IS-2 doc in RUS (Switch on ENG subtitles)

[John Kettler]

Though there are some problems with visuals), in 9 minutes it covers a lot of ground, including some directly CMRT applicable material on combat tasks, positioning in the attack and tactics. Has lots of IS-2 footage I'd never seen before. This is an episode from a Russian channel called Thread of History.
 

Regards,

John Kettler

[MOS:96B2P]

8 hours ago, John Kettler said:

Though there are some problems with visuals), in 9 minutes it covers a lot of ground, including some directly CMRT applicable material on combat tasks, positioning in the attack and tactics. Has lots of IS-2 footage I'd never seen before. This is an episode from a Russian channel called Thread of History.  

+1.  Interesting stuff John thanks. 

[John Kettler]

MOS:96B2P,

You're most welcome. Note that they didn't talk at all about the failed IS-1, which had this annoying habit of being penetrated when shot at frontally from considerable range. Nor was there any coverage of the KV-85, arguably the lineal ancestor of the IS tank family.

Regards,

John Kettler

[MikeyD]

KV-85 was designed and produced in parallel with the IS series. I think the two vehicles even underwent testing together as Kubinka and shared the same turret (warning, relying on distant memory on that factoid.)

We tend to think of tanks as individual 'armored knights' of the battlefield but they're supposed to operate in groups, sometimes very large groups. In January 1945 the 24th Guards rifle division was fielding 4 1/2 battalions of infantry and 30 tanks per kilometer of active front. That would make for one very crowded CM battle! So IS-2's relatively low rate of fire would be less of an issue because there would 6-8 other tanks firing on the target as well.

[Haiduk]

1 hour ago, MikeyD said:

KV-85 was designed and produced in parallel with the IS series. I think the two vehicles even underwent testing together as Kubinka and shared the same turret (warning, relying on distant memory on that factoid.)

We tend to think of tanks as individual 'armored knights' of the battlefield but they're supposed to operate in groups, sometimes very large groups. In January 1945 the 24th Guards rifle division was fielding 4 1/2 battalions of infantry and 30 tanks per kilometer of active front. That would make for one very crowded CM battle! So IS-2's relatively low rate of fire would be less of an issue because there would 6-8 other tanks firing on the target as well.

Also IS-1 (initially IS-85) was third among them. From October 1943 to January 1944 107 or 130 tanks were produced.  Further ISU-152 SP-gun was designed on its base. This tank was on armament of five Guard breakthrough heavy tank regiments and participated in Korsun-Shevchenkovskyi and Proskurov opertations. But this tank like KV-85 showed own weakness against new German tanks - up to the May 1944 all IS-1 already were out of service.