Armored or protected vehicles carrying integral artillery systems for indirect fire, including howitzers, guns, and related battlefield artillery.
The Gun Carrier Mark I was designed to transport heavy field artillery on a tracked vehicle, extending mechanization beyond the gun-armed fighting tank.
Read the profileThe Bishop was Britain’s first wartime attempt to put the standard 25-pounder field gun on a tracked armored chassis so artillery could keep pace with mobile formations in North Africa.
Read the profileThe M7 Priest became the characteristic self-propelled artillery piece of U.S. armored divisions in the Second World War, combining the standard 105 mm howitzer with tank-derived mobility.
Read the profileThe Grille family placed the heavy 15 cm infantry gun on the reliable Panzer 38(t) chassis, giving German infantry-support units a tracked weapon that could relocate far faster than the towed gun.
Read the profileThe Hummel provided German armored divisions with a mobile 150 mm howitzer, complementing the lighter Wespe with heavier indirect fire.
Read the profileThe Sexton paired Canadian armored-vehicle production with the British 25-pounder, giving Commonwealth armored formations a mobile artillery system that used their standard field gun and ammunition.
Read the profileThe Wespe gave German panzer divisions a compact 105 mm self-propelled howitzer on a modified Panzer II chassis, trading armor for mobility and rapid production.
Read the profileThe M12 mounted a powerful 155 mm gun on a tracked chassis, giving U.S. heavy artillery a mobile weapon that could accompany the advance and rapidly reposition during the campaign in Western Europe.
Read the profileThe M40 and M43 were the U.S. Army’s late-war heavy self-propelled artillery family, using a common Sherman-derived chassis for either a 155 mm gun or an 8-inch howitzer.
Read the profileThe M53 and M55 were a common-chassis heavy artillery pair: the M53 carried a 155 mm gun and the M55 an 8-inch howitzer in a large armored rear turret.
Read the profileThe M44 was an early Cold War U.S. 155 mm self-propelled howitzer intended to replace wartime systems with a more compact artillery vehicle suited to mechanized formations.
Read the profileThe M52 put a 105 mm howitzer in a fully enclosed rotating turret on a light-tank-derived chassis, giving Cold War mechanized forces protected mobile artillery in the lighter field-artillery class.
Read the profileThe M107 and M110 shared a lightweight tracked carriage but mounted different heavy weapons, giving Cold War artillery units either exceptional gun range or the destructive power of an 8-inch howitzer.
Read the profileThe M108 and M109 emerged from a postwar U.S. requirement for mobile artillery able to accompany armored forces; the 155 mm M109 branch became the enduring family.
Read the profileThe FV433 Abbot was Britain’s purpose-designed Cold War 105 mm self-propelled gun, replacing the surviving Sexton era with a compact turreted artillery vehicle for mechanized formations.
Read the profileThe 2S1 Gvozdika brought a light 122 mm self-propelled howitzer into Soviet mechanized formations on an amphibious tracked chassis closely related to the MT-LB family.
Read the profileThe 2S4 Tyulpan is an exceptionally heavy self-propelled mortar designed to deliver large 240 mm bombs against fortified positions and other targets requiring effects beyond conventional divisional artillery.
Read the profileThe 2S3 Akatsiya was the Soviet Union’s principal 152 mm divisional self-propelled howitzer of the Cold War, pairing a turreted gun with tracked mobility for mechanized operations.
Read the profileThe 2S7 Pion is the Soviet Union’s massive 203 mm self-propelled gun, later modernized as the 2S7M Malka for long-range heavy fire at operational depth.
Read the profileThe Type 75 was Japan’s first postwar domestically developed 155 mm self-propelled howitzer, providing the Ground Self-Defense Force with tracked mobile artillery for Cold War defense.
Read the profileThe 2S5 Giatsint-S was built around a long-range 152 mm gun rather than a turreted howitzer, giving Soviet higher-level artillery a mobile weapon optimized for reach and counterbattery fire.
Read the profileThe systems known in the West as M-1978 and M-1989 Koksan are North Korean 170 mm self-propelled guns designed for unusually long-range artillery missions.
Read the profileThe French AuF1 placed a 155 mm automated artillery turret on the AMX-30 chassis, giving mechanized formations a protected tracked howitzer with substantial onboard ammunition and high tactical mobility.
Read the profileThe 2S9 Nona-S gave Soviet airborne forces an air-droppable tracked artillery vehicle whose 120 mm gun-mortar could fire both mortar bombs and specialized artillery projectiles.
Read the profileThe DANA and Zuzana family made Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia early leaders in heavy wheeled self-propelled artillery, combining a Tatra 8×8 chassis with an armored turret.
Read the profilePalmaria was an Italian export-oriented 155 mm self-propelled howitzer that combined a large turreted gun system with a tracked chassis and automated loading assistance.
Read the profileThe M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System gave NATO armies a tracked armored launcher able to deliver massed rockets and, later, precision-guided rockets and tactical missiles from the same modular launcher.
Read the profileThe PLZ-83 gave China a domestically produced turreted 152 mm self-propelled howitzer broadly comparable in role to contemporary Soviet divisional artillery systems.
Read the profileSouth Africa’s G6 combined a long-range 155 mm gun with a heavily armored six-wheeled chassis, creating one of the Cold War’s most distinctive self-propelled artillery systems.
Read the profileThe TOS-1 family mounts a short-range heavy rocket launcher on a tank-derived armored chassis for concentrated incendiary and thermobaric fire against fortified positions and area targets.
Read the profileThe 2S19 Msta-S replaced the 2S3 as the Soviet and later Russian standard 152 mm tracked howitzer, combining a long-range gun with greater automation and modernized fire control.
Read the profileThe PLZ-45 moved Chinese self-propelled artillery into the NATO-standard 155 mm export market, combining a longer-range gun with modern laying and navigation systems.
Read the profileThe AS-90 replaced Britain’s older Abbot and imported M109-era systems with a modern 155 mm tracked howitzer designed for Royal Artillery support of armored and mechanized formations.
Read the profileIran’s Raad-2 is a domestically developed 155 mm self-propelled howitzer that combines locally produced armored-vehicle components with a turret layout strongly influenced by the M109 family.
Read the profileThe Panzerhaubitze 2000 is Germany’s modern 155 mm tracked howitzer, built around high rates of fire, long-range NATO ammunition, digital fire control, and rapid shoot-and-scoot tactics.
Read the profileSouth Korea’s K9 Thunder has grown from a national 155 mm tracked howitzer into one of the world’s most widely adopted modern artillery families.
Read the profileThe Type 99 replaced Japan’s Type 75 with a longer-ranged 155 mm tracked howitzer featuring a larger gun, greater automation, and modern fire-control integration.
Read the profileTürkiye’s T-155 Fırtına adapts the K9 artillery architecture to Turkish requirements, combining a 155 mm/52-calibre weapon with domestic fire-control, communications, and production integration.
Read the profileThe PLZ-05 is China’s modern heavy tracked 155 mm howitzer family, combining long-range fire with automation and digital fire-control features for PLA artillery brigades.
Read the profileThe 2S31 Vena combines a highly automated 120 mm gun-mortar with the BMP-3 chassis, extending the Nona concept into a more capable mechanized artillery system.
Read the profilePoland’s AHS Krab combines international artillery technologies into a national 155 mm self-propelled howitzer, most notably a K9-derived chassis with a turret lineage rooted in the British AS-90 program.
Read the profileThe 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV is Russia’s next-generation 152 mm self-propelled howitzer, intended to succeed or supplement the Msta-S with greater automation, range, and rate of fire.
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