May 23rd, 1941
1. It is necessary to have four kinds of SPGs:
- SPAAGs
- Assault guns
- Tank destroyers
- Bunker busters
2. The following artillery systems will be used on SPGs:
- SPAAGs:
- 20 mm autocannon on the T-40 or GAZ-62 chassis.
- 23 mm autocannon on the T-40 or GAZ-62 chassis.
- 37 mm autocannon on the T-50 chassis.
- Assault guns
- 76 mm mod. 1927 and 1932 guns on the T-26 chassis.
- Tank destroyers:
- 57 mm ZIS-2 gun on the T-50 chassis.
- 85 mm AA gun on the T-34 chassis.
- Bunker busters:
- 152 mm Br-2 gun on the KV chassis.
3. The composition of tactical-technical characteristics for experimental SPGs and the setting of deadlines is assigned to:
- 20 mm and 23 mm guns: Brovalskiy, Kovalenko, Astrov, Lipkhart, Berezin, Shpitalniy, Volkov-Yartsev.
- 37 mm gun: Chechulin, Kovalev, Ginsburg, Kostin.
- 76 mm gun: Sorkin, Kovalev, Ginsburg.
- 57 mm gun: Sorkin, Kovalev, Astrov, Ginsburg, Grabin
- 85 mm gun: Zasosov, Agrikov, Dorokhin, Morozov.
- 152 mm gun: Komarov, Voroshilov, Kotin, Ivanov, Vishnyakov.
The tactical-technical characteristics, with deadlines for experimental prototypes, production locations, and production amounts are to be presented for discussion at a meeting with the Marshall of the Soviet Union, comrade Kulik, by 20:00 on May 24th, 1941."
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