Joseph Stalin's Heavy Break Through Tank (Epic Battles of History)
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when your tank is made of Stalinum
Nice
The first Tiger tank was captured by the Soviet forces in October 1942 (not in January 1943, as you stated), near a town called Mga, which is located about 60 miles north-east of St. Petersburg (then, Leningrad).
this is correct, not 43
It's sad that there are very few documentaries on the legendary IS tank , while for Tiger, T34, Sherman there is so much Information and Footage on TH-cam.
IS2 was a breakthroughs tank which demolished Nazi Hard fortifications which no other tank could do. It was the Heavy Mobile Artillery without which a few thousand more T34 would have been destroyed by Germans.
oh yeah that's true.....wasn't it accidently driven into a ditch which is why it was captured?
@Steamsmith GG
Something like that. It was ether driven into a ditch or got stuck in the mud. In any case, it was abandoned by its crew, that how it was captured by the Soviet forces...
You keep calling them "Russian." They were Soviets. Many soldiers of the Red Army were Belarusians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Armenians, Georgians, etc.
Exactly, unfortunately, with information at people's fingertips.. people have become dumber than ever!
Russians was most
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Exactly as Germans you call them Germans but Austria ugaria Romania tsexia Slovakia Ukraine Croatia Slovenia Bulgaria Finland Denmark fight with them they are just Nazis
@@JuergenGDBJürgen, smart phones only made dumb people stupider.
how about adding Kilogram and Meter
Yeah kind of wtf? They were using mm and inches at the same time. Use the international standards or at least write them on the screen if you are not saying it.
Have you heard about EU.ASIA.OCEANA ?
@@dooler6930 t
typical american ignorancy what should i tell you
@@erikmeri3962 Fuck America
Nice vid, but at 7:40 the music is almost as loud as the narrator, making it rather hard to hear the narrator
true
@@Em_Youl The seemingly eternal nuisance of most documentary videos. Do they ever learn that viewers need information, not the disturbing music?
The music was kind of too loud the whole time. It might be a nice backdrop but it really is just a nuisance
Might be to avoid copyright
i was wondering what music hes using, i bet narrator forgot to lower the volume or setting he edit didn't save and this happened i think
That 122mm gun was so powerfull that it could penetrate Panters frontal armor up to 1400 meters and round would exit in the back of the tank
Lol no engine would stop it
don't exaggerate
Too slow to shoot, left them vulnerable
@@peterlojewski7057 They did have a really bad reload rate but it was not just one IS-2 by itself. They would normally go in a platoon of 3 or 4 medium tanks like the t-34/76 or 85and a heavy heavy tank platoon would consist of 2 heavy tanks is-2 or KV variant. These numbers were less than a German tank platoon which was normally 5 medium and 4 heavy tanks in a heavy tank platoon. But the problem with that is one man ahs more of a much higher responsibility commanding 5 tanks instead of commanding the 4 which left room for more mistakes. But what I am trying to say is that the IS-2 would have other tanks near him that he can rely on to protect him in some way leaving him to go back behind a hill or bush
No no it could not go through a panther but it could take on out at that range but not go all the way through
This channel needed more love then this guy would've posted more :(
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Correction!!!! That single tank that hold off a whole Panzer division was KV-2. It's a very VERY big difference. The gun on KV-2 can send King Tiger packing. While Panzer was thrown rocks at KV-2.
It’s unknown which version it was actually
Also the long barreled 75(PAK 43) could piece the armor of the KV1 and 2. Plus I haven’t seen much reports of KV-2 fighting King Tiger’s
@@i_stoleyour_hotpocket1205 they are saying the gun was powerful enough to pen the armor of a tiger II, the kv2 stopped production in 1942 anyway.
@@sir17pounder8 KV-2s cannot penetrate a King Tiger's Frontal, Lower, Turret Front and cheeks. Using High Explosive however, is a different story. When you aim at the turret, the overpressure and shrapnel can easily pierce the roof and it was fatal to the crews in the Hull and in some cases, it may perform a 1 shell 1 kill.
@@nicm.z9868 I never said I agreed with them, I agree with you, the anti concrete shell used by the KV-2 has no chance of even slightly damaging a Tiger 2, but the HE shell, as you said, could easily cause a shockwave big enough to kill the crew or send shrapnel through the weak hull roof armor
Title: Stalin's break through tank.
Soviet engineers and mechanics: am I a joke to you??
8:57
What makes it even better is that "Udalov" (from Russian "Удаль") roughly translates to "daring" or "valiant".
The outcome of the battle is not surprising. Any Red Army division with Guards title are the elite group of Soviet's fighting force. They are well trained and maintained a high tactical & operational integrity.
