The ISU-152 aka Tiger Tank nemesis 

Exactly, since you can easily see the designated hole on mantlet for it. Only tank that is simmilar to ISU-152 that had optics mounted on the hull, next to gun is SU-100Y, and it was pain making the mechanism to make both gun and sight synchronize

The real hard thing to do is find ammunition to shoot with

@@ms3862 the barrel looks to be dearmed

"you see Ivan if armour protect you from German bullet then armour protect you from radiation"-some Soviet soldier probably

sadly not anymore, only #130 is there. The other 2 have been moved.

@@night7185 - I'm aware of the one outside the plant and the one that was at the bus garage in Prip'yat. Where was the third? I always wonder how many of them are still at the bottoms of ponds and marshes north and west of there.

@@hamletksquid2702 theres one in a scrapyard

Alexander Pil'kin from from non-putin Russia. Sorry to correct, but I suppose you meant SU-100. Probably they decided to name after Stalin only the most powerful self-propelled guns.

Naturally curious where all the money comes from to sustain all this too. Too soon?

@@alexace5584 Sure, it's a private collection of Rob Lowden, a businessman. I seriously doubt the museum turns much or any profit.

You mean the good, the bad and the ugly?

@Themaster4969 - "US", or them, or do you mean U.S., for United States?

@@HiTechOilCo united states. It was easy to pick up that he meant that.

Its heavy artillery mounted in a bunker and then got tracks attached to it. One tough Mofo against infantry and fortifications. Not a great tank hunter though just a bandaid until the Soviet tanks were upgraded to better guns and the arrival of the IS series.

Yes, with the environment for sure.

@@Valdore1000 I don't think the environment was anyone's concern when you are in such a huge scale conflict

​@@TheMeanLemon The environment wasn't a concern back then in general. Shit I'm not sure the environment is a concern now for Russia in 2023.

​@@cefb8923 самый простой способ проверить это, приехать в Россию!

This tank stood for almost 60 years. but she was revived ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n_aDMqFrUV8.html

Ужаснее было получить снаряд из него.

Sure man , there was a Russian me262 , V2 one month after the german's launched theirs

@@cnfuzz He did say counter, not one-up. Both 262 and V2 were used on the western front - former to hunt allied heavy bombers (which russians essentially didn't use) and the latter to shell british cities. SU-152 wasn't designed for anti-tank use but there just wasn't anything else that could counter Tigers and Panthers at Kursk on the ground so they had to make do. The effective counter was introduced a year later - the SU-100.

The Russians may of had the tank to counter the German Tiger and had the numbers but no way were the Soviet Tank crews on the same level of skill. training discipline as the German Panzer crews from radio operator to tank commander they were outstanding

@@joelmonkley6177 I think that German tank crews have reached mythical status thanks to the Tiger 1. All other versions were outclassed by the T34 and it's variants making tank combat at an equal level since the Germans upgraded their earlier versions with bigger guns. No doubt the Tiger was superior to the T-34 but the Tigers were few and far between and were easily destroyed using Molotov cocktails over the engine compartment due to leaking fuel. Their Achilles heel.

​@@joelmonkley6177yes because they were planning to backstab the soviet even before they signed a pact with them.Never trust a kraut

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It was great until they nerfed HE rounds.

@@normanpotts3169 bro, I still remember the BL-10 days. Now they've come out with something very similar to what the ISU used to be, but they're shamelessly selling it on the market.

Better play WarThunder, you will feel the mass and heaviness of vehicles much more than in WoT

Yeah I prefer war thunder

@@user-dz8tv4mg5o You're not lame. You're a winner in my book. Just gotta believe in yourself

Yes its a mobile artillery piece not a tank!

They are actually in Russian, most letters are similar but words are definitely Russian

I can confirm these are Bulgarian words on the radio

@@user-if4zv5nj5m Ты бы на паузу нажал и прочитал бы слова на панели...)

@@user-if4zv5nj5m Ага, это определенно по-русски: "ПРЕДИ РАБОТА ПРОВЕРИ ЧЕСТОТАТА ПО ВЪТРЕШНИЯ КАЛИБРАТОР" ))

Shilka xD I don't understand why it's not been used more in this war today, it would be an excellent anti-drone weapon. Shilka is an absolute beast, ZSU-23-4

It had a radar, that's most probably why it was your prime target

@@seeerserious hello. The radar system wasn’t the type that can scan for targets at ground level and in forests, only under rare and special conditions would the Shilka detect a vehicle, usually if it’s at the top of a barren hill with no other vegetation or forestry amongst the target. Ground level radars use a different frequency range that can provide a more detailed image of what’s out there, we used to use them in the Army back until the 80’s where we had wide open plains that we needed to have an image of to determine what targets are where. As airborne radar systems were fielded, the ground based radar was discontinued and completely removed from inventory.

