Uncovering the SU-122-54 | СУ-122-54 Soviet armored assault gun/tank destroyer
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- A fascinating vehicle shrouded in secrecy! Uncover the Soviet SU-122-54 design and some of its history here from a Western research viewpoint.
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Sources for this video were compiled by historian James Warford and include:
U.S. report “Soviet Ground Force Weapons and Armored Vehicles” in August 1969
U.S. report, “Warsaw Pact Ground Forces Facing NATO” (September 1969)
T-64, IT-122 and IT-130: The Soviet Advantage,” (ARMOR, September-October 1985
Armored Vehicle Development Behind the Curtain: the Secret Life of the Soviet SU-122-54 Assault Gun
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity manual, Soviet/Russian Armor and Artillery Design Practices: 1945-1995
Domestic armored vehicles; XX Century: Solyankin AG, Kudryashov KN / Volume 3
Russian Armored Vehicles, 1946-1965
Moscow, 2010. Manual on Material Parts and Maintenance of Self-Propelled Artillery Vehicle SU-122
Military Publishing House, USSR Ministry of Defense, Moscow, 1957
Viktor Suvorov, Inside the Soviet Army, New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1982.
“Inside the Soviet Army, Suvorov Replies,” International Defense Review, London, Issue 6/1983.
A.V. Karpenko, “122mm SU-122 (SU-122-54 Object 600),”
TankoMaster and Military-Technical Collection “Bastion” Joint Issue 1/2002, St. Petersburg, 2002.
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4:35 As a long time war thunder player I never could visualize how effective thickness works but that picture explained it perfectly, so cool!
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Yello Matt! 🤪😎
I love seeing you here Matt!
I always find mat in the weirdest places on UA-cam
Matt what's up!
Great collaboration on this topic by Sofi and Jim Warford. Sofi's work is well known to most of you all, but maybe Jim is a new name to you unless you read one of the many articles he wrote for Armor Magazine while he served as an active duty Armor officer and even into retirement. He put in an amazing amount of research on this vehicle and dug deep to find pretty obscure information about a system our intelligence agencies completely overlooked. Hats off to him for his diligence and hard work on bringing this system to light and to Sofi for her as-always great presentation skills and for getting it put together on her channel.
I've never seen one up close. This is really interesting to look at. All the vehicles we were exposed to were ZSU series vehicles and BTR vehicles. Your very informative with the information you provide. Your information is so much better then the S-4 sections back in the day. A Very Happy New Year to you SOFILEIN.
The Soviets changed their minds on SU-122-54 after two years by simply stating, "tanks but no tanks"
It's morning, I have coffee, and Sofi is talking about tank destroyers.......Gonna be a good day.
Every day should start like that 😄
Miss Sofilein, Your expertise is far and above any three PHD that sat under getting my BA in History. Well Done!
Well, it's not my expertise! I get to work with an awesome historian for these ones, so the credit goes to him. He wrote for ARMOR for a long time, I'm happy to help put the info together for presentation but it's his research.
Congratulation Sofi the opening segment was clever, artsy and fun. The balance was well paced, full of facts and the perfect length. Looking forward to future VOD. Cheers and Happy New Year!
Another great video! You did an excellent job narrating, and the information was relevant and well presented. The pictures were GREAT!! Job well done!
I was driver of a M60 A3 of Portugal Army, and is always nice too see other models of "tanks".
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it and learned something. What I liked in particular: the compact style (no rambling around as in videos of other tank youtubers), and the fact that you did the talking yourself (you have a cool voice), not standing next to another expert who did the talking. Keep it up - and if I can make a wish, a video about the T-10M you were photographed next to would be great!
0:00 и вам привет, товарищ Софи!))
Boris sure knew how to build en mass ! Frightening gun, with two loaders. Amazing it escaped atttention. Nice one Sofi, happy 2021 BTW. Hope that all armor festivals are a go this year 🦾.
I just found this video, and I must say that I liked so much - that it would be a shame if you don't upload another one like this soon! Highly enjoyable to listen to! Thank you, Sofi!
This video is in reccomendations and you got a new subscriber, this video is really informative and entertaining
Great content, keep it up!
Thanks for the well executed video. This specific vehicle used to be one of my wife's favorites in World of Tanks until they removed it. It should return as a collectors tank in my opinion!
Yes it needs to come back! I didn't get to reach it before it left
Не "Пошли", а - "Поехали!" ;-) Очень подробный и интересный рассказ об этой необычной "самоходке"! Круто!
