RUSSIAN KING TIGER KILLERS
RUSSIAN KING TIGER KILLERS
The King Tiger seemed to have made quite an impression on the russians. I recently came upon two pictures of russian ISU vehicles, one of which mounted a long-barreled 152mm cannon and the other mounted a 130mm modified naval gun. Both of these vehicles were on stretched 'Joseph Stalin' tank chassis. While neither of these vehicles went into production, and I have no penetration characteristics for the guns, I believe they would have given the King Tiger a difficult time.
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Soviet ISU-152 Heavy Assault Gun
Soviet ISU-130 Experimental Heavy Assault Gun
Soviet ISU-152 Heavy Assault Gun
Soviet ISU-152 Heavy Assault Gun
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Dear Oleg:
Good day! What you post seems to be an beautiful IS-7, thank you who posted the isu-130 SPG's pic, I am so excited...... Real fantacy, real monster......
ISU152-1's barrel is too long to maneuver easily in woods.
Could you post more secret russian weapons' pic or more articles, thanx!!!!!
Best rgds
Good day! What you post seems to be an beautiful IS-7, thank you who posted the isu-130 SPG's pic, I am so excited...... Real fantacy, real monster......
ISU152-1's barrel is too long to maneuver easily in woods.
Could you post more secret russian weapons' pic or more articles, thanx!!!!!
Best rgds
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Re: RUSSIAN KING TIGER KILLERS
Theoretically no. The 152mm gun (IIRC it was a gun-howitzer really) was a low velocity piece, lobbing big shells onto it`s targets. Penetration figure was 120mm for vertical armor at 1000m - that`s waaaay insufficinet to deal with a Konigstiger`s front armor, unless for the early Porsche turrets. Even though it could not penetrate it, the secondary effects should not be underestimated, with such B.F. shell hitting the armor, the weld could crack and spalling could result on the other side of the armor, injuring the crew, the transmission may not take the shock etc.F/PAUL wrote:The King Tiger seemed to have made quite an impression on the russians. I recently came upon two pictures of russian ISU vehicles, one of which mounted a long-barreled 152mm cannon and the other mounted a 130mm modified naval gun. Both of these vehicles were on stretched 'Joseph Stalin' tank chassis. While neither of these vehicles went into production, and I have no penetration characteristics for the guns, I believe they would have given the King Tiger a difficult time.
But this isn`t made it a good anti-tank gun. The ROF was ridiculus, at about 1 shot/min, 2 in the optimum case - clearly if you missed the target, the enemy could shoot at you 6-7 times before you could reload, which translates to almost certain loss of your own tank.
At Kursk it brought itself some fame - but it was more because the lacking capabilities of other Soviet AT weapons that were unable to deal with Tigers, Panthers and Ferdinands, and sometimes even the more avarage uparmored Panzers. At least the ISU/JSU-152 had some chance. But against "soft" targets, like AT guns, fortified places, pillboxes infantry etc. the 152mm gun was very capable and powerful, the only drawback being the limited ammo capacity. To make good use of the different capabilities, the ISU-152 was often used in mixed formations with the ISU-122s with their better anti-tank capabilites. ISU-152s were used also as a form of Soviet self-propelled arty pieces.
Here`s a good site and article on them:
http://www.battlefield.ru/isu122_152.html
http://www.battlefield.ru/su152.html