Red Army IS-2 heavy tanks (WW2)

number of built IS-2 tanks:
. in 1943: 35
. in 1944: 2.210
. in 1945: 997 tanks before May 9, 1945 and 1150 tanks after

[@zemlidrakona2915]

The IS-2 looks a bit like a T-34-85 on steroids.

[@aivo9941]

T-34+KV-1+ 122mm monster gun

[@marklesterandres4325]

yeh dude

[@thexeonboy7025]

Because it is

[@abebabe3069]

Like a mouse and a rat

[@AlASokolov]

@@aivo9941 +torsion bar suspension, +planetary slewing gear, +more powerfull engine.

[@phonix4454]

In my opinion the best tank made in WW2 should have gotten more attention

[@janikhochenberger8522]

it was to slow

[@phonix4454]

Wasnt the IS-2 faster than a tiger

[@janikhochenberger8522]

@@phonix4454 who asked about the tiger

[@sepiaviolet]

@@janikhochenberger8522 it was a breakthrough tank, it wasn't made to go 70+ kmh, it's just a tank that was produced to face any armor with the 122mm, mobility wasn't the concern

[@dailypunch6249]

@@janikhochenberger8522 For a heavy tank it was pretty quick. Not to mention it had great armor and a great gun and it was only like 40 tons

[@edgehodl4832]

looks very futuristic for its time with oval turret

[@Patriot20054]

Jip

[@Nocturne50]

I always think of tanks as alive species, they're soo beautiful.

[@SMGJohn]

IS and IS-2 were the first modern tanks the Soviets made alongside KV-13

[@fionn7631]

I would argue the t44 was. That then turning into the t54

[@ELing-ib1ki]

well the definition of modern changes over time- the BT series was very modern for its time, but got outdated eventually

[@Nothing....]

@@fionn7631 for me ill say its the t54 1945

[@bluepikmin4740]

This is a beast truly a success when designing this tank and a true replacement for the kv series it’s also Nonnas tank I salute all the shoulders who fought in this beast

[@МаратМарат-у4ы]

Я приветствую Всех кто воевали в этом танке !

[@JGD185]

Great shoulders they were, very wide

[@upyours83yearsago32]

​@@JGD185😂😂😂😂

[@josephstalin9712]

I love the is 2 was a beast in the battlefield

[@Patriot20054]

Which Battlefield?

[@josephstalin9712]

@@Patriot20054 not the game, the real battlefield ww2

[@Patriot20054]

@@josephstalin9712 hahahah😂👍

[@ricochetonthepanzer3395]

Beast tank that was entered into streets fight in Berlin omg I can't imagine how it firing that 122mm on close targets about 700m to 900m omg

[@Edario]

That shell will penetrate everything within that kind of short distances.

[@DouglasSantosTI]

Beast tank?? No. Tiger 2 AND jagdtiger is beast

[@Anti-Hero-vj6ms]

@@DouglasSantosTI You must check js2 caliber

[@DouglasSantosTI]

Caliber means nothing! Tiger 2 has armor and a better weapon.

[@DouglasSantosTI]

IS-2 is the best SOVIET tank.

[@dominikhutnikviktorovichch8546]

German Tanks: We the best Russian Industry turned up: You sure ?

[@udapvillanueva3537]

This is my favorite soviet tank of ww2, the is-2

[@Patriot20054]

I agree

[@shermanfirefly5410]

One gun that's capable for doing almost everything

[@omegasirius245]

The turret turns faster than I thought.

[@cao2391]

German troops: OMG Hitler is watching us. Quickly, make a good impression. Soviet troops: Look, it's Stalin. Ok, get back in the tanks guys

[@markushuber214]

In the dnd Hitler and Stalin were both monsters, Stalin killed more people then Hitler did

[@cao2391]

@@markushuber214 Nice but what does this have to what I said?

[@erwinrommel3704]

@@markushuber214 where is source?

