Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: IS-7 Part 1

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[@adamgrog9614]

perhaps rear facing mgs are meant to shoot conscripts who arent advancing enthusiastically enough.

[@daaaaaaaaaaavid]

lol

[@TheGodParticle]

Too funny, but that sort of thing happened many times.

[@brandinricardo9810]

Loool

[@AndreasConfirmed]

Only in Holywood movies! Actually in real live it was a lil bit different.

[@sirxavior1583]

Maybe to protect the rear of the tank from enemy infantry trying to take pot shots at the back of the tank. I'm willing to bet a Molotov Cocktail thrown at the rear engine bay would easily disable this tank. So I'm betting they put the machine guns to protect the tank from that.

[@Jesses001]

It must had been funny if they tried to use all 4 external machine guns at the same time. The driver would be rocking the tank back and forth trying to spray rounds in as well as suddenly breaking and accelerating trying to get the elevation correct, while the gunner and commanders try to move the turret arguing about where the shots are going as they try to look though the periscopes while the tank is bouncing around, haha.

[@Lolwutfordawin]

Some one has got to make an animation of that! :P

[@Neuttah]

Lolwutfordawin Call Ranzar, we have material for him! :D

[@facenoise465]

Lolololo I cant stop laughing

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

Oh that'd be hilarious

[@jonmeray713]

First thing i imagined and came to write,only to be beaten 5 years earlier

[@dannya1854]

I can't believe no one has suggested those machine guns were used to discourage enemies from climbing the tank. Many Soviet tanks used to have a machine gun on the back of their turrets for this reason.

[@nazca247]

Or for suppressing fire on fortifications if minimal infantry support

[@TheGalacticEmperorOfLabels]

The music: Dowdowdowdowdow diddidderdearderderder. Repeat 1,000 times.

[@SDeww]

in russia we make museum to store tanks, but we do not make any lights. when camara crew come bring own lights!.

[@comeonmate3743]

The goverment won't spend money for lights

[@novaimperator1526]

S Dew In Russia lights overrated XD lol

[@cubeeffect5612]

So accurate accent

[@thewanderer7738]

in soviet Russia you don't make museum to store tanks. tanks make museum to store you

[@anotherrandomtexan25]

S Dew in Russia tanks store you!

[@jackguo380]

Wow that machine gun on the turret looks even more ridiculous IRL... But please... the IS 7 needs its propeller hat back. Its not a IS 7 without it.

[@DennisWilliams-nf2gn]

The machine guns was only used to keep enemy soldiers away from the tank, a common practice by soldiers from any army was to throw grenades or explosives into a hatch to kill the crew or fire RPGs at it since the tank cannot engage any threat that was close to it with its main gun.

[@Legitpenguins99]

The Soviets actually had dedicated anti tank units that specialized in a close combat anti tank role. They mostly used standard or available infantry equipment to show the infantry they could fight back (or propaganda units if you want to look at it that way, they were never that effective compared to more conventional anti tank guns)

[@beardo52]

From the front, the IS-7 looks like a Storm Troopers Helmet.

[@darktronics9901]

Kinda

[@mercoid]

beardo52 ....the FICTIONAL storm trooper helmet looks similar to the front of this REAL tank which far predates the conception of the ridiculous cartoon like storm trooper character.

[@REX-gq6ur]

wooooo(mercoid)ooooosh~ Hear something pass by? Hope its not the joke.

[@startingbark0356]

The storm trooper helmet is based on the is-7

[@Windows_XP_2005]

Nah

[@MrDiredemon]

He said "MORE DAKKA!!" He's into 40 k the legend ...:)

[@Donnerbalken28]

MrDiredemon But, Boss! Why'z da tank green, not red? Ev'ry Ork knows, Red goes fasta!

