Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: ISU-152, Episode 2

Nicholas Moran continues his tour of the Soviet ISU-152 assault gun. In Part 2, he'll look inside the famous vehicle. How much does a 152 mm shell weigh? How was the driver positioned? Where is a speedometer in the ISU-152? You will find answers to these and other questions in the new episode of the "Inside the Chieftain's Hatch". Let's watch!
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[@Liamv4696]

imagine if you were in the museum and weren't aware they were filming inside the tank, youre standing infront of a 152mm howitzer with your family, and it just starts slowly traversing towards you...

[@foughtwolf]

Liamv4696 "Hey kid is that cotton Candy?"

[@normanchow9245]

gun aims down...

[@Galacalactus]

Liamv4696 I thought the same thing!

[@wyatt2437]

doesnt need to aim down just it firing is enough to turn them into paste

[@falke_blade9341]

Mommy why is the fridge moving.

[@derkaiser9881]

Could you imagine an ISU-152 loader in any other tank? Put 'em in a T34-85 and the enemy tanks would think they've got an auto cannon. I bet those loaders were shredded beyond belief.

[@rubberwoody]

It took 30 seconds to load a shell

[@usssouthdakota5541]

​@@rubberwoodyyes, but an ISU-152 sheel weighs 40kg, while an 85mm sheel rph weight like 5-20 kg at most, imagine a loader who normally messes around with 40kg shells loading 5kg shells

[@AKUJIVALDO]

​@usssouthdakota5541 85mm shell 5kg ROFL

[@user-rh3to9cu4x]

The speedometer is there for the commander to navigate(measure distances they have traveled). For example, if he gets the order to advance 35 kilometers to the West. So, if they are going 15km/h, he will need to travel for about 2 hours and 20 minutes to get there. He would, of course, look for the changes in speed and adjust if needed.

[@DarkSlayer010]

Гаврило Принцип Russians only had one command: To Berlin! And don’t stop. 😂😜😆

[@Nightlurk]

Enemy tractor at 12 o' clock. Fire when ready!

[@n00btotale]

*Leichttraktor*

[@necolombus5949]

Großträktor

[@nathaniel1207]

*promptly vaporizes tractor*

[@eddieistic]

Xddd

[@rembramlastname3631]

"That one bounced!"

[@Spyronite913]

“It had a 6 inch gun“ Best argument ever x)

[@tigercat418]

Stirntiger

[@AKUJIVALDO]

@@tigercat418 SturmTiger...

[@WellWisdom.]

Because size does matter.

[@FearlessLeader2001]

I’m surprised by how comfortable this tank probably was for the crew, especially when you look at the M4, M10, and Churchill tanks with it.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Soviet tanker only 5 feed

[@jb76489]

This is not a tank

[@FearlessLeader2001]

@@jb76489 it's got tracks and armor, pedant.

[@Colinke]

6:16 enemy spotted!

[@lucasbello117]

I thought the same haha! FIRE HE TO THAT BASTARD!! lol

[@Colinke]

lucasbello117 That one bounced!

[@smasher1328]

YouLin Ke How can HE bounce -.-?

[@Colinke]

White Unicorn Tractor's front hull is 300mm thick.

[@theExtr3meGam3r]

YouLin Ke i don't think you understand. regardless of the Armour thickness HE explodes on impact.....

[@WildBillCox13]

If that gun had just a smidge bigger bore you wouldn't need an escape hatch-you could just shimmy out the barrel.

[@tyler_bt3326]

You could in the sturmtiger xD

[@willabe566]

Shimmy shammy shimmy shammy shimmay!

[@bgoth1435]

It had separate propellent, you could use that like an injector seat for an extra quick escape!

[@mrfunnybees]

6:16 enemy tractor spotted Load HE and fire for effect, lol that would just oblirerate that tractor and would make nice fire.

