ASU57 Russian Airborne STUG Turretless Light Tanks @ 300mph

One army unit that did understand WW2's aftermath properly, was the Russian (Former Soviet Union) Airborne. Though the VDV Paratroops saved their nation by spoiling the belated Germans assault on Moscow by direct parachute drops into enemy formations along with T-60 light tank attacks, they didn't in WW2 get to do large-scale Airborne operations as Tuchayevsky wanted to by air-mech means. Stalin backed Hitler hoping he'd attack the West which he did--but corrupt American (Prescott Bush) and British bankers backed Hitler hoping he'd attack Stalin--which he did--after first pushing the Allies out of Western Europe in 1940. A marriage of convenience between the Allies and the Russians took place to kill the Hitler "frankenstein" we both created to do our hoped-for dirty work. The ideal open terrain for both Airborne operations and tanks is in Russia; yet Stalin murdered his Airborne warfare expert Tuchayevsky in a purge before WW2 and almost lost Russia to the Germans because of the resulting military incompetence. Had Hitler befriended anti-Stalin Russians as he went along, he'd have probably won WW2.

After WW2, contemplating an offensive drive westward against NATO and General Gavin's tactical nukes:

http://www.combatreform.com/warandpeaceinthespaceage.htm

...the Russians realized that Airborne forces could no longer foot-slog and needed their own tracked armored fighting vehicles to advance in the face of nuclear-devastated areas with absolute cross-country mobility, but in the early 1950s were handicapped by steel being too heavy to fully enclose an infantry squad and be light enough to be cross-country mobile much less by air-transportable.

http://www.geocities.com/armorhistory/infantrytanks.htm

What they could do was build an open-topped, mini-STUG copy of the German Sturmgeshutz concept with a semi-fixed gun in the hull without a turret to save weight to be air-transportable--exactly---what the American and British Airborne should have done in WW2 by mounting at least a 6-pounder (57mm) anti-tank gun on a Bren gun or Tetrarch or Harry Hopkins light tank chassis and Hamilcar glider-landed them into Arnhem to punch through to reinforce LTC Frost's battalion at the bridge and kill even German Tiger heavy tanks when they appeared. With a bridgehead across the Rhine in September 1944, WW2 ends 6 months sooner without Russians getting to Berlin at all--no Battle of the Bulge casualties, no Iron Curtain Soviet domination for 45 years. Big strategic consequences for not having a few little light tanks, huh?

http://www.combatreform.com/airbornetanksnoexcuse.htm

But a 57mm gun on an open-topped tracked chassis would be a Russian ASU-57, wouldn't it?

http://www.combatreform.com/groundvehiclephotos.htm

P.S. #1: ASU-57s in 1977 were the world's first tanks to be VTOL air-meched by helicopters to defeat the Ethiopians in East Africa. We could have and should have had such mini-STUGs at LZ X-Ray in 1965. Why the M56 Scorpion 90mm mini-STUG or the M50 Ontos 6 x 106mm RR mini-STUG was not utilized by the air-mobile units by either C-130 parachute airdrop or CH-54 SkyCrane VTOL airland shows their absurd foot slogging infantry narcissist bias that hundreds of men paid for with their lives.

http://www.geocities.com/armorhistory/airassaulttanksnoexcuse.htm

P.S. #2: note the Paras exit deploying stabilizing drogue chutes BACK IN THE 1950s they can jump twice as fast as us (300 mph) lower (200 feet) or higher (up to 12, 000 feet); American dope-on-a-rope is WAY BEHIND the Russians!

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The Russians are pretty impressive here!