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from the wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34_var…

T-34/122 This Syrian conversion is a self-propelled howitzer armed with a 122 mm D-30 howitzer . The gun is facing backwards to preserve the center of gravity. The mount is completely open apart from a mantlet around the base of the gun tube. The rear of the mount includes a folding platform on which the gun crew works when firing the howitzer. While the vehicle is moving the platform is folded to avoid blocking the driver's vision.

there are no obsolete weapons only lack of imagination as this clever Syrian T-34 modified to mount a D-30 122mm Howitzer shows.

There are numerous variations on this concept using the T-34 as the base.

Turning what would be a fairly useless tank into an effective mobile artillery piece in a fairly simple conversion.

There are plenty of similar conversion using the D-30 and other soviet artillery pieces

most of them mounted on modified trucks to make them much more useful as self-propelled units.

Description

from the wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34_var…

T-34/122 This Syrian conversion is a self-propelled howitzer armed with a 122 mm D-30 howitzer . The gun is facing backwards to preserve the center of gravity. The mount is completely open apart from a mantlet around the base of the gun tube. The rear of the mount includes a folding platform on which the gun crew works when firing the howitzer. While the vehicle is moving the platform is folded to avoid blocking the driver's vision.

there are no obsolete weapons only lack of imagination as this clever Syrian T-34 modified to mount a D-30 122mm Howitzer shows.

There are numerous variations on this concept using the T-34 as the base.

Turning what would be a fairly useless tank into an effective mobile artillery piece in a fairly simple conversion.

There are plenty of similar conversion using the D-30 and other soviet artillery pieces

most of them mounted on modified trucks to make them much more useful as self-propelled units.