122 mm gun M1931/37 (A-19)
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122 mm corps gun M1931/37 was a Soviet field gun developed in late 1930s by combining the barrel of the 122 mm gun M1931 and the carriage of the 152 mm howitzer-gun M1937. The gun was in production fr
M1931/37 at the Museum on Sapun Mountain, Sevastopol
The M1931/37 (right) stands beside what appears to be its predecessor, the M1931, in the Artillery Museum in Saint Petersburg.
The M1931/37 in the Central Armed Forces Museum, Moscow
The M1931/37 in Poznań Citadel
IS-3
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The IS-3 is a Soviet heavy tank developed in late 1944. Its semi-hemispherical cast turret became the hallmark of post-war Soviet tanks. Its pike nose design would also be mirrored by other tanks of t
122 mm gun M1931/37 (A-19)
…of the Red Army) and remained in service for a long time after the end of the war. Vehicle-mounted variants of the gun were fitted to the IS-2 and IS-3 tanks of the Iosif Stalin series of tanks and the ISU-122 self-propelled gun. In 1936 the Red Army adopted the 122 mm gun M1931, also known as A-19. Unlike…
IS-3 tank in a museum in Brussels
Frontal view of an IS-3. The squat solid-looking front profile and pike nose armor shape are highly distinctive. US Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen Maryland (2008)
Former Egyptian Army IS-3M
A restored IS-3 of the Military Museum Lešany, Czech Republic