[@Liamv4696]

"It's not the driver's hatch, it's the front left hatch" How Communist is that xD ITS NOT YOURS, IT'S EVERYONES!

[@yanuchiuchiha2210]

you do realise that that hatch is shared between the driver and loader, right?

[@blazingsniper2611]

Yanuchi Uchiha the loader has his own hatch

[@clawrence034]

Seize the means of egress

[@a_random_tank_152mm7]

Commie common hatch

[@Impreza_S206]

In America：U OWN STUFF IN SOVIET UNION：STUFF OWNS U COMRADE ！

[@MrBeard17]

1:29 "things you want it to go inside before it goes boom" ... giggety

[@justforever96]

Yeah, I don't see the low ammo capacity as a flaw. People want to think of this thing as a big beastly tank killer roaming the battlefield, blasting enemy tanks apart, but it's not. It's actually just a self-propelled artillery piece, which is armored enough to withstand enemy fire if it needs to get close to destroy a target. On a typical artillery gun, they don't carry all their ammo around strapped to the gun carriage. They might have a dozen rounds or so in a limber, but mostly they rely on having ammo vehicles to bring them up more ammo. Firing a dozen rounds from a large artillery piece is a big deal. The average piece averages maybe 5 or 6 shells per day. You want to make them count. The idea behind the ISU-152 is to identify a target, and send 2 or 3 ISUs in to engage it and destroy it. If you can't destroy it with the 40 or 60 rounds between them, then it's time to fall back and rethink your approach. If you are in battle and you somehow manage to use all 23 huge rounds up on 23 appropriate targets, you've had a successful day anyway, and it's time to send the depleted vehicle to the rear to restock on ammo. Often they would be set up just like any other artillery piece, firing indirect. That's why the ISU and SU )both 152 and 122) carried typical artillery bearing stakes. You'd park your battery of ISUs in a nice protected place, and set the stakes up in front of each marking bearings for firing coordinates. Then you'd use them like any other artillery piece, firing by coordinates by aiming at the appropriate bearing between the appropriate stakes, and dialling in the elevation on the indirect firing sight. Just like any artillery piece, the ammo would be brought to you as you used it. This was the most common employment for these guns. They were just more mobile artillery pieces that protected their gunners from counterbattery fire better than normal pieces did. They were capable of being moved right up to the front line to engage targets in an assault, but this was less common. They were not sent out to range around the battlefield blasting stuff. Real warfare doesn't much resemble gameplay in WOT, sorry to say. So instead of comparing it with "other tanks" and saying how much ammo it lacks, it's better to compare it to other artillery pieces, and say how great it was that it's not only self mobile and doesn't need to be hooked to a truck or horses, but it also provides a mobile bunker to protect the gun crew, AND it carries around enough ammo with it for a decent typical day of engaging targets. Not bad. It's much like Stugs and other machines like them: everyone is always comparing them to tanks and complaining about how badly they stack up. They say they aren't protected well enough, etc. But in reality, they are just mobile AT guns. If crews can go out with totally unprotected artillery pieces and destroy tanks with them (AT guns were the real killers of tanks in WW2), then a self-propelled, armored AT gun is an IMPROVEMENT. It's not a tank, so stop comparing them. If most AT gun crews managed to survive in spite of having no armor protection at all, and needing to call in horses or trucks to hook up and tow them away under fire, then surely a Stug is perfectly sufficient.

[@swattyboiplays]

read the entire thing, no regrets

[@_b_x_b_1063]

They almost always fired direct fire

[@taistelusammakko5088]

​@@_b_x_b_1063because its an assault gun

[@justforever96]

​@@swattyboiplayshey thanks. I get bored, I end up writing pointless essays. But I like to think sometimes they are useful to someone.

[@sissonsk]

I enjoy getting inside one of these pieces of history but I rarely know what I'm looking at. This series fills in those gaps and are actually better than personally climbing in a tank.

