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Self-Propelled Artillery

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Also Known As

自走砲

About Self-Propelled Artillery

Also known as: 自走砲

A motorized field artillery or anti-tank gun. The difference between it and a Tank is that the latter is a versatile support vehicle designed to help infantry, while a self-propelled gun is a mobile gun with a single purpose. A Tank Destroyer is technically a self-propelled gun but because of the similarity to a normal Tank, they tend to be grouped under tanks.

Anti-tank self-propelled guns generally have the gun mounted to the chassis itself in a turretless design (like the German Stug/Stuh or Russian SU-series of guns). Artillery pieces are more varied in design and can have a turret or an exposed cannon.

This only applies to artillery pieces with a cannon; mobile rocket launchers are not covered by this term.

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