SU76i - anyone know anything about this ?

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SU76i - anyone know anything about this ?

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A friend of mine has just come back from a long working spell in Moscow, and has posted this to me via Facebook:

"I was trawling through some old files yesterday and I found this, taken by me in Victory Park in Moscow a few years back. Apparently, after the German surrender at Stalingrad, the Russians found themselves the proud owners of 300 or so rather dog-eared Panzer III tanks. This is what they did with them. These things were graced with the name of SU76i and apparently 200 of them were produced. I think that it is a safe bet that the remaining 100 were used for spares !"

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Anyone know anything about this ? Looks like an interesting conversion if anyone's got a Panzer III and a T34/76 they were wondering what to do with ..... :wink:

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How interesting, Chris. Can't add anything except to say that the SU designation stands for Samokhodnya Ustanovka which translates as self-propelled installation, obvious really. Stephen
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Some info

http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/12/09/su-76i-and-su-85i/

https://books.google.nl/books?id=fzARBQ ... 6i&f=false
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Looks like the result of an Armortek Open Day rummage sale :lol: :lol:

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Adrian Harris wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:08 pm
 Looks like the result of an Armortek Open Day rummage sale :lol: :lol:

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