[@jimcameron9848]

A 40 kilo round to load and a fuel tank on the front left. The crew surely had to have had their eardrums shattered with the blast percussion. The shock waves would jar your innards. Excellent video.

[@vulture3318]

+Jim Cameron they had ear plugs thats why the commander yelled

[@tyler_bt3326]

Well you aren't gonna be too badly affected really. All the bast energy is directed away from the crew, towards the enemy. The worst you would get is the vibration throughout the tank as the howitzer fires

[@Rampster27]

am i the only one who if i owned one of these tanks, i would literally live in it, i mean i would put a tv in there, a computer, maybe a microwave and a toaster oven. i would never leave, oh and for work, i would be a mail man and delver all mail and packages in my tank.

[@Rampster27]

American Tanker really? i thought it was because its ilegal where i live and i do not have the money

[@a_common_weeb]

+American Tanker (bib) your a hater

[@Rampster27]

logan tuttlel shhh, shhh, let the little boy have his temper tantrum.

[@a_common_weeb]

OK lol

[@a_common_weeb]

+American Tanker (bib) she'll if I lived in a world where mail was being stolen then that's what I'd do

[@MarcYuneski]

14:43 I hope he's not speaking from experience.

[@Jesses001]

Seems like he might know a thing or two about the subject. Might be a painful memory, haha.

[@Ceser1999]

Ow, you just KNOW he is....

[@mnbvcxz486]

I'm sure he is. Track tension is definitely you're friend.

[@greifer3866]

The Outtakes at the end were godlike :D I like this dude so much^^

[@Lo-tf6qt]

6:17 soooo the dangerous thing u want to be protected from is a tractor?

[@pnbproductions6008]

lol

[@tombaxter6228]

*Laughs in Ukrainian farmer..

[@jayf6360]

You've got to love that music, YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT MUSIC (infinity).

[@55pajim9]

Nicolas is a first rate presenter. The constant music is unnecessary, distracting & beyond annoying,

[@Galacalactus]

Sean Mulvaney i gree

[@Nderak]

oh, i love his theme

[@StuartWailing]

I was going to write something much harsher about the far too loud music but you've made the point.

[@broshears68]

Yes I agree music is annoying would like to hear better about the vehicles instead of the music playing loudly in the background.

[@ricardosoto5770]

Yes. delete the music, is not needed.

[@ImperatorMortis]

Much love as always for your excellent videos, Chieftain!

[@JGCUSTOMLEDLIGHTS]

I remenber when I deployed to Iraq and drove by one of sadam's tank cemeteries, and saw one of this, it wasn't until I played wot for the first time that I realized what that thing was.

[@johannes8637]

You didn't recognized the beast at first sight

[@allthewiser7523]

Thank you for the informative videos and thank you for the outtakes. They are both very enjoyable.

[@ramairgto72]

Think thats the only time I ever seen him smile.

[@dmitryshevchenko349]

That music is like torture!

[@mark-ish]

Crime against humanity tbh.

[@piritskenyer]

I love the bloober reels at the end :D Great vids, Chieftain, keep 'em coming :)

[@dav2470]

This show is amazing! Thanks!

[@thomasmuller8653]

Great video. Not seen before. Thank you so much

[@barneycrocodoc6877]

Great video (as always!) but really nice camera work, too! Blooper reel was also a good addition.

[@DaveSCameron]

I quite enjoy the musak, goes wonderfully well with your lilt. Thanks again.

[@garuda]

Thanks for this video! The bloopers are fantastic, the humor makes me laugh. Educational as well, Up towards the next one :p

[@steeltrap3800]

One of the first 1/72nd scale models I ever built. Always been fascinated by this thing, and of course the SU-152. I figured you REALLY mustn't like something if you were going to roll one of these up and point that monstrous barrel at it. Thus started my lifelong interest in Russian history generally and the Soviet experience of WW2 in particular. Would love to get to Kubinka some day although I suspect that won't happen. So many vehicles I've encountered in so many books over decades.

