尽管在第二次世界大战期间,苏联就已经发展并生产了大量的自行火炮,但战后却暂时停止了发展,而集中精力发展牵引火炮。当时虽新装备了一些自行火炮,也只是用来作空降部队的伴随火炮和自行防空武器使用。廾五年后,苏联也改变了计划,六十年代末开始发展和试验现代化的自行榴弹炮以及配合榴弹炮作战的射击指挥和观察坦克。从1974年初开始,新的武器系统,即M1974式122毫米中型自行榴弹炮和M1973式152毫米重型自行榴弹炮顺利地装备了苏联陆军的炮兵部队。M1974式 Although during the Second World War the Soviet Union had developed and produced large numbers of self-propelled artillery pieces, the post-war period temporarily stopped its development and its energy concentrated on the development of towed artillery. Although some newly equipped self-propelled artillery at the time was only used as an accompanying artillery and self-defense air defense weapon for airborne troops. Five years later, the Soviet Union also changed its plan. In the late 1960s, it began to develop and test modern self-propelled howitzers and firing command and observation tanks with howitzers. Beginning in early 1974, the new weapons system, the M1974 122-mm medium-sized self-propelled howitz and the M1973-type 152-mm self-propelled howitzer, were well equipped with Soviet Army artillery units. M1974 style