[@lapantony]

@@erwinrommel3704 There isn't one, reax. Some people are just delusional

[@leeham6230]

@@lapantony Stalin had many more years to commit atrocities against his political enemies than Hitler did. Google "Stalinist Gulags", "Stalin's Great Purge" and the "Holodomor" for an insight on his evils.

[@jabbersthekillerrabbit5057]

This has to my favorite tank it just looks right to me

[@feanorian5674]

Tiger : "No one can kill me!" IS-2, Pershing, and Firefly : "Let us introduce ourself."

[@Robbiehans]

But they still couldn't kill a tiger

[@feanorian5674]

Bruh they can. Only need one shoot for the IS-2 to kill Tiger 1

[@Robbiehans]

@@feanorian5674 in battle of Berlin corner the commander of king Tiger tank. He managed to destroy 13 IS2 and 37 T-34-85 tanks in 3 days

[@feanorian5674]

Which kind tiger that you mean? IS-2 couldn't penetrate tiger 2 (front armor of course, but can penetrate side armor). But if it face tiger 1, IS-2 could wreck that tank from distance about 1.400 meter, while tiger have to get closer to 600 meter to kill IS-2. In battle of Lvov-Sandomierz, IS-2s from 72nd Guard Heavy Tank Regiments managed to destroyed 5 tiger1 and 10 panther. And to kill tiger 2, T26E4 super pershing can do it.

[@feanorian5674]

You need to read more about tanks battle history. German tanks are not always OP

[@A7OM1CS]

1:51 here we see an IS-2 heavy tank shedding it's addon armor in an active warzone in an effort to reduce weight and increase speed and maneuverability

[@matrixnorm6672]

still seething

[@nickryan6787]

Lmao nice

[@panterka.f]

haha, what a joker

[@methcooker6402]

Happens more often every spring

[@wisnusatriaerlangga153]

Stalin's iron fist

[@RamenNoodlePackets]

One of the best looking tanks ever designed in my opinion.

[@daboys9224]

Power of staling

[@pacivalmuller9333]

Stalin was not staling

[@ТОЛИКИВОЛГИН-п4ф]

...кто бы, что ни говорил, ИС-2 это мощный и грозный танк.....и сила инженерной мысли того периода времени...

[@Patriot20054]

Танк ИС2 тоже намного лучше Phersing

[@apersondoingthings5689]

@@Patriot20054I mean in what it did and overall reliability yes, but terms of what it was capable no

[@alexwest2573]

I love this channel

[@meteor1945]

the best tank of ww2

[@ancom_161]

@Furry Destroyer?

[@Ace-wg3sk]

@Furry Destroyer Well, the Nashorn did have a very powerful cannon.

[@milokhanh313]

Ace i would prefer the beast hunter isu 152 :V , soviet didnt need a supa high penetration , all they need to do was put more tnt explosive into the shell , the power of mightly invisible hammer would shred the bad kitten's armor :V

[@samsalemi9769]

Furry Destroyer 1 gun bigger then a 20mm and the nashorn is dead

[@miko886]

@@Ace-wg3sk it had same as Tiger I and II but if it was around 0.5km or more shell of Pak 8.8 will lose pennetration and it will not pen the IS-2 210mm effective frontal armor

[@streetfighter2471]

Imagine a battle between the beast is2 and the king tiger. Amazing machines

[@methcooker6402]

Whoever shoots first gets out alive

[@Diwana71]

That's how the Red Army reached Berlin. 🙏🙏🙏. Great music.