[@l13e6o16n15]

+Magic Medic we'z got rear pointin dakka for'z dat

[@MrDiredemon]

+Otto Laiho YER ................ OR SOMEFINK LIKE DAT .............. U SMART FOR A PAINBOY :)

[@MrDiredemon]

+Otto Laiho WELL LAD ITS EEZY TO MAKE A COCKUP YOUZE BOTH 'AS SPANNAHS RIGHT ;)

[@MrRenegadeshinobi]

FOR THE GOD-EMPORER!!!

[@SaltySeabisc]

"In the spirit of more Dakka..." waitwhut? a WH40K reference?

[@TheTuberKnownAsMe]

Oi boss! Dem humies got more dakka den us boyz got. We gots to get dem gretchins to work puttin more shootas on dem lootah humie tanks

[@SaltySeabisc]

TheTuberKnownAsMe I can think of 1 guy who does not need any more dakka, in the entire universe . his name, is Ollanius Pius. Enough has been said.

[@JeReMyMeSsNeR]

TheTuberKnownAsMe lol just lol you made my day XD

[@KellPerEX]

Ther'z aint sutch think az enoughff DAKKA

[@TheTuberKnownAsMe]

KellPerEX We show dem humies wots wot wiv deze ere new shootas! WAAAAGH!

[@nikolakaravida9670]

Incredible just how ahead of its time the IS7 was.

[@KingCliveThe17th]

I don't play WoT, but I really like the design of the IS-7 :) It's a shame it was never used.

[@jayasi1223]

alot of people that want's to know the power of this tank, you need to play wot.

[@unknownaccount9605]

@@jayasi1223 dont play is7 in wotb, its so unrealistic.

[@camerondurham3923]

@@unknownaccount9605 They just buffed it into a Russian murder machine do imma still play it

[@Juhnaaa]

What does WoT have to do with anything 😂

[@shinkreytpuylap]

**Laughs in Jageroo ammoracking IS-7**

[@OperatorHark]

"We need more room for vodka, Glorious Stalin." "THEN MAKE EVERYTHING WITHIN THE TURRET AND HULL VODKA!" "But where are we going to put the machine guns?!" True story.

[@mrOL100]

more still need balalaika and tame bear

[@Donnerbalken28]

TheLegitPlay You know that the british Challenger 2 actually has small tea kitchen? ;)

[@romangavrilov930]

+Magic Medic And the TOG.

[@ValentineC137]

+Roman Gavrilov the tog is a moving tea party

[@alfiesolomons4523]

K&AGamers was yuo talkin to my komrade?

[@McRocket]

Very informative and this guy is really funny.

[@tomstokoe5660]

The rear-facing machine guns might've been for keeping infantry from climbing onto the tank like those turret rear machine guns other russian heavy tanks had but with twice as much firepower.

[@HankLoremonger]

Also, did anyone else catch that right after he said "More dakka", he said "metal boxes" XD

[@pantherace1000]

I know

[@Legitpenguins99]

MEHTUL BAWKSES DA COWARDZ DA FEWLZ

[@statefarm8385]

Fun fact the reason the is7 wasn’t really produced was because it weighed 65 tons and back then they had a weight limit for a tank and the is7 passed that limit by almost 10 tons

[@giovannifoulmouth7205]

Yeah it was the weight limit on Soviet railways, they transport tanks from factories on trains bc they can't drive them for thousands of kms to where they're needed.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

The best tank ever produced!!!!

[@kebertxela941]

lol

[@williamdeloach8613]

I remember watching this when it came out, in a day this episode turns 5 years old, I feel old

[@tomaspagni7970]

do the t95 please, I need to look the inside of that monster

[@roastedlights6836]

It's going to be pretty hard to get a close-up look of that monster of a tank. It's currently awaiting display at Fort Benning, Georgia. (As of 2011)

[@Mattebubben]

The Rear mounted guns on the turret could probably be used to prevent enemy infantry from getting up on the rear of the tank. Since turning the turret and Shooting them would be an easy way to clearing any infantry trying to climb ontop of the tank.

[@Tapp.dergon]

YES! Thank you Chieftain for doing this! I was so looking forward to this tank!