[@marktercsak9728]

Great review of the ISU-152

[@ReallyGoodBadBoy]

I'm curious about the 152mm HE shells hitting another tank without penetrating. Would the shock wave kill the crew? Knock the crew unconscious? Pop their ear drums, sever the cornea in the eyes, yet still be aware and oriented enough to keep fighting?!?

[@rodjarrow6575]

A hit from a 152 mm howitzer shell, eventually the tank gets the Offset in mechanisms (as well as the knockout in Boxing, without breaking through the inside of the skull"), making the tank useless on the battlefield. For example, the Impact of 152 mm projectile demolish the tower with the cannon in the tank Panther.

[@Nightdare]

Ever watch Snooker (or Pool)? Imagine at break, your shot hits the first red ball, then see the effect to what happens to all the balls behind it Now imagine it happening with the actual power of the 6" HE shell as the cue ball, the turret armor as the first red ball and everything bolted to the inside of the turret as all the balls behind it These things will start flying through the turret with deadly speed and power (not to mention pieces of metal that break loose on the inside of the turret walls from the shockwave)

[@aquilarossa5191]

it would make them shit their pants

[@SirButtface3000]

lol a 152mm HE shell would obliterate the whole tank

[@Paciat]

@Chris Oly In 1941 a KV-1 got a direct hit from a 15cm Bison. The crew was stunned for a while, but it started driving soon after. Heres a video of a Bison firing at close range. Its not a reliable weapon against tanks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2nOf4yhndeIqqc

[@lafeelabriel]

Love the fact you guys now include the bloopers.:D

[@kimepp2216]

Liked the set. A very interesting vehicle. I wonder if there is any footage of it firing. That would be cool to add. Cheers.

[@kwon8308]

thank you Mr,Chieftain

[@jessefreitas44]

i like how they are adding the bloopers now

[@lucaskoukouvaos2589]

T for teen and the only violence in this video is Nicholas possibly hitting his head off of something. I get it's for W.o.T but.....this isn't W.o.T.....

[@AfterDark33]

The mild violence is at the end of the video where he pinched his hand in something and says "ah shit"

[@DavidGarcia-oi5nt]

It's entirely an advertisement for the game so thats why they do that. They're not here to make a video about a tank(this case a armored assault gun) for educational purposes but to bring to your attention W.o.T. The T rating will also serve to convince any uptight parents (sentence brings back memories of parents refusing to sign sex Ed forms for school and I was put into another classroom while everyone asked if I was Amish or a Mormon).

[@M1Garand22]

I saw you mentioning track tension and I remember when I was a driver I would check my hubs and give the idler a couple shots of grease when ever I could. I didn't want to be 'that' guy.

[@DanielMcCool95]

George Warren II I can just imagine "That guy" who forgets to check track tension... Dang it Carl!!!

[@tachankat2485]

I feel like Nick is a tank salesman trying to sell me an ISU

[@shinkreytpuylap]

Trying to sell *US* an ISU

[@GameMeUpScottyGaming]

Really love the bloopers at the end :)

[@Omen_Seven]

"Con-skruction? Ugh...its gonna be one of those phrases, isn't it?" I loved that bit. lol

[@bill_nye_the_russianspy_9642]

Everyones gangsta until you ride on the back of a ISU through Berlin with your comrades...

[@danielaramburo7648]

This tank is an excellent everyday vehicle. I need to buy one.

[@RibbonInsignia]

Chieftain, You should Review that Tractor at 6:18.

[@JamBoomerach]

+RibbonInsignia Enemy sighted! Quick! It's a tractor! Load AT Anti-tractor rounds!

[@SuperFord800]

+Hetzer Gaming THAT ONE BOUNCED!

[@JamBoomerach]

Killconfirmed 427 Looks like that one went right through.

[@SuperFord800]

Another one like that and we'll finish them!