[@hydrodrift]

I love the IS 2

[@KemoTherapy69]

Panthers: *Why do i hear boss music?*

[@panterka.f]

lol

[@SeriyKayf]

Usually, children and adults with children's brains imagine a war on tanks like this - I shoot some tanks at others. Accordingly, the logic says that the thicker the armor, the more powerful the gun, the better the tank. Well, and accordingly the best tanks can be considered the Royal Tiger! and Mouse, if only they had time to release it. BUT! This is idiocy! Tanks very, very, very rarely fight other tanks. The main enemy of tanks is anti-tank infantry guns, mines, anti-aircraft guns, and sometimes tanks. It makes sense to shoot at infantry from a tank gun, if only there is a lot of explosive in the shell. Shooting anti-tank blanks is pointless. The IS-2 cannon had outstanding qualities both in shooting at infantry, cannons, buildings, fortifications, tanks, ... albeit due to a decrease in the rate of fire. The IS - 2 could successfully destroy enemy infantry, houses, fortifications and much more, ... the panther with its funny projectile, it simply could not do this. Cannons of panthers and tigers - high projectile speed, with a minimum amount of explosive ... it worked only against armored vehicles of the enemy and only ... But, tanks with tanks fought very rarely ... Another "outstanding" property of panthers and tigers is it is their design that does not allow them to be mass-produced. If there are few tanks, in fact they are useless. Somewhere, sometimes, a lucky panther or tiger, from an ambush, could knock out several enemy tanks. So this is still no use, because in another place the T-34 and IS-2 have already broken through the defenses, they are advancing unstoppably ... You just have to throw tigers and panthers so as not to get surrounded ...))) Do you want to lose the war - build a lot of panthers and tigers, and even better than royal tigers, though you still can't get a lot, the design is idiotic. Do you want to win - t-34.44, is - 2.3 !!!

[@Patriot20054]

Bye bye tiger

[@Patriot20054]

Best tank

[@sebastianavila7069]

Only if the IS-3 saw action.

[@10_rounds_rapid]

it did, the Egyptians fielded them in the Six Day War against Israeli M48s

[@rizzo9748]

@@10_rounds_rapid damn that wasn't the best exploitation

[@rizzo9748]

@Vater Morgana but imagine if

[@gordonilaoa1275]

@Вук Тодић could come down to the crew in the end

[@xigrus]

Then the maus will saw action too

[@Svemirsky]

Chad tank.

[@YoRHaUnit2Babe]

why do they have higher fps and quality than us now

[@abramus0815]

haha true XD

[@bigmeme8464]

In War Thunder is easy to kill it but if you miss the first shoot you re dead man

[@darkknightbatman8269]

Especially with your tiger tho

[@combinedingredients2294]

@@darkknightbatman8269 A Tiger vs an IS-2. That scenario is a perfect example of whoever fires first wins. Whoever misses or fails to fire first dies.

[@soundbust1164]

*YOU DARE SCRATCH NATASHA'S PAINT!?*

[@topmemes7925]

sheriff tyson yes in real life the both sides can penetrate the other Tiger I can penetrate IS-2 IS-2 can penetrate Tiger I

[@samsalemi9769]

Bass Boosted Music and if the IS 2 doesn’t penetrate due to brittle kruppsteel it’ll just burst the welding seams and can even rip the turret off

[@vaninec]

Thank u What a Beaty!

[@kristelvidhi5038]

Imagine if this tank got the Make up to look like the Tiger Tank in Kelly's Heroes, instead of the T34.

[@miko886]

A heavy tank with good armor, gun and speed while weighting only 44 tons, one country could have learned a lot from that back in those days! Possibly one of if not the best heavy tanks of the war, kinda cheap for what you get, on avarage they could pass 1100km without breaking down, easily replaced and repaired, easy to transport. It was made as an breaktrought tank and it did that job very good, even tho it had a really good gun it was not the best tank killer because of the reload but if it did score a hit it was possible it didn't need another, in that part German heavies were better because their 88's and 75's were reloading much faster, but tanks main target's are infantry and fortifications so it didn't matter much, but Soviets knew IS-2's had that weakness and most of the time deployed them in places with little German armor in small groups, I belive it was even documented that in a few occasions when when Germans heard that IS-2's were being deployed in some places they would even retreat. In my eyes that's a perfect breaktrought tank!!