Ummm yeah right... LOL, They were just units that had 90-100% logistical capability. Yes, they were the tip of their spear of sorts, but that being said by 1944 Bagration it was either do or die. In fact, we look at stats today (from good books) and see that had the Allies not committed to a Second Front in the West, the Russians would have been in dire straights by 1945 economically. So had the war lingered for another 2 years let's say in the East till 1946 Russia would be hard-pressed to not only pay their men but make new toys. The JS series was shit, sure they could do damage like any other tank, but were slow firing and had shitty maintenance. Most reasons why you never hear how bad maintenance was for the Russian or American tanks, was the fact that they could replace them rather easily, from days to a couple weeks. I met a Russian man, who was a GrandFather to a good friend of mine that said half the T-34's leaving the factory had shitty welding and leaked all the time. Some good books on the subject.
Wrong
Guards was just a badge or insignia given to those that fought with great courage. They had the same training as any other soviet units but would be given priority in new equipment
@@JuergenGDBso a self propelled artillery installation is bad because it fires slow. Very inch-re-stin-g
Great video, but a small note, at 4:40 when mentioning the tank dimensions, you said the correct width, but showed the length again (32ft and 6in).
Adding metric measurements (speed, dimensions) would be a big bonus to reach audience of the rest of the world.
especially since metric is what the Soviets actually used
@@danielkorladis7869 since metric is what 95% of world population is using
Very nice, but i think the naration needs a bit of spacing. It is very very hard to keep track of the continous talking, dont be afraid to give some rest
I dig your channel very much, save for one thing: the background music and ambient sounds are so bloody loud I often can't hear what the narrator is saying, and have to resort to subtitles!
Best,
Robert
Fantastic work you have. Many thanks. The Battles near Sandomeriz Bridge head.
Yes, another great video!
The JS2 was arguably the most imposing tank of the war, up there with the King Tiger. How imposing? Goebbels' media actually spread alarm over its appearance as it hit East Prussia. It did have several weaknesses, esp. its turret mechanism which allowed lighter tanks to get the 'bead' on it before it could bring its main gun to bear. More imposing, in its own way, was the JS3, with advanced radar dishes for night fighting. But it was so late as to be relevant for later wars...
3:06. Your numbers are totally wrong: The T-34's frontal armor was 45mm thick, while the turret's armor was between 40 and 65mm, depending on the model and production year.
The KV-1 tank had a 75mm frontal armor.
From WoTB I guess...
Where u get this info
@@tangmengtit888
Books, internet, education -- you name it!
@@Semyon_Semyonych okay
Another great video! It would be helpful if the music was decreased a little in volume at times like 7:59 it's a little difficult to hear. Other than that, amazing!
It's sad that there are very few documentaries on the legendary IS tank , while for Tiger, T34, Sherman there is so much Information and Footage on TH-cam.
IS2 was a breakthroughs tank which demolished Nazi Hard fortifications which no other tank could do. It was the Heavy Mobile Artillery without which a few thousand more T34 would have been destroyed by Germans.
It was the Soviet Union, not Russia...
A good video with the type of
hard facts that’s rarely touched upon.
The hard fact was that it was actually a KV-2 that held up the 6th Panzer not what he pictured or said
I heard about JS-2 from Game Trench Assault
Very informative, nice presentation.
I just found this channel and I love it! It's a shame the videos are from 1 year ago :( No more activity?
I can't wait till this channel picks up traction
Amazing vid
i never care about tank but this is the first one im care about...idk why
JS-2 is not wrong but it sounds weird to the norm
Iosef Stalin : Joseph Stalin, so yeah, both work
Excellent video. Thanks for that.
I'm confused is it IS or JS?
I know the meaning of it which is Iosif Stalin or Josif Stalin, which one is correct or is it both depending on the language?
I suppose its IS-2 because In Russian its spelt Iosif with an I, not a J. At least I always call it an IS-2.
Йосиф Сталин is more correctly transliterated as "Iosif Stalin" but is more commonly rendered as "Joseph Stalin", hence the confusion between IS and JS
IS. Iosef's name when anglicised is translated to Josef. So IS tanks were called JS by the West.
2:32 This is inaccurate. The Germans don't have Tiger 2s in 1941 and the Tiger 2 easily outclasses the KV 1
They say that the KV-1 halted the offence of the 6th panzer division but it was a KV-2, also that story is exaggerated.
Very true... also... the 122mm couldn't actually pen the frontal armor of a Tiger 2 though he says it did.,.
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Still, a direct hit from it’s HE shell could cripple a tiger 2
@@tantainguyen4290 only if aimed at the Tiger 2's turret ring, which is almost impossible given the bad accuracy of most Russian guns
Choo Yong Ming
Im not talking about War Thunder. In real life, the sheer amount of explosives inside of the 122mm HE shell can kill almost any tank in WW2 because of spalling. You aim at the turret then the Tiger 2 will be effectively knock out because its gun will be damaged.
One of the few videos that bothers to mention the actual use of the tank... pretty much as an Assault Gun... Thank you.
May the hand of stalin and lenin guide my shell!
