 mm DShK machine gun. A crew of five operated this 45.5-tonne vehicle at a top speed of 27 mph. Manufacturer Ural’s’kiy Zavod Tyazhelogo Mashinostroyeniya (UZTM) produced about 700 units total, all in 1943, and the type served through World War II and into the mid-1950s.