@@echohunter4199 I know, that's why I was talking about anti-drone weapon, Shilka should excel in that role.

@@seeerserious The Pantsir is already vastly superior in the role. The 30mm guns have longer range and are more accurate than the Shilka's and when that range isn't enough, it has missiles that can reach out 18km.

The IS-2 had a 188 mm gun! Hitler by personal order forbade engaging in direct combat with the IS-2

​@@smaikzorin4492 the is2 had a 122mm gun, that's still very impressive for WW2

ИСУ-152, это продолжение СУ-152. Предназначен для уничтожения и прорыва обороны. Его аналог не Ягтигр (Jagdtiger ), а Штурмпанцер 4 (Sturmpanzer 4).

V-2 family of engines started at BT-7M and hasn't ended yet - T-90M uses a version with all the modern bells and whistles and sounds just as great.

We would have more about that. It would have been the same with any large artillery Round and especially aircraft bombs

Turning Brake(s) & Gearbox Inspection Hatches

@@razor1uk610 Thanks wasn't paying attention to the tracks and missed the drive sprocket.

the bigger achievement is unlike the German super tanks and tank destroyers it could move faster than a slow walk and didn't break down all the time.

@@nicholastuttle2445 It was also more versatile since it's an assault gun, it's more effective against bunker using high explosive shells shot from a howitzer. The German 88 can be used against bunker but due to the higher velocity and smaller caliber, the explosive shells are less effective. Of course there is a trade off as the smaller gun can be reloaded faster.

Sorry but that’s physically impossible. The amount of “energy” alone from an AP shell is most certainly not enough to pop it clean off. In fact no gun fielded on a tank chassis during the war could. You would need to hit an ammo rack in order to pop a turret off

@@bro3217 Yes it is possible. Do the math. 48.8kg shell; 600 meters per second muzzle velocity; eight and three quarter million joules of energy - about the same as 20kg of TNT. More than enough to knock the turret off a Tiger.

the AP shell was so expensive and hitting things was so difficult that it was only ever used in small numbers... The explosive round was more than enough to disable any tank but it also had only a fire rate from 1-3 shots per minute, low accuracy and low mobility so it was not a good tank hunter. It was a traditional infantry supporting assault gun that was sometimes used against the heaver German tanks in 43 and 44 as a bandaid since Soviet tanks before the T-34/85 and IS series were almost helpless against the Tigers and Panthers.

@@bingobongo1615 Really? Have you seen "The Tank Archive" report on "SU-152 Practical Accuracy"? In any event, irrelevant to the post that I made.

@@bro3217 Yes thats possible and thats what has happened during trials of 152 mm on captured tiger. AP shell displaced tiger's turret 1-1.5 meters back towards the rear o the tank. Tiger became a ferdinand xD

The SU-152 was on the KV-1 chassis /engine and the ISU-152 was on the later IS chassis , the casemates are different also but they share the same beast of a gun !

Yeah but with a much shorter gun and practically no anti-armour capabilities. I mean sure the HE round could "potentially" kill a tank simply due to the large amount of explosive filler however it was horribly inaccurate and cumbersome as hell.

@@egonieser You are correct.

The KV2 could only rotate its turret on level ground as well.

From the top it might look like it but the ISU is twice as tall and the armor is ridiculously thick on it.

Wow

500 km in this box is 12-15 hours of shaking ... The crew was simply drained through the lower evacuation hatch and a new one was put in. Joke. Rather, the crew fell asleep after stopping, and after sleeping it went to the dining room and to the bathhouse.

@@American97percent 12-15 hours of shaking at noise levels making you deaf before even firing the deafening gun... And ear protection was not available.

Now just imagine how insanely large the jg pz e100 actually is👀

​@@whitedevil024 the only place where you can see one is wot and wot devs imagination so its pretty small

This is not a classic tank, but a self-propelled artillery mount! The Russians had an IS-2 tank with a 188 mm gun to deal with the German "beasts"!

Huge 122 and 152mm calibers is not so fast as 85 and 100, but huge caliber provides really powerful HE round, and vehicle become universal (it can also destroy houses, concrete and ground fortifications, and those targets is much more common on the battlefield then enemy tanks). Low reloading speed was compensated by tactic, when those beasts appeared mostly in the large groups. Besides, IS-2, ISU-122 and ISU-152 literally has the same guns as divisional artillery (ML-20 and A-19), and many parts with ammo was interchangable, and this fact made logistics much easier.