[@AldoSchmedack]

Me too!

[@SpudsMcHaggis]

Thanks Chief. Can't wait to see inside the beast!

[@dimon007007]

love it "somewhere over there"

[@jimhenry1262]

I saw one of these Stalin 3's take 7 or 8 rounds of 105mm ap rounds on the front glacis and the turret. They bounced off! This tank was designed in the mid 1940'S! Who else but the Russians!

[@michaelhayes4231]

Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Belorussians, Kazakhs, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Tajiks, Georgians, Moldavians, Lithuanians, Turkmen, Kirgiz, Latvians, Estonians, Abkhaz, Adyghes, Aleuts, Assyrians, Avars, Bashkirs, Bulgars, Buryats, Chechens, Chinese, Chuvash, Cossacks, Evenks, Finns, Gagauz, (Volga and other) Germans, Greeks, Hungarians, Ingushes, Inuit, Jews, Kalmyks, Karakalpaks, Karelians, Kets, Koreans, Lezgins, Maris, Mongols, Mordvins, Nenetses, Ossetians, Poles, Roma, Romanians, Tats, Tatars, Tuvans, Udmurts, and Yakuts as they were also nationalities and/or ethnic groups of the Soviet Union who built this tank

[@Ryzenger]

@@michaelhayes4231 wat da Koreans doin in Russia

[@michaelhayes4231]

@@Ryzenger they are called Koryo-saram and there are 500,000 of them in the former Soviet Union.

[@Ryzenger]

@@michaelhayes4231 ok never knew that

[@epicjulian99]

I never knew the IS-7 existed....

[@epicjulian99]

I don't do research or lookup alot of russian tanks :P

[@user-jm3ou1hg3q]

Epic Julian hahahaha realy never saw it in battle??

[@epicjulian99]

ok

[@Mr.McWatson]

***** even more didnt...

[@Mr.McWatson]

***** sure. But I think the majority are blueprint or borderline fictional. Take tier ten for example. I think there is 4 vehicles there that existed at all.

[@battlefatigue7476]

Big, bad & Beautiful! I just love the IS-7.

[@wvbygraceofgod5508]

I could never get tired of watching this Inside the Hatch.

[@Zeravnos]

"In the spirit of More Dakka..." I love you, Chieftain.

[@hellcat1609]

"In the spirit of more dakka", now you're speaking my langage XD

[@mcwilliamshowell236]

YES BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

[@OrangeAmped]

Hooray more Inside the Chieftain's Hatch!

[@Nikoxion]

Chieftain + IS-7 review? O'BOY! :D

[@blackwolf671]

Heard him say "more dakka", bumped this up from a like to a fav.

[@liamleith8900]

Yes!!! An IS-7 review, yay thanks!!!!!!

[@LtAce150]

Oh cool a warhammer 40k reference 7:30

[@la6335]

Russian tonk no need fuel. Russian tonk have vodka

[@kapjoteh]

TAHK

[@totallyaploy1824]

Yes

[@doniramdhan8975]

@@Hgenlsk4005 badcott btw tau sebutan tank di german? tolol

[@Hgenlsk4005]

@@doniramdhan8975 Panzer goblok

[@BlackAdder1970]

What the HELL is a "Tonk"?

[@samrussell4065]

I suspect the designing went like this: after research, the team presented Stalin with a supremely effective tank-killer, capable of defeating any tank on the planet. He- a novice with overwhelming power- asked why a tank-killer had no machineguns. The designers then looked at each other... "Okay... You're the Boss..."

[@TNX255]

These Chieftain's hatch videos are awesome. Just keep them coming, there are plenty of AFV's in museums around the world that you can review after everything at Kubinka is done =)

[@unclebillybob1359]

my favorite tank ever.

