The IS-2, named after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (JS) / Iosif Stalin (IS, in Cyrillic Ио́сиф Ста́лин "ИС") was a Soviet heavy tank, the successor of the IS-1. It was heavily armed with a 122 mm gun and well-sloped armor. It first appeared in the anime during Episode 8.
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| - The IS-2, named after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (JS) / Iosif Stalin (IS, in Cyrillic Ио́сиф Ста́лин "ИС") was a Soviet heavy tank, the successor of the IS-1. It was heavily armed with a 122 mm gun and well-sloped armor. It first appeared in the anime during Episode 8.
- The development of the Iosif Stalin series started as an attempt to further refine the Kliment Voroshilov (KV) line of heavy tanks, which proved almost invulnerable early in the war, but were notoriously under-armed and cumbersome compared to newer German developments. The IS series relied on the chassis of the proposed KV-13 "heavy medium" tank, but eventually introduced improved armour layout schemes and an 85 mm gun (hence the original design was the IS-85) - which quickly came to be considered insufficient for a heavy tank that engages targets head-on, due to the introduction of the Tiger I, and ended up used on the T-34/85. However, the larger 107 mm cannon that had undergone acceptance trials in 1941 was no longer implementable due to lack of shell production facilities. Instead, sta
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| - *3 × DT 7.62 mm machine guns
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Front: 100mm
Side: 90mm
Back: 90mm
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Side: 90mm
Back: 60mm
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| - The development of the Iosif Stalin series started as an attempt to further refine the Kliment Voroshilov (KV) line of heavy tanks, which proved almost invulnerable early in the war, but were notoriously under-armed and cumbersome compared to newer German developments. The IS series relied on the chassis of the proposed KV-13 "heavy medium" tank, but eventually introduced improved armour layout schemes and an 85 mm gun (hence the original design was the IS-85) - which quickly came to be considered insufficient for a heavy tank that engages targets head-on, due to the introduction of the Tiger I, and ended up used on the T-34/85. However, the larger 107 mm cannon that had undergone acceptance trials in 1941 was no longer implementable due to lack of shell production facilities. Instead, statistics accumulated during the Battle of Kursk showed that towed corps-level A-19 121.9 mm cannons were used against the new German armour to frightening effect (even an HE shell could rip off the front armour plate of a Panther); installation of this gun into the IS-85 turret proved trivial thanks to a common cradle design, resulting in the IS-2 - a breakthrough tank that excelled in urban assaults as well as close-range armour battles.
- The IS-2, named after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (JS) / Iosif Stalin (IS, in Cyrillic Ио́сиф Ста́лин "ИС") was a Soviet heavy tank, the successor of the IS-1. It was heavily armed with a 122 mm gun and well-sloped armor. It first appeared in the anime during Episode 8.
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