The Soviet BS-3 100-mm field gun of the 1944 model is a powerful and versatile towed artillery system designed to solve a wide range of tactical tasks on the battlefield. Possessing high ballistic characteristics, the weapon could be used to combat armored mobile targets, to destroy the fortified positions and enemy firing points in the offensive zone.
The history of the creation of 100 mm bunches BS-3
The second half of the Great Patriotic War was marked by the appearance of a large number of heavy tanks Pz.Kpfw.VI "Tiger" and medium tanks Pz.Kpfw.V "Panther" as a part of enemy tank formations. The ZiS-3 divisional guns and the ZiS-2 anti-tank guns available on the equipment of Soviet artillerymen could not always successfully fight with enemy well-armored vehicles. It required a weapon with a huge punching ability, capable of hitting heavy German tanks at a long distance.
Soviet designers in search of technical solutions turned their attention to naval artillery. To create a powerful new gun as a technical base was selected naval gun B-34. The design work on the conversion of the naval gun to the land version was carried out under the direction of V.G. Grabin during the whole of 1943 in besieged Leningrad. As a result, in the spring of 1944, a new field 100-mm cannon was presented to a high state commission and adopted by the artillery units of the Red Army. The weapon went into the series under the name - BS-3 100-mm field gun of the sample of 1944, GAU index - 52-P-412.
The manufacture of powerful guns was carried out at once by two enterprises - the Leningrad Plants No. 7 and No. 232. For 7 years from 1944 to 1951, Soviet enterprises produced 3816 BS-3 guns.
Tactical and technical characteristics of the Soviet 100-mm gun BS-3
- Calculation - 6 people.
- Combat weight - 3.65 tons
- Charging - unitary.
- The initial velocity of the armor-piercing projectile is 895 m / s.
- Rate of fire: 8-10 shots / min.
- The maximum firing range - 20000 m.
- Direct shot of an armor-piercing projectile - 1040 m.
- Penetration: at a distance of 500 m. - 200 mm., At a distance of 1000 m. - 185 mm.
- The main types of ammunition: armor-piercing, armor-piercing, high-explosive fragmentation projectiles.
- The weight of the armor-piercing projectile is 30.10 kg.
- Transfer time from traveling to combat: 2-3 minutes.
- Mode of transportation: transported by AT-L, I-12, MTLB, trucks ZIS-151, Ural, KRAZ.
The Soviet field 100 mm BS-3 mm gun was actively used at the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. Soviet artillerymen inflicted the greatest damage to the German fascist tank units during the Balaton defensive operation in March 1945. The gun was delivered abroad, to the Middle East, to North Korea and to Pakistan, where it took part in local armed conflicts of the second half of the 20th century.
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