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From Wikipedia about Casemate:
"During World War II, most purpose-built German Wehrmacht and Soviet Red Army tank destroyers and self-propelled guns (like the Wehrmacht's Sturmgeschütz III) essentially had turretless, armored steel casemates mounted onto (or built integrally into) conventional main battle tank chassis to carry heavier, forward firing guns—the German vehicles were dubbed Jagdpanzer and Panzerjäger respectively, while their Soviet counterparts all bore an "SU-" or "ISU-" prefix, with the "SU-" prefix an abbreviation for Samokhodnaya Ustanovka in Russian, or "self-propelled installation" in their designations, much like the U.S. Army's designation for self-propelled artillery, and American tank destroyers, as a "Gun Motor Carriage""
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