[@JamBoomerach]

Killconfirmed 427 "We're on fire!" Wait, what?

[@russianbear54]

guys, it's hard to finish watching these videos because the music is annoying and starts getting to you. :(

[@asparagus7014]

I just like listening to his explanation about tanks, I don't mind the music playing in the background. As long as you don't pay attention to the music, you can actually learn how to counter or use the tank in WoT.

[@KanteZockt]

Good Video, good Tank. I like the ISU 152!

[@frankfraser4583]

Great series!

[@jamiesquirrel5283]

the outtakes are a great ending to this :D

[@maxtommo7916]

loving the blooper reel at the end you should be an actor for a mad tank movie chieftain top stuff o7

[@swordmaster2k1]

Best bloopers reel yet!

[@godzillaboy1037]

i love chieftain's bloopers so funny

[@ingwersengrady]

love the bloopers.

[@nomar5spaulding]

I like how we found Iraqi operated ISU-152s being used in the Iraqi Freedrom invasion. If all you want is a sodding big gun to lob shells at dudes, and you have an old one that still works fine, might as well keep using it.

[@moose2577]

I enjoy the hell out of this guy's videos

[@Ghostbuster-xg4sy]

Why to u guys the music is so annoying? I think it's needed or the video would be awkwardly silent and I don't mind it at all :P

[@layol692k7]

funny bloopers at end haha

[@russwoodward8251]

Shazam, this one is a monster. Thanks. Nice review.

[@Autobotmech]

Awesome sir, hope to se you do one on the T-95/ 105 mm gun motor carrage

[@MadnerKami]

As always, I love your vids, Nick. Keep up the good work (o.-)b

[@ghost_on_copium8196]

i have the isu-152 whit the BL-10 and im loveing it

[@jasonharryphotog]

good video, thanks

[@tankers4all]

Why speedometer is there!?!!? Soviet:I don’t know

[@CrimsonWolf11]

XD love the "bloopers" at the end

[@KHRrocks]

BL-10s were mounted on ISU-152s as a TEST. Less than a dozen of those actually existed iirc.

Finally!

[@guttormurthorfinnsson8758]

40 kilo is 88 pound, love thes series.

[@acolbymyers]

2.2 pounds = one kg simple math people!

[@NPCSN]

Love the outtakes. 😂🤣

[@brockgowling-hammond7361]

Finally, been waiting for part 2! Could you consider doing a German vehicle next? Any would be great, but personally I'd like to see the waffenträger ardelt? It's at Kubinka I think...

[@caryyerxa4725]

Lol! Nice job Chief! Keep up the good work.

[@grandmackdady]

got to say i like the bloopers at the end lol

[@lazydragon2551]

A soviet WW2 vehicle with an escape hatch?? BLASPHEMY!

[@false_positive]

yeah, like, you open the hatch and NKVD is already waiting

[@alphaadhito]

+CHUCK NORRIS Then crawls back slowly into the burning tank, haha

[@aquilarossa5191]

It was the Sherman the Germans called Tommy cooker, but we tend to give stuff closer to home a free pass.

[@aslamnurfikri7640]

In Soviet Russia you don't use an escape hatch. Escape hatch uses you!

[@AsbestosMuffins]

is bottom hatch to let crew covertly assault

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

Hey a tank that you can actually move around in. Only thing to do would be to move the instrument cluster to the right hand side, other than that a well thought out beast

[@irishstout1119]

I don't understand all the complexities with steering shown starting around 8:05 - I just hit ASDW on my keyboard and the ISU-152 goes where I tell it to!

[@mikecimerian6913]

Big pressure wave calls for a big horn button, if you are mounted infantry, it is a fine time to stretch your legs. Soviets did have a height limit for drivers. Stocky 5' 7".

[@laurenslecroy5407]

Question: When deployed, where does the crew stow their personal gear and weapons?

[@loleirik4000]

14:42 Track tension xD

[@garycleveland6410]

Essentially, you have a light cruiser caliber gun on an armored and tracked vehicle.

