[PROJECT S.N.A.I.L.] ZiS-30
During the first weeks of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the Soviet armoured forces suffered crushing losses at the hands of the well organised German army. As the number of Soviet armoured vehicles rapidly decreased, Soviet representatives searched for ways to compensate for the losses with easily produced vehicles. As a result, an order for the quick development of improvised self-propelled anti-tank guns was issued in July 1941 as a means of providing the Red Army cheap and easy-to-produce anti-tank weapons. The schedule was extremely tight, allowing only two weeks for development.
In response to this, the design bureau in No.92 Factory, led by P. F. Muravyev, developed a light anti-tank destroyer using the chassis of the Komsomolets tracked artillery tractor, propelled by a 4-cylinder GAZ-M automobile engine which produced 50 horsepower and top speeds of up to 47.5 km/h (29.5 mph). The process of refitting the vehicle was simple: the chassis and the hull remained unchanged, while the armament, the 57 mm ZiS-2 anti-tank gun, was simply mounted atop the vehicle. The crew consisted of four men, the commander/gunner, loader, driver and machine gunner manning the hull-mounted machine gun. The situation was so dire, that mass production was launched on September 21, 1941, and by October 15, 100 vehicles designated as the ZiS-30 were produced, a mere three months after the order to develop the vehicle was given, making it perhaps one of the fastest designed vehicles in the world.
The vehicle featured a gun that was capable of destroying any German tank of the period at combat range. This was a very welcome trait and proved invaluable to the Soviet defences against the German Panzers. However, there were significant disadvantages to its makeshift design. The weight of the gun reduced the mobility of the vehicle and the size of the vehicle allowed only a very small ammunition supply of 20 rounds to be carried. Protection of the crew was nonexistent, as the vehicle had only a very thin amount of armour and the gun crew was protected only frontally by the gun shield. The vehicle was unstable due to its high profile, had a low operational range and the communication between the driver and the gun crew was very problematic. Only 101 ZiS-30’s were manufactured due to problems with the availability of both the gun and the chassis, both being urgently needed elsewhere. The ZiS-30 served until Summer 1942, being replaced by more specialised vehicles such as the SU-76M once the urgency for such vehicles disappeared.
HP: 290
AMMO: 20 per shell type, 63 bullets in a mag 756 bullets in total
RELOAD SPEED: 5 seconds for the cannon, 8 for the mg
SPEED: 47 km/h forward, 7 km/h backwards
SEATS: 3, driver, hull mg gunner, and loader
WEAPONS: 57mm cannon, 7.62mm DT machine gun
GUN MOVEMENT: 57mm: 22 degrees of gun elevation, -4 degrees of gun depression, -30/30 degrees of gun traverse/ DT mg: -10/10 degrees of elevation and depression as well as traverse
-open top vehicle, you can kill the loader and driver easily, just shoot an HE shell on the gun shield
-low hp
-can get hurt by heavy damage type
-only 50% resistance to heavy damage type
-bad reverse speed
-strong recoil, careful when driving and shooting at once
-no 360 degrees of gun traverse, if anyone gets behind you, you’re dead, so don’t push too much with this vehicle
APHEBC
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SHELL DAMAGE: 827
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 178
SHELL DAMAGE: 827
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 229
SHELL DAMAGE: 68
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 151
highest damaging shell i have done so far! lol and it’s a 57mm one, not a 76mm one, well APHEBC cuz i think the SU-76M HEAT did like 3k, so yeah, my fav vehicle type has to be big gun with tiny chassis or big gun with big chassis or….just big gun in general lol (gosh i can’t wait to work on the kv-2 or su-122), also i had to nerf the recoil so hard cuz the bots would almost flipped over cuz they drove and shot lol, it was at a value of 2.5 of vehicle recoil but i nerfed it to 1.5
WORKING AUTO HEADLIGHTS, WILL TURN ON WHEN IT’S NIGHTTIME, WORKS WITH DAY/NIGHT MUTATOR
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SU-57B
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