[@toastyroastyman8911]

The back machine guns were a attempt to keep tank killing infantry squads from climbing on the tank from behind and destroying it. The kv1 also had a machine gun in the back of the turret I believe. The Japanese equipped some of their tanks with back firing machine guns too. Seriously you were not aware of this chief ? The German Porsche Elephant is a good example of what happens when you have no secondary armament. It was hunted like a dog by Russian infantry when the Germans attempted to use it as a primary break through tank at Kursk. Were all these machine guns needed on this tank? Certainly not but more is better then none or just one in the turret. There were many instances of german tank drivers having to "hose down" the back sides of their own lead panzers with their front machine guns. Even HE was used fired on the back of their own tanks when they ran out of MG/a to drive off Russian tank hunter squads jumping on the back of lead element armor. I imagine this was a real worry to the designers that's why all the machine guns. Oh and one more thing. The did a pretty wise thing IMO about NOT cutting into the front plate of this tank for a machine gun port that would certainly weaken it's armor. It would have been better to fix a remote machine gun for the driver IMO.

[@basiaromanovski458]

But those on IS-7 (Execpt for anti air one) is FIXED. Not rotatable. No elevation or depression at all. I think infantry is sure to avoid the guns and climb on.

[@jonmeray713]

What kinda idiot gets killed by fixed guns

[@AldoSchmedack]

Yeah but ball mounts can be flung back into the tank when a tank round hits it thus killing the crew. Fixed or not its a gun and its not gonna get you killed.

[@angus_white]

MORE DAKKA!

[@giovannguillette306]

You guys are awesome.keep up the good updates for world of tanks blitz. :-)

[@ironworld9822]

Chief I think that those fixed machine gun positions were basically defensive measures. If you notice the forward, fixed position MGs are located towards the rear, so as to cover the entire side length of the tank against Infantry.. who are trying to possibly climb up onto the tank or place explosives on it etc. I do not believe that they were intended for medium or long range usage.

[@jebadiahkerman7846]

MOAR DAKKA!!

[@mrdydy1990]

Is it me or the lower plate of the IS7 looks incredibly armored and we'll angled. How is it a weak spot Wargaming?

[@SR-uz2lt]

Beautiful

[@dragonfe8226]

Look at the SWAG is-7 Lit🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jaredw9171]

MOAR DAKKA. Best line ever.

[@ryouichisan]

Finally IS-7. My Xmas gift!

[@BenAndCharlieTV]

[@tomnoack9593]

I love this guy!

[@iannordin5250]

The IS is the most tank looking tank to have ever tanked

[@828enigma6]

Obsolete by today's standards, it was still one hell of a tank. Russians truely know how to build tanks.

[@michaelhayes4231]

-Russians- Citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

[@randyhavard6084]

It does look like a bit of a beast

[@mikebreakwell3909]

More Dakka! Love the 40k reference

[@armadussteel2489]

We need more machine guns!!!! We MUST beat the M3-lee with our machine gun count

[@vandansonkar7819]

Laughs in m2

[@terranempire2]

I am Convinced by this tank and the BMP3 that the Russians have from time to time Outsourced armored vehicle design to Games Workshop.

[@frealms]

Careful with them elbows mate! Thanks for the vid!

[@teemumyyrylainen9247]

I got the idea of the driver operated mg's to be used , when enemy is trying to run up to the tank and throw molotov cocktail or some magnetic shaped charge etc. on the tank.. the driver could fire all mg's at once, while turning the tanks on spot as fast as it can rotate 360's .. it would spit out on 4 mg's + if gunner decides to use his aswell. .. One could think that the opposing force would hit the dirt and try to hunker for cover instead of running on tank to plant their explosives etc.. At least i would stop on my tracks and think something else or try later again.

[@Sha.ll0w]

"Yak tigr" Dat accent tho

[@sirmoke9646]

Not an accent. Its the proper german pronunciation. Tiger is spelled the same in english and german.

[@nightmareinfernus7181]

shalol It's the German word of jagdtiger.

