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The SU-100 was a Soviet casemate-style tank destroyer. It was used extensively during the last year of World War II and saw service for many years afterwards with the armies of Soviet allies around the world.
It was developed in 1944 as an improvement to the SU-85, built on the same chassis as the T-34-85 tank. It was designed and built at the UZTM (Russian abbreviature УЗТМ for Уральский Завод Тяжелого Машиностроения – Ural Heavy Machinery Factory, also called Uralmash) in Yekaterinburg. The SU-100 quickly proved itself to be among the best self-propelled anti-tank guns of World War II, able to penetrate 125 mm (4.9 in) of vertical armor from a range of 2,000 m (1.2 mi) and the sloped 85 mm (3.3 in) front armor of the German Panther from 1,500 m (0.93 mi).[citation needed] The development was conducted under supervision of L. I. Gorlitskiy, chief designer of all medium Soviet self-propelled guns. The work started in February 1944 and first prototype of SU-100, called "Object 138", was built in March. After intensive testing with different models of 100 mm gun Soviet engineers approved the D-10S gun for mass production. This gun was developed in Constructors Bureau of Artillery Factory No. 9 under guidance of F. F. Petrov. After the Second World War it was installed on T-54 and T-55 tanks and its derivatives were in service forty years after initial development. The hull of SU-100 had major improvements over the SU-85; the thickness of the front armour was increased from 45 to 75 mm (1.8 to 3.0 in), and the commander's workplace was made in a small sponson on the right side of the hull; combined with the commander's cupola this greatly improved the commander's effectiveness. For better ventilation two ventilator units were installed, instead of only one as in the SU-85. Mass production began in September 1944.
The SU-100 saw extensive service during the last year of the war. It was used en masse in Hungary in March 1945, when Soviet forces defeated the German Operation Frühlingserwachen offensive at Lake Balaton. By July 1945, 2,335 SU-100s had been built.
The vehicle remained in service with the Red Army well after the war; production continued in the Soviet Union until 1947 and into the 1950s in Czechoslovakia. It was withdrawn from Soviet service in 1957 but many vehicles were transferred to reserve stocks. Some exist to this day in the Russian Army holding facilities.
Many Warsaw Pact countries also used the SU-100, as did Soviet allies such as Egypt, Angola and Cuba. A few SU-100 were delivered to Yugoslavia after the war, under the designation M-44.[1] The SU-100 saw service in the fighting that accompanied the 1956 Suez Crisis, in which the Egyptians used SU-100s against Israel's M4 Sherman tanks. The vehicle was also utilized in the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It was modified slightly to adapt it to the sandy conditions of the Middle East, thus creating the SU-100M variant. Exported SU-100s continued in service until the 1970s, and in some countries, even later. Yugoslavs used them during the civil war however due to lack of spare parts they were quickly retired, but performed satisfactorily. The SU-100 remains in use by the Vietnam People's Army and the Korean People's Army Ground Force despite the age of the design.
SU-100s entered service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China after 1 December 1950 when Soviet forces left Dalian. The armaments in Dalian were sold to China, including 99 SU-100s, 18 IS-2 heavy tanks, 16 T-54s and 224 T-34s, with which PLA formed its 1st Mechanised Division.
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The Soviet T-72 main battle tank.
My full set can be found here in approximate chronological order of service: www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157594476965425/
Scenes from the Russian Room and Soviet Walk. An area of Koots that resembles a mini museum, but is only open when the place gets busy enough on Fridays and Saturdays.
One of the crapiest cameras I once owned was a japanese 6x6 twin Lens called Firstflex that dated from the 50´s. A camera that looked nice and promising, but. I hadn’t tested it before bringing it to a roadtrip in Germany some time around 2011. Big mistake!
Every picture taken with it turned out to be blurry. The next year I went back to this very same place with a better camera but the building and its wall paintings was all gone, reduced to rubble by bulldozers.
Better try the camera before the trip, I learned! The Firstflex ended up in a bag for the thrift shop, adios, bon voyage!
Post scriptum: With the ongoing russian special looting and killing operation in Ukraine, I find the subject of soviet ruins not so funny and appealing anymore.
The soviet TE 5933 (former german BR52 Kriegslok) at the Osnabrück unter Dampf festival.
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This is a Russian Navy Clock (or Ship's Watch) made for use aboard Soviet submarines during the Cold War by the Chistopol Watch Factory (sometimes called the Vostok Factory).
This factory was founded in 1942 when a Moscow watch-making plant was evacuated from Moscow to a little town, Chistopol (Чи́стополь Now in the Republic of Tatarstan), located on The Kama River.
The company was appointed an official supplier of watches and clocks for the Defence Department of the Soviet Union in 1965. This clock was made in 1977 and has a 12 jewel 8-day movement.
Ferro Cuba Soviet built TE114K eases a light power move up to the grade crossing at the Camaguey Depot in March 2003.
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Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).