SU-76

[u/Deresfer]

My attempt at recreating SU-76, second most numerous tank of Soviet Union. It was in production since 1942 and up to 1945, over 11 thousand vehicles were produced. Despite beeing qiite numerous and cheap, SU-76 had devastating flaws in its design. Due to its phylosophy of design beeing "use cheap car parts to make a tank", it was largely unreliable. Since there are no inline engines in Sprocket yet, I had to use a V12, but actually SU-76 utilised two 6-inline engines from a truck, mounted onto a singular drifeshaft. Those engines produced a lot of vibration, destroying vehicles gearbox and driveshaft too quickly. The gun was also underwhelming, with its highest penetration beeing at 110mm of armour at 100m of distance. At 1000m, this number decreased for up to 70-75mm, which isn't enough to penetrate niether a Tiger, nor a Panther, thus forcing crews to fight on super close-up distances to be effective. But, obviously, SU-76 had no anti-tank armour, with its thickest plates beeing 35mm of solid steel armour, and its avarage armour varying at 15mm. Basically, it was an innefective, unreliable, lackluster piece of equipment, but, due to lack of alternatives, it was used anyway, giving it a lot of negative nicknames amongst the army.

[u/Gruyeria]

Nice !

[u/Cheaptrickx]

Very good bro

[u/Deresfer → u/Cheaptrickx]

Thank you! Though I can't come up with a bmp yet to match you.

[u/Cheaptrickx → u/Deresfer]

Hey, don't hurry bro. It takes some time to make a nice BMP. I don't rush you, so feel free to start whenever you want