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Woo....this was quite a bit of work...but it came out well! Here we have Junior Lieutenant Laya Eateric in her IS-2 (or JS-2 depending on your preference), "For Leningrad!," leading her platoon of IS-2s, and having spotted a German tank! Is it a Jagdtiger? No? Then that 122mm shell WILL go through. Unless it's a King Tiger. In which the Tiger's armour will crack and shatter even if the shell ricochets, because German armour was horrendously brittle after they lost the molybdenum mine in '43 >W> Point is, IS-2 can knock out anything it's likely to encounter :I
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Yep! Probably wouldn't be any more difficult, if slower, than loading Tiger's cannon--each piece is fatter, but also shorter than the 88mm shells.
Soviets actually did experiment with one-piece shells in IS-2 and ISU-122. It actually made loading slower and more difficult, and in the IS-2's case, further reduced the already poor ammo capacity.
Soviets actually did experiment with one-piece shells in IS-2 and ISU-122. It actually made loading slower and more difficult, and in the IS-2's case, further reduced the already poor ammo capacity.
That's what you get for a tank designed for "breakthrough operations" rather than explicitly killing other tanks per se.
Also the slow rate of fire was kind of a good thing since the Soviets didn't have any kind of bore clearing system like the Germans did (see the Panther for an example). So when you open the breech some smoke would backdraft into the turret. IIRC when they were testing IS tanks with a 100mm gun they got an improved rate of fire but the turret ventilators couldn't keep up with the amount of smoke coming out of the gun when they were shooting as fast as possible.
Also the slow rate of fire was kind of a good thing since the Soviets didn't have any kind of bore clearing system like the Germans did (see the Panther for an example). So when you open the breech some smoke would backdraft into the turret. IIRC when they were testing IS tanks with a 100mm gun they got an improved rate of fire but the turret ventilators couldn't keep up with the amount of smoke coming out of the gun when they were shooting as fast as possible.
American tanks had the best general purpose vision devices (periscopes and vision blocks) on the whole but the Russians were very close behind on their late war tanks like the IS and T-34-85. The gun sights weren't all that great but they all had rotating periscopes for all the crew positions - some Shermans even had binocular periscopes for the gunner along with a telescopic gun sight too!
The Germans seemed to have a different philosophy for tank design by very narrowly segmenting off devices for the crew's use to be specific for them only. The commander is the eyes, the gunner shoots, the loader loads, that's it. US/USSR design was more organic in comparison.
Feel free to add me on Skype if you wanna do more tank nerd talk sometime. :3
The Germans seemed to have a different philosophy for tank design by very narrowly segmenting off devices for the crew's use to be specific for them only. The commander is the eyes, the gunner shoots, the loader loads, that's it. US/USSR design was more organic in comparison.
Feel free to add me on Skype if you wanna do more tank nerd talk sometime. :3
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