[@baldanpurev108]

My Tank

[@keithallver2450]

Most people when asked who made the best tanks during WW2 the answer 90% percent of the time is the Germans but I think it was the Russians.

[@paulwilson8061]

Soviet tanks- to win the war German- to win the battle

[@earthspace8666]

Johnich I wouldn’t say that after the battle of Kursk

[@woogangamadeusmozart3642]

For me the best ww2 tank was the su152

[@whatsguud2630]

Not saying it was the best tank in WWII.... But i would say the US super Pershing was the most powerful tank though in the war...

[@a.t6066]

@@whatsguud2630 king tiger was the most powerful tank

[@BC-vc3oj]

It is beautiful

[@realtk6482]

The sovjet King Tiger.

[@NickChigozie]

Glory to the red army in ww2

[@rkerto]

T34 giga chad! YES

[@viktorlegion5857]

У немцев бы глаз задёргался от токого количества танков

[@Oosansyouuo_tatsugoro717]

でかい！ そして意外と速い

[@briangriffin2905]

One hit off one of these things & it was curtains.

[@Dejaelvicio507]

It is like the KV-2 but with a lot of armor and a little more mobility.

[@ГеннадийАндреев-ч2е]

Советская мощь 1943 года.

[@paulwilson8061]

Геннадий Андреев 44

[@ДанилСолодовник-т7э]

Русская Мощь

[@ancom_161]

@@ДанилСолодовник-т7э Советская, а не русская.

[@leg1onorganization908]

@@ancom_161 На войне воевало 135.591.550 Русских, 4.845.140 Узбеков, 4.313.490 Татар, 3.100.950 Казахов, 3.028.538 Евреев, 2.275.678 Азербайджанцев, 2.249.636 Грузин.

[@АндрейНео-н2ы]

@@leg1onorganization908 ммм , а имя им всем - русский солдат !

[@monkas1833]

And in CoH2 they can‘t even penetrate a Panzer IV at a range of 10 meters smh. So fucking trash by Relic

[@justforever96]

Imagine how loud it must have been in that city street with 200 barely muffled diesel tank engines and steel roadwheels on steel tracks, steel drive wheels and return rollers, driving on pavement, all the noise echoing between the buildings? Even the whole army of BA-64s would have made a racket by themselves. I do like the IS-2, although the T-34 did more overall to win the war. And it's dumb to argue over what's the "best tank" because that totally depends on how you want to define it. Is it the one that's most deadly to other tanks? Because that's only a part of what a tank needs to do. Are you measuring one vs one, or does the ease with which thousands were made count, since it overwhelmed the enemy? That's good design. Is it useful all over the battlefield, can it get TO the battlefield without half the fleet breaking down? You can have a super tank but if half of them are eliminated before you even get there, it's not as good as a tank. Or if it's too heavy for the bridges, or gets stuck and can't be recovered without special equipment. Them it doesn't matter if it can kill ten tanks in single combat. And most tanks spend way more time doing infantry support, driving around from place to place. I read that the machine guns were by far the most used weapons on WW2 tanks, so your Panther being really killer at destroying other tanks in duels doesn't really make it "the best tank". Sadly, same applies to the IS-2. The T-34 is just more useful all around, unless you are spearheading a break through.

[@NickChigozie]

Nice music

[@thardja411]

I believe even the tiger will strucked by IS-2 at its first hit

[@miko886]

@Vater Morgana no no no tiger I cant pen IS-2 frontal armor on 1km

[@Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here]

Dumbass

[@drinkyourwater1039]

