Советская 2S3 152-мм самоходная гаубица - Ранняя версия - Трубач 05543

Модель бренда Trumpeter комплект: Soviet 2S3 152mm Self-Propeller Howitzer – Early Version – Trumpeter 05543.

Features : The kit consists of over 530 parts -the kit w/refined detail -multi-slide moulded turret, upper hull and lower hull -240 individual tracks links

Designated M1973 by the US Army, the Akatsiya is armed with a 152.4 mm howitzer based on the Soviet 152.4 mm D-20 howitzer and is sometimes confused with the M109 self-propelled artillery. The artillery system was developed at the design bureau No. 9 of Kalinin Machine-Building Plant in Sverdlovsk. The factory designation of the howitzer is D-22 and the GRAU designation, 2A33. The chassis was developed by Uraltransmash. Driver’s and engine-transmission compartments are located in a front part of a hull, fighting compartment with rotatory turret – in middle and rear parts of the hull. The armour is welded rolled steel. Howitzer is equipped with R-123 radio set, R-124 intercom, automatic NBC system with filtration unit and fire-fighting equipment. The V-59 12-cylinder four stroke water-cooled diesel engine connects with a mechanical twin gear transmission, a gear box is in one block with a planetary steering gear. SO-152 has self-entrenching equipment which allows to prepare a trench within 20-40 min. The crew consists of 4-6 men: a driver, a gunner, a loader, a commander, and two ammunition bearers, which are positioned to the rear of the vehicle feeding rounds through two hatches in the hull rear when in masked firing position.

Source: Trumpeter

Некоторое время назад Trumpeter анонсировал советскую самоходную гаубицу 2С3 масштаба 1/35, что ж, теперь мы можем видеть, чего ожидать. 2С3 базируется на советской 152,4-мм гаубице Д-20 и несет экипаж из 4-6 человек. Эта самоходная гаубица поступила на вооружение в 1971 году, когда советский ответ США сделала М109, и служила в Афганистане и во время двух чеченских войн, при этом в последнее время использовалась во время гражданской войны в Ливии. Источник:Арморама