152mm Artillery
The 152mm Howitzer (Designated the M1938, or M10) is a unit available in Flames of War. It is most notable for the weapon that could be found on the KV-2.
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In the early 1930s, the state of Soviet Weaponry was in a woeful state. Years of civil war, purges, and inept leadership, along with a lack of skilled labor meant that most weaponry had barely advanced much further than WWI. This included existing stocks of Soviet Artillery, which were primarily stocks back when the Czar was still a thing. However, being Communist, no one really wanted to help them out with making weapons.
Suddenly, these people with a funny spider over in Germany offered to jointly design artillery. the Soviets eagerly accepted in order to gain experience, and the Germans were happy because they were able to get around the Suggestion of Versailles. Unfortunately, not much came from these experiments, but the Soviet weapons industry actually learned how to do heavy weapons production, even if what they and the Germans created was complete and utter shit.
All this lead to the development of the M10 in 1937 by F.F. Petrov, and it was adopted two years later. However, the bugs had not been worked out of it, from minor ones like an unreliable suspension to more serious ones like leaks in the recoil buffer. Production models in 1940 saught to rectify these problems. Production was halted in favor of the D-1 152mm Howitzer, which didn't have the same problems that plagued the M-10.
Funnily enough, the Finns managed to get their hands on nearly 100 of them, and considered them to be decent, albeit a little heavy. In fact, part of the reason the M10 was halted early war was that it was so heavy: they didn't have adequate numbers of artillery tractors to tug them to battlefronts fast enough.
| Soviet Forces in Flames of War | |
|---|---|
| Tanks: | T-70 - Valentine - M5/M3 Stuart - M3 Lee - T-34 - KV - Churchill - IS-2 - Captured Tank Platoon - T-28 - BT-7 - KV-2 - T-26 |
| Transports: | M3 Scout Car - Universal Carrier - SdKfz 251 |
| Infantry: | Rifles - Motor Rifles - Penal Company - Storm Group - SMG Company - Engineer Sapper Company |
| Artillery: | Katyusha - 152mm Artillery - 122mm Artillery - 76mm Artillery - 120mm Mortars - 82mm mortars |
| Tank Destroyers and Assault Guns: | 45mm Anti Tank - 57mm Anti Tank - 76mm Anti Tank - 100mm Anti Tank - SU-76 - SU-85 - SU-100 - SU-122 - SU-152 - ISU-122/ISU-152 |
| Recon: | Scout Platoon - BA-64 Platoon - Armored Reconnaissance Platoon - Reconnaissance Platoon |
| Aircraft: | Il-2 Sturmovik |
| Anti-Aircraft: | ZSU M17 - DShK AA MG Platoon |
| Midwar Monsters: | KV-3 - KV-5 - T-43 |