self-propelled artillery

A motorized field artillery or anti-tank gun. The difference between it and a tank is that the latter is a versatile support vehicle designed to help infantry, while a self-propelled gun is a mobile gun with a single purpose. A tank destroyer is technically a self-propelled gun but because of the similarity to a normal tank, they tend to be grouped under tanks.

Anti-tank self-propelled guns generally have the gun mounted to the chassis itself (like the German Stug/Stuh or Russian SU-series of guns). Artillery pieces are more varied in design and can have a turret or an exposed cannon.

This only applies to artillery pieces with a cannon; mobile rocket launchers are not covered by this term.

See also

• Jagdpanther
• M7 Priest
• Marder III
• Panzerhaubitze 2000
• Sturmgeschutz III
• SU-152
• SU-122
• list of ground vehicles

This tag implicates military_vehicle and motor_vehicle (learn more).