*Ahem* The 122 mm D-25T had the best accuracy of heavy tanks of the time, getting even 100% accuracy over 2500 meters, The crew was cramped but the improved commander's cupola that came in the IS-2 was excelent at doing it's job, it had better visibility than the Stug III and Panzer III, in war analysis made by the soviets is that the Tiger II front Hull could be shattered by the 122 HE shell, depending on the quality of the steel used and weldings, and the FLAK 88, one of the proud german anti-tank weapons, was useless against the 120 mm angled at 60° IS-2 hull, making the turret cheeks the weak spot, that most of the times were covered with tracks or soldiers. About the KV-2 is very wrong, most of the KV-2s were abandoned in combat because of shortage of fuel and ammunition or frequent mechanical problems, no tank could penetrate the KV armor at the time, even the Panzerjäger with it's 7.5 cm Pgr 40 (APCR) could not penetrate it's hull, that was famous in the battle of raseiniai, where a lone KV-2 stood it's ground in a strategic bridge, and no german anti-tank weapon could penetrate, they only took it down by a FLAK 88.

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

@Vater Morgana The engagements at Oględów proved otherwise. Even a T-34/76 claimed a Tiger 2 kill.

[@spencergregory8049]

Js2 vs Pershing?

[@johnjacobsen1915]

Interesting that the Russian soldiers all seem solemn and businesslike while the Germans always seemed happy and eager to go into battle. At the end of the war the Russian Army was frigging magnificent

[@InfideI]

Pervitin can fix some issues.

[@DanielNotWise]

Drugs. It's all about drugs

[@nueng-vq3vc]

3:37 world​ nightmare.

[@NickChigozie]

Adolf taught he did something fr fe skull emoji but he absolutely got cooked by them

[@sasin2715]

THEY WILL KNOW FEAR

[@tomaspolizzi3321]

GREAT 🤙🏻

[@KRAL4404]

Sláva tankistom červenej armády!!!

[@tuskom4677]

ИС - легенда!

[@Diwana71]

You must colour them. Please.

[@omarmoreno1483]

Bro I can get 5 kill games with this beast on warthunder ❤

[@NickChigozie]

Never mess with the red army 😎😎😎😎😎

[@maekszim]

IS-2 ( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)ᕤ

[@Do-non]

2:13

[@johnjacobsen1915]

The fire control system was severely flawed. It created a scenario for the gunner that was like taking your hands off the driving wheel while driving fast on a winding road. It broke your rhythm, feel, and connection to the battle field. If, after firing a shot, you had to elevate your gun off the immediate view, you would then need to recalibrate and re-capture the "feel" of the battlefield again and again, taking one out of the efficiency of rhythm and losing the feel of the last shot completely.

[@PhoeNix-vs8fe]

the aiming system is better than tiger 2

[@rodjarrow6575]

John Jacobsen ....stop taking hallucinogens!

[@stewartmillen7708]

Have you been in an IS-2? It was a popular tank with Soviet crews, and moreover Soviet tactics for this tank was to engage at 1500-2000 meters. Soviet tactics wouldn't have recommended this range if there wasn't a good chance of hitting/killing targets, especially considering the limited ammo supply. Insofar as moving, no WWII tank really fired and moved well.

[@johnjacobsen1915]

@@stewartmillen7708 LOL how would I ever get inside an IS-2? I was born in California.

[@stewartmillen7708]

@@johnjacobsen1915 Well, there IS one now in the American Heritage Museum at Stow, MA. :P There was a Quora post comparing the optical sights on several WWII tanks. It judged the optical sights by five criteria, I recall, and that on the Tiger I (?) had all five, including the ability to 'set' a position and be able to return to it. The sights on every other tank covered lacked this feature; most tanks met at least 3 of the five criteria. The T-34/85, which one might assume would have a similar sight to the IS-2, met four of the five criteria and only lacked the 'set position' ability. So if you're talking about the ability to 'store' a position and return to it, yep, the IS-2's sights did not have that. Neither did any other tank in WWII, including Allied tanks. Only the Tiger, and maybe the Panther, had it. However, the author of the post stated that this feature was an incremental advantage and that indeed all the sights he/she covered were perfectly functional and capable of doing their job.

[@picardbs]

It was no doubt superior to any German tank, Tiger II included.

[@Venera1413]

In fact, the Tiger II was superior in firepower and armor, but an IS-2 could knock out a Tiger II at short distances.