Она пыталась перевести через гугл Lets go, а надо было Lets roll :)
Fastidious as usual, I'm glad to see. Fascinating work. greetings from East Anglia, Sofilein. Here's to a productive and happy new year!
Great video. I like this narration style video with the rare pictures.
Another wonderful presentation. I think you have educated a lot of history buffs. Thank you and Happy New Year.🥂
Popa Stalin would be pleased by your efforts! Your dedication to the subject is showing itself in quality production work. Well done!👍
Well done sofilien, such effort to make this video it's really good! Keep it up,Cheers!
Excellent as usual Sofi thanks for the info on this Awesome beast. Stay safe and a happy New Year to you and your family
Ever since (back in the 80s) as a kid I watched Spies Like Us, I had a thing for Russian speaking women in uniform.
Sure the whole red menace, nuclear destruction and all that suck, but come on!
Anyway, may I please point out the epic, no the most epic hair ever EVER on planet Earth at 0:57?
While I always "understood" the angle armor thingy, for some reason it never became as clear to my mind as when you showed that photo of the T-54. Thank you very much for that.
Absolutely great video Sofilein. Well done.
*stop watching Hilary's liberal news and you'll realize that Russians aren't evil/bad/menace whatsoever, etc....*
@@Maxtaticful I don't know what you are smoking, but you should stop it now before it is too late.
I miss this tank so much from ye olde World of Tank days. Awesome vid Sofi, love the history of lesser known AFV’s.
God bless you for actually discussing the armor!
Софи,привет!Ты молодчина)Приятно услышать родную речь в твоих видео)))
Most excellent video! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻
Got to love those SU-85, -100, 122, -122-54, -152's....would be something to have during rush hour, not to mention....there'd be no road rage! 😉😆😂
Happy New Year....here's to a helluva lot better 2021! 🍻🤗🐻🤗
A surprisingly good looking vehicle, very well proportioned and the big mantlet boss with the ring of rivets is very distinctive.
Always had a soft spot for this vehicle. Great to learn so much about it.
Nice and clear Solfilein, thanks for sharing 😊
i see you-had lots of help with the research but its nice to hear you narrate your videos. nicely done.
Great facts SOF. Great to see your research into these topics. Wish there were more like you. But saying that. Am glad there is just the one of you to bring these tanks to life.👍👍
Thanks, Sofi. If you keep this up, I'm going to be thinking of you more as a researcher and less as an enthusiast. Happy New Year!
obscure vehicles are fun. thanks for the info about this guy.
Wow Sofi, great video!
Thanks for this Sofilein, I didn't know anything about this vehicle before this.
Great informative video Sofie AND really good to "see" you. Also, you have a really good easy listening voice for the narrative 👍
The drawing @ 0:28 is like something my friend would make in High School XD You see.... we weren't just wasting our time drawing Tanks!
That little photo has a really really interesting story behind it and its artist will get his own video. It reminded me of my tank art too though 🤣
Have a Nice 2021 start sofie
Wow you look right at home with hat! Your content as of recent is top notch. I want more, keep it up!
I gout here as fast as l could! Awesome presentation dear! On par with The Chieftain's stuff! Thank you!
Happy new year with a interesting tank! perfect outfit to present this SU 👍 , thanks for the video!
Great information lol@oh viewer of plenty! You've been binging on that series ;)
Thank You Love your videos, Happy Year🧔
Exciting video, really interesting to realize that these were being kept secret from the western world. It would be really exciting to learn more about these & their SU designation😎👍👍
Looking forward to seeing your next video & also finishing watching all your older content 😎👍👍
It's funny, somebody left a comment on the War Thunder news entry about why the American tech tree was getting so much focus at top tier, and one of the Dev's response was that the US had an enormous variety of aircraft during the middle Cold War period. And this video, when she talks about the Soviet exercise, we see the threat that those aircraft were designed to counter (specially CAS aircraft and aircraft capable of carrying large bomb loads).
That looks like it would have been a VERY effective tank destroyer! Great video - now I must add one of these to my 1/35 scale armor collection!!
Nice! A lot of facts, ill check further. Thanks for that.
Great video I just started to play this in War Thunder and the more you know the more fun you have in the games!
Very nice video and great tank destroyer. Thank you Sofilein!
Reminds me a little to the ASU-85 (self propelled assault gun) on steroids.
Great video. I've seen this tank before, but I thought it never got beyond a prototype. Thanks for filling this gap.