[@meismagiic4779]

1:25 “IT BOUNCED,” ~ every persons who bought this tank and was disappointed’s commander

[@Daniel-md8vv]

I would never drive my tractor in front of that.

[@cloud6254]

Thats some big SHELLS

[@harshitsharma8131]

Tiger tanks got nicknamed "Animals" for there heavy armor and damage...Russians brought in ISU-152 and quickly it got nickname "Animal Hunter"... It tells you how powerful that gun really is

[@johnnyray5981]

And you have a 6" gun!!!

[@666idc]

6:17 lol tractor

[@djmlegofilms2012]

Cool!

[@justforever96]

"kill the master power and that should shut down your engine". Maybe they rigged it up to work that way, but in theory, it's a diesel. It doens't have an ignition system, so breaking the power circuit shouldn't have any effect on the engine. Unless it has an electrical fuel pump, of course. Not sure if he's just saying that because that's usually how a WWII tank is shut down, or if that's actually how it's rigged. It's like driving an old diesel truck; it doesn't have an ignition, but turning the key off will still shut the engine down. Unless it runs away, which is always interesting.

[@raidensears5321]

so BL10 was just a thing that only existed in imagination on ISU152s

[@Jesses001]

No they mounted one for testing. Darn think nearly blow itself to pieces. It damaged the suspension and rattled the crew compartment something awful. They quickly scrapped the project.

[@roxitios]

(Don't quote me in this) I think that the BL10 was an expirimental gun.

[@maxmephistru]

Chieftain: looking in the drivers triplex First British Tank: passing by

[@gings4ever]

it would be lulzy to see an ML-20 from either the SU/ISU's or the artillery piece actually lob that huge ass shell just for kicks (iirc Russia still keeps a number of working ML-20S pieces)

[@johnm3907]

6.19 fire!

[@dal36]

And I still feel better going down the route for the Obj. 263

[@evergrandebestrealestate4854]

Some KillJoy has welded it shut so that we can’t shoot the gun. Hahaha

[@ianmaw66]

I hope you don't mind me asking what camera is used for your videos ? Thanks.

[@tomservo5347]

I saw a WW2 picture of a Panther cupola hit by an ISU-152. The front was completely obliterated and a chunky paste scattered around the outside-the remains of the commander. I could imagine just the shockwave jellifying anything soft.

[@KhalainBear]

Great video as always, but i noticed something curious, throughout the video you can see plenty of bugs and dust flying around but at 4:58 just after he mentions the object 704 if you look up and left from his head near the fual tank is that an orb? (or spirit orb/ball as some call them) it drifts down from the hatch then fades away but then yo see something simular shoot left into the ammo rack just after. Had any problems with strange goings on at this museum? Your really need to have this full screen to see what im going on about. I dont think its dust because it would'nt just fade away like that and its not a bug because they would show up as consistant bright dot under the camera's light.

[@truongtin3911]

its dust reacting to the light of the camera or sun. Dust can reflects lights from an angle and become almost invisible when its not, that explains alot of 'orbs' phenomenon on cameras.

[@truongtin3911]

or just light reflecting the camera, that stuff happens everytime.

[@TreyWait]

"That tractor offends me, remove it..."

[@hedricjones2985]

Lol those bloopers though

[@cocodog85]

nicknamed the beast kill by the russians since it could kill any german tank...panther or tiger 1&2...but that assault gun is a beast in it's self. the 152mm HE round was enough to blow off the turret off a tiger and therefore the AP round and penetration was unnecessary. imagine what it could do to a sherman.

[@aneesh2115]

The kv2 had a 152 mm

[@chadflorida9343]

You know 128mm guns on more than one occasion have halved shermans

[@THE-HammerMan]

Really, the 152AP rounds are more for bunkers, concrete fortifications, mountains that might be in your way, small planets and the like...