Nevertheless, its cheap cost and easy construction (plus its giant gun) made the SU-152 one of the best tank destroyers of the war, as the Soviets could make so many of them to overwhelm the enemy ...

The powerful tank destroyer and its later variants continued ... during the Stalingrad counteroffensive, thus creating the SU-152 from the KV-1S chassis. Equipped with a 152-millimeter howitzer ...