I can understand diverting the muzzle brake blast away from supporting infantry in street fighting, but wouldn’t this just make stirring up the dust from the ground problem even worse, obscuring the gunner’s view even more? Judging from the photos, this was obviously a field modification, how common was this practice? I don’t know a lot about the ISU-152, as I’ve never seen this before, but it doesn’t seem to have been adopted in post-war vehicle production, so was this a localized, street-fighting, late war modification only?
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Muy interesante trabajo…¡
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Yes. it was just late war modification only.
And 18Bravo was right. The back blast of gun is very dangerous to people
Soviet soldiers running thorught the street.
A soldier fell down because of blast of ZiS-3.
The footage from 1:00
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… I ordered the commander of the ISU-152 battery to immediately suppress the enemy firing point. The self-propelled gun, slapping on the asphalt with wide caterpillars, took a position on one of the streets facing the southeast side of the square…
… A shot of the large-caliber gun was heard. The air shook violently. One and a half stories of the building, together with the enemy anti-tank gun and its crew, collapsed to the ground.
I’m going to guess all they had to do was point the vehicle in the general direction of the building and they were good to go.
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ISU-152 when you absolutely positively have to kill every motherf*cker in the room, accept no substitute…. to Para phrase Sam L Jackson lol
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