[@eltontv6002]

Sir Moke no thats false. its spelled jagd tiger but with a i instead of the spelled ei

[@smartlp3010]

ah no he didnt pronounced it the english was. He pronounced it right the way we Germans say it.

[@smolboi7789]

I wonder what would happen if it was completed before the war and has produced 2000 of them

[@foxrotneinnein1968]

It will become a nightmare for Tiger l and Tiger ll

[@Zouldari]

i have w8ed a LONG time for this

[@nonamenolastname8600]

8:35 THIS gun only to (in the museum) show, however orginally it can be lowered and can be controlled without going to top of the tank, however the is-7 nearly unfinished or had break down issues. Mark my words

[@chinmaylimaye5329]

1:56 "The mantlet, about 35" okk that's nice "about 35 cm" wait what😳

[@Kalashnikov413]

that's hella thick

[@kremit5084]

Thiccc Three C’s

[@karmaggedon8514]

Stronk russian engineering! :)

[@mdarius9661]

+Luis Cayetano thats how you spell stromg when you are derping with russians Example: Russian tenk very stronk because we heve the sekrit dokumints xaxaxaxaxaxa))))

[@mdarius9661]

+Luis Cayetano btw dunno why but your family name sounds so Phlippinized

[@emukiddo4768]

Love this tank

[@zcplayer1]

Dosen't matter what kind tank, but love to see how Chieftain to explain it GJ WG

[@drxym]

Imagine how much more watchable this series would be without that annoying rock dirge playing continuously in the background.

[@dogcrucifixion4622]

I KNOW

[@surferofthesynthwaves4710]

I like it

[@RKarmaKill]

And the annoying host

[@RKarmaKill]

@Ivan The evil not really, I was having a bad day

[@doctorsquirts3643]

STFU pussies, enjoy the free content. Buncha Karen's complaining.

[@sgtwardaddy9889]

in the spirit of More Dakka!

[@casper_duhh990]

Just love it when he talks about driver operated mgs :'D

[@dahijitna]

You guys do a great job and your tank talk is very interesting. Thanks for producing in English so we can focus on the subject matter, not text.

[@nemanjalukic6087]

"more daakaa" 😂 i love it...

[@messikluza]

Gdzie są napisy po Polsku co?

[@AndreHerrmann1202]

Awesome Video as always.

[@iannordin5250]

The IS 7 is the most tank looking tank to have ever been developed

[@Masterofworlds22]

Why is the barrel lifted? Is it to stop people from walking into it? What about during a parade? For driver?

[@chimpo34]

the barrel is lifted because if the tank were to go down a steep slope the gun wouldnt dig into the ground infront of it, not sure why lifted when stationary tho, probs to stop people from smacking their heads as u mentioned

[@Masterofworlds22]

thanks for the clarification.

[@kuhaku9587]

***** Everything those person said is true, but there is also an another reason, well I think. It's like a infantry soldier pointing the gun on the ground, it tell that it won't fire, well it might fire but it's like a " safe ". In war tank always carry a shell inside the gun, just in case, so they lift the gun to make sure it if they do something wrong the shell will just fly in the air and land somewhere else... which in that case you don't mention it and hope nothing bad happenned the other side uhuh. So I supose even if there isn't any ammunition in it, they still keep the gun lifted just to say " hey it won't fire at you, it's in rest "

[@unclebillybob1359]

Real answer, the barrels were lifted so storage would be easier, lifting it up would allow the tanks in front to move closer together, thus allowing for more space for more tanks.

[@01Bouwhuis]

Fallus symbol.. even on parade ...

[@GabelhelmSogarbraten]

so lower plate is only 12cm... interesting

[@Apollyion]

Yeah but it's angeled so in practice you would have to penetrate a lot more

[@GabelhelmSogarbraten]

One Man Army i said that because in wot its 15cm thickness

[@sassythesasquatch1571]

@@GabelhelmSogarbraten russian bias

[@SoulAss4ssin]

i need inside IS7 ep 2 >,< i have been checking the channel every day like a little boy on xmas haha

[@thenappannarayanan8776]

cool tank old man

[@clothar23]

Well protected..until you accidentally angle that pike nose and a Chaffe puts a round through your upper glacis.

