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Iosif Stalin tank
IS-2 model 1943 and IS-3 at the Great Patriotic War Museum, Minsk, Belarus
Type
Heavy tank
Place of origin
Soviet Union
Service history
Used by
Soviet Union China Cuba Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Egypt Poland North Korea
Wars
World War II
Korean War
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Six-Day War
Prague Spring
1991-1992 South Ossetia War
War in Donbas[1]
Production history
Designer
Zhozef Kotin Nikolay Dukhov
Designed
1943 (IS-2)
1944 (IS-3)
1944–45 (IS-4)
Manufacturer
Kirov Factory, UZTM
Unit cost
IS-2: 264,400 rubles[2]
Produced
1943–44 (IS-1)
1944–45 (IS-2)
1945–47 (IS-3)
1947–49 (IS-4)
No. built
207 (IS-1)[3]
3,854 (IS-2)
2,311 (IS-3)
250 (IS-4)
6 (IS-7)(prototypes)[4]
Specifications (IS-2 Model 1944[6])
Mass
46 tonnes (51 short tons; 45 long tons)
Length
9.90 m (32 ft 6 in)
Width
3.09 m (10 ft 2 in)
Height
2.73 m (8 ft 11 in)
Crew
4
Armor
IS-2 Model 1943: Hull front: 120 mm Lower glacis: 100 mm at 30° angle Turret front: 100 mm (rounded) Mantlet: 155 mm (rounded) Hull side: 90–130 mm at 9-25° Turret side: 90 mm at 20° angle.
Main armament
D-25T 122 mm gun (28 rounds)
Secondary armament
1×DShK, 3×DT (2,079 rounds)
Engine
12-cyl. diesel model V-2 600 hp (450 kW)
Power/weight
13 hp/tonne
Suspension
torsion bar
Fuel capacity
820 L (180 imp gal; 220 US gal)
Operational range
Road: 240 km (150 mi) Cross-country: 180 km (110 mi) [5]
Maximum speed
37 km/h (23 mph)
The IS tanks (Russian: ИС) were a series of heavy tanks developed as a successor to the KV-series by the Soviet Union during World War II. The IS acronym is the anglicized initialism of Joseph Stalin (Ио́сиф Ста́лин, Iosif Stalin). The heavy tanks were designed as a response to the capture of a German Tiger I in 1943.[7] They were mainly designed as breakthrough tanks, firing a heavy high-explosive shell that was useful against entrenchments and bunkers. The IS-2 went into service in April 1944 and was used as a spearhead by the Red Army in the final stage of the Battle of Berlin. The IS-3 served on the Chinese-Soviet border, the Hungarian Revolution, the Prague Spring and on both sides of the Six-Day War. The series eventually culminated in the T-10 heavy tank.
^Peck, Michael (2 July 2014). "The Ukrainian Rebels' New Weapon Is a World War II Tank". War is Boring. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
^"Себестоимость некоторых типов советских танков по годам".
^"IS-1 total production". Archived from the original on 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
^Nicholas Moran. "Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: IS-7 Part 2". Youtube. World of Tanks North America. Archived from the original on 2021-11-17.
^ Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two (Steven J. Zaloga, James Grandsen) page 176.
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