[@szaki]

It had a slow rate of firing, 3 shot per minute. 120 mm ammo was heavy, mostly used HE shells against defenses. The tank was very expensive, Stalin didn't like to use them much , other than on victory parades!

[@stewartmillen7708]

What do you mean, "didn't like to use them much"? IS-2s were quite popular with their crews and in demand. You also must weight the admittedly slow RoF against the fact that with the 122 mm, one hit was pretty much a sure kill against anything. So just ineffectually 'plinking' your opponent with smaller caliber rounds until you get lucky is better?

[@no7m362]

The real life Is 2 looks different than the war thunder Is 2

[@CrniWuk]

Comrade! There is a Panzer II attacking us! IS tank with 122mm : Panzer II? What Panzer II.

[@rocksteel44]

...WOW!!!!!!!! GREAT FOOTAGE...BAD-TO-THE-BONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) LOVE THIS TANK!!!

[@springyboi1903]

Stalinium doing good work ☭☭☭

[@milanmarjanović_4]

😭😭😭

[@JohnnyMW]

страшный был танк, убивал все

[@киркуду]

А от ис-3 на параде в Берлине 1945 года, у многих союзников стали мокрыми трусики )))

[@27rus63]

я знаю где стоит IS-2 и IS-3 у нас на Курилах,I know where IS-2 and IS-3 stand in our Kuril Islands Танки острова Шикотан. РТОТы. Брошенные ИС-2, ИС-3, Т-54. Курильские острова. Shikotan. 千島列島 色丹島 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4SXpamlbLeefNE

[@doctorhto3372]

На итурупе я видел стояли башни от т54.

[@jameshopkins5702]

It’s big so you can see it it’s loud so you can hear it and it’s ugly so you can fear it

[@michaelweiss7880]

Great accounts of this tank getting it's ass handed to it in" the last panther" book by the time they loaded this thing a panther can get 2 or 3 shots off at it. It had 2 part ammo .The details are great about these things getting hit by kings and panthers.

[@garyhill2740]

They very quickly developed a drop down breech to replace the screw type for the main gun and improved rate of fire. Panther's and Tigers could fight IS-2's. But plenty of big cat's got their ass handed to them by IS-2's as well. Usually depended on circumstances, and who fired first and hit first.

[@Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here]

You are beyond insane. The last panther by Wolfgang Faust is a piece of fiction, the author didn’t actually fight in WW2 (he was born after the end of the war). In real life, panthers were absolutely creamed by IS-2s

[@stewartmillen7708]

Which action was this? I do know of an action, in April 1944 in the Ukraine, where a kampfgruppen formed from 17th Panzer Division with a Tiger battalion attacked a position defended by 11th Guards tank corps. In one part of the battle, *30 Panthers* attacked 10 defending IS-2s, at 1500 meters. The result? 20 Panther's KO'ed (15 irrecoverable) versus 1 IS-2 burned-out and 1 damaged. And yes, this data is confirmed by German records.

[@Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here]

@@stewartmillen7708 he wouldn’t be able to tell you, because the book “the last panther” is a fake memoir written by a German ultranationalist. The “memoir” provides no dates or locations nor does it say with whom did the author serve with

[@depebehwuha3510]

пхпахахахахахаах немчура))))) берлин был взят несмотря ни на что))))) ваши пантеры горели)))) и будут гореть)))) как и леопарды 2))))лол

[@rkerto]

if this had 122mm and the tiger had 88mm, you would thinks its has better firepower no

[@keesvanharen9791]

IS2 sucked big time, it took two minutes to reload and aim. In the meantime a tiger would have shot 3 times.

[@CCXRTrevita]

If You get hit by that 122mm gun i'm a tiger 1, You won't likely survive.

[@harris8401]

🇺🇦 for Victory

[@NickChigozie]

Yes

[@NickChigozie]

Adolf taught he did something fr fe skull emoji but he absolutely got cooked by them