![]() Mass production was approved in September 1944, so the SU-100 missed Operation Bagration but arrived in time for the final offensive on Germany and Berlin, while others participated in the Romanian/Hungarian offensive. However, it was equipped with a new, well-conceived commander cupola, and the crew compartment was cooler due to a second ventilator. The SU-100 was built at the Ural Heavy Machinery Factory (Uralmash), with a thicker frontal glacis, which rose to 75 mm (2.95 in), and a newly designed casemate, with a more pronounced slope, sacrificing some habitability. In fact this gun, and postwar derivatives, equipped the Russian main battle tanks T-54 and T-55 and was in service with many armies around in the world. It showed excellent performance, being able to pierce 120 mm (4.72 in) armor at up to 2000 meters (2187 yards) and the sloped 85 mm (3.35 in) frontal armor of the Panther at 1500 m (1640 yards). Only one, the D-10S, from the Constructors Bureau of Artillery Factory No. Gorlitskiy, who created the "Obyekt 138" in February 1944, the prototype designed to test several 100 mm (3.94 in) mounts. The SU-85s days were counted and despite the arrival of the new improved SU-85M, a new design based on a better antitank gun was needed to keep the edge on the battlefield in terms of tank-hunters.Ĭlosely related to the SU-85, the SU-100 incorporated much of its design, around the new D10 100 mm (3.94 in) antitank gun. At the same time, the T-34/85 was equipped with the same gun, but with a 360° arc of fire, arriving en masse to the front. ![]() By mid-1944 the SU-85 already proved unable to penetrate the sloped armor of the late Panthers and Tigers. ![]()
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