[@daimster0130]

arty arty

[@thisghy8126]

That upper glacis is 150mm and heavily angled... there's not really anything in ww2 that could penitrate that armor. It's quite ludicrous actually

[@misterharveyd5594]

Bruuuuh or a j panther wrecking you from 2 miles away

[@jorgewilson2397]

Harvey D JPanther can't pen this. I guess, only tank destroyers can do this in.

[@01Bouwhuis]

@@misterharveyd5594 75 mmhigh velocity vs 128mm . It stops both .....

[@kirilltristan694]

A beast of a tank irl . Thanks for the review.

[@jerryderat4378]

It's How he manage to Keep his cool. 4:14

[@WalkaCrookedLine]

I'm shaking my head wondering what could be dumber than hull mounted external machineguns. Then Chieftain points out the rear-firing external machineguns.

[@marilicious358]

What is stowage

[@romangavrilov930]

Where you can keep stuff I guess. Or maybe ammo stowage.

[@daaaaaaaaaaavid]

others would call it storage

Awesome. thanks

[@rubenalmonte9307]

Haha best video yet! I loved it! :P

[@Starmine1231]

vote IS-7 for the tank with the most dakka

[@peterson7082]

Or A7V or the M2 Medium

[@NUK3B0YHD]

Cmon show us some German tanks which were in actually in service like the Panther, a Panzer 4, the Stug or something like that! Not the Maus or the Pz.Sfl V!

[@SoundAndFuryy]

You do realize there is one Panther in the world and it's somewhere in the USA, right? You can make videos about dozens of vechiles in Kubinka, aranging everything and then travelling thousands of kilometres for a 10 min video about Panther is kind of expensive you know.

[@SoundAndFuryy]

***** where do you get this info from? and where are they?

[@THEWWIICOLLECTOR1941]

Y’all need to make a video on the only SU-100Y

[@zebradun7407]

A real dragon when everything is shooting.

[@username3788]

Im here cuz of that gay ass summer event

[@yurihoo]

Operation S.U.F.F.E.R

[@ryanglitcherrrr]

No offence but look at his upper lip when he talks...lol XD

[@kennymilne6125]

Really like the background music

[@gerut-gerutsenangin1701]

is-7 totally beast!

[@omriarielly1]

Israeli's love machine guns they put them on everything? 5:16 ??? as an Israeli i have no idea what you talk about... still nice video

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

omri arielly You would see additional MGs on almost anything the Israelis had for many decades. Even a .50 cal coax mounted externally on an M109 SPG. And the M5 half-track was a case of "Give everyone a .50 cal or a .30 cal"

[@omriarielly1]

TheChieftainWoT well when you put it that way... haha although i think this fashion is a bit over for example the merkava 4 and the Namer basically only have one .50 cal and one 7.62 machine gun

[@TheGhostTrollekdejvu]

Well they do love to kill innocent civilans.

[@omriarielly1]

TheGhostTrollek dejvu you are absolutely right! That is what get our motor runnning in the morning killing "innocents"

[@TheGhostTrollekdejvu]

omri arielly I know that I'm absolutely, israhell shall be brought down to its knees, no more bullshit, that they keep telling people.

[@trakaisazisyo]

Finally IS-7!

[@StirbMensch]

What about Part 2?! We really want to see the insides of the bloody thing!

[@sleestalk]

THE AMOUNT OF STICK WELDING That was done in the front portion is agregeous to say the very least

[@bobmano66]

Three co axial mounted machine guns/cannons and the machine gun on top of the turret was controlled from within the tank, so there were other options for independent aiming of mg guns without the driver having to rock the tank back n forth. There was no western tank from the 40's 50's or 60's that could stop this machine but it was expensive and way too heavy to be transported on the then flatbed rail cars.