Thank You Sofi, Nicely done and very informative.
Outstanding presentation. Thanks for this.
great vid Sofi!!!!.....tons of info!!!
Another Outstanding video and presentation.
happy new years, sofi, thanks for a cool vid
happy new year sofi. keep up the good work. : )
Excellent video ! Good analysis of these really important tanks
Thanks for the great video, and useful information Sofi, happy new year's!
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Excelente Sofi bellísimo video saludos desde Argentina
Enjoyed the SU history lesson. Well done!😎
Happy New year 2021 ! Very interresting content ! As always !
Thank you Sofilien! I'm at present transitioning from my study of Gernan armoured vehicles over to Russian armoured vehicles.
It might be a little dangerous to say, but I'm really intrigued by the development/appearance (?) of the SU-152. Of course everyone is aware of the very famous ISU-152/122 series of SP vehicles but I think it would be REALLY interesting if there was a study of the SU-152. As far as I have been able to ascertain, there was such a vehicle as the SU-152.
Please excuse me if this is a simplistic request and that I've missed a whole series of information on this matter. I find the existence (..or not) of this armoured vehicle to have aroused my technical interest.
Great video Sofie!
Thank you for the videos! I LOVE armor history and was a 19K a lifetime ago.
THX for infos. Greetings from Czech republic, previously named Czechoslovakia.
You can understand the Americans thinking the ARV version was a T-62 variant given the wheel spacing.
Love your outfit. Such a technical subject
Happy new year Miss lovely wonderful Sofilein
this was very interesting.... Awesome video!
Wowzers... I guess I didn't know. I always thought they were self propelled artillery. Thanks.
Interesting viedo! You have a good voice for narrating!
Very interesting and informative video Fräulein Sofi! Tnx and happy new year!
Great photos ! A tank named Sue must be tuff.
Well done as always 👏👍
Loved the vid. Loved the KMFDM shirt.
ok, now im subscribing :) u r getting better :)
I enjoyed that! Happy New Year to all!
This is a great history lesson 👍
This is great bit of info on a very interesting tank! Happy New Year!
Great info on such an unknown machine.
More German armor would be great to see as I'm fascinated about ir
"Suka," was a pejorative applied to the SU-76, probably because it was lightly armored, had an open fighting compartment, and the Zis-3 field piece was marginally able to deal with the "cats" of the German army by the time the vehicle was entering widespread service. I helped restore an example kindly "donated" by the NKPA in 1950 (after 1st MARDIV Marines cleaned out the dead crew). It was then used against its former owners as evidenced by the large white star on the hull covering the original red star. At some point she ran over a mine which pierced the lower hull and the oil pan in #1 engine and spinning a journal bearing. After 40 years in the rain she was pretty ragged but after twelve hundred hours of sandblasting, priming, and painting she was proudly added to the collection at the Marine Corps Air/Ground Museum at Quantico VA.
I always wanted to see these tanks up close. The only tank up close that I saw was the M1 Abrams.
At the moment it overran you?
Veteran?
@@JamesKain Never in Combat?
@@JamesKain Never in Combat?
@@asgi99 I was asking @J_Heinz if they're a veteran. Personally I'm a non-combat veteran. I missed the 2nd Iraq war by medical discharge. Train for almost 3 years then told your not going to get to do your job. Im still salty about it. But it's a blessing too. My replacement was killed. We're not combat troops, but thrust into convoy security.
Very educating, thank you. Dziękuję
Hi Sofi. The color of the usanka goes a lot to the color of your eyes! ; -)
Please do a whole video on the SU naming convention
Very interesting story. Thanks 🙏
Nice accent, awesome hat.......and well researched. Good stuff :)
It is so much detailed info 🙂
I definetily like it!
The schematic drawings indicate the vehicle's ammunition stored around the loader's station right next to the hull, a hit on this tank, even one that does not fully penetrate would create spawling hot shards that would almost certainly ignite the ammo inside.
Old Tier 9 Td, nice video =)
COOL! Yes please to more content from yourself please Sofilein X
Love the Russian garb, comrade!!
Owh my memory come back... I remember when I seen and face this tank at battlefield. I was totally shock. I'm crew lowe, suddenly my tank can't move due track damage. Using kit but already late. My lowe totally lost. Rip to my lowe....World of Tanks
impressed by the "самоходная установка" pronounciation. good video.
KMFDM shirt - now this is a like in itself :)
Privet) that was really unexpected) and.. so nice) Happy New Year!