I love the IS tank series, these tanks look so beautiful in terms of design...my favorite is the IS-2 model 1944 in the Berlin variant with the white stripes on the turret. For me, simply one of the most beautiful tanks of the Second World War, this large and powerful 122mm D-25T cannon, this design of the hull and turret and the 12 cylinder diesel engine make this tank one of my absolute favorite tanks! I have an IS-2 Berlin 1945 from the Polish terminal block manufacturer COBI with the set number [2577] and the RC IS-2 Berlin from Torro will soon follow ❤☭!Thanks for this nice video!
Hey will you do videos about airplanes as well I think it will be very interesting to watch don't you agree?
Excellent video
THIS EDITING IS AWSOMEE
Great video
Char B1 next please :)
I love Soviet history
Nice vid
This so good
I reckon a video on the nickel alloy would be quite interesting
Thank you sir for the information
my father face the IS2 first time in March 1945, when the 1.SS Panzer , Leibstandarte was involved in the Spring Awakening offensive at Hungary. They were named in the German Wochenschau, kind of FOX News back in Nazi Germany, when his Panther took out 11 T34/85 in 15 minutes and two IS2 head on at the same day. The IS 2 was slow, had a bad optical equipment for aiming and only two shots/minute. However, they took on the two IS and the first two rounds bounced off from around 1,400m . The third round was better placed between turret and chassis and took of the turret. The first two rounds from the two IS did not hit the panther, but an third round from the remaining IS hit the panther at the gun mantel, which caused a big noise and dent. However, the first round took out the second IS with the favorite hit against Russian tanks between the turret and chassis’s. The IS2 was a tough cookie compare to the T34, which over 41 thousand where destroyed from the Nazis but the IS was cursed by design, to slow in firing and movement, not good optical devises to hit from long distance. Dad saw only one King Tiger hit from several IS2 and lightly damaged at around 2,000m , but the Tiger II took out all four IS 2 . Nevertheless, it was an hidden IS2 camouflaged as an little house which took his panther out from the side at around 400m+ before an assistance from an King Tiger took out the Is at the house.
I don't know but tbh it sounds a little bit exaggerated. But nonetheless how did your father made it out alive? Was he captured?
Papa's got a brand-new Bagration!
Автору спасибо, есть ошибки но в целом хорошо ...
Great content but please also list the measurements in meters!!!
Only soviet tanks do u ever see them killing tanks with pure HE
Attention, incorrect information! Because the Is-2 tanks in the Soviet military doctrine of war were never the spearhead of tank breakthroughs...! The Is-2 was used only to block enemy attempts to break through the Soviet line of defense. This happened in the battles for the city of Ternopil in 1944, when the German tiger and panther tanks tried to break through the Soviet line of defense, where the Is-2 became an insurmountable obstacle for the German tiger and panther tanks
i can see i little bit of a problem there is another channel called epic rap battles of history or ERB. So if you want to keep the name i would suggest talking to them of changing it. still i love world war history and the animation is great.
Could you possibly do a video about the British mark 3 cruiser? Thx
Plz make a vid on the Matilda 2 British tank.
Not correction map. Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia there were not separate countries. There was Soviet Union (USSR)
In raseiniai there was not a kv1 but kv2
Bro upload more, i miss you. Just upload an "im fine" video ;-;
2.20 - The inscription on the tower with an error "ЧАИАЕБ". Correctly "ЧАПАЕВ" (this is the surname of a Civil war hero)
The fact that the T-34 would only last an average time off 3 months on the battlefield made it so that the t-34 where made with components that would not outlast that average time. It was easier to replace later than to use more time to make it. The fact that continued into the JS-series of tanks would not sound to shocking, but the fact that this was not mentioned once! This is a important factor to the soviet designs, and I’m not sure if this was an oversight or just some unreasonable bias. We have to remember that the west and the east has its own opinion about what makes something have “good quality”. In the east, quality means something that is easy to replace. In the west, it means something that you wouldn’t need to replace for a long time. You can see this in not only tank design, but also in doctrine, weapons, trucks, aircrafts and artillery.
@@historysimplified4075 make your own video then
Jan Arven Belmes I made this comment a year ago... OK so I wanted to say that the JS-2 was BETTER quality than the t-34 BUT it was still not great, this is mostly because the russians did not have the proper tempreture readings for their metal leading to some tanks getting cracks. While the Americans for example had this, and therefore had more effectivity in the field. So not bad, but not good.
@@historysimplified4075 Didn't matter the T34 and IS-2 faced majority of the Wehrmacht while the Western forces faced leftovers, the best Allied tank aces were mostly Soviet and with the T34. Majority of Soviet (not Russian mind you) tank losses were due to the Luftwaffe, not due to cracks or production problems. Ofcourse Soviets produced tanks at a very rapid rate and they are cheap so they will have QC problems..but if Soviet factories had more time producing them they would have as good metallurgy as the West
Even then , strategy and experience will determine effectiveness on the battlefield over metallurgy. Lavrienko destroyed 58 German tanks in 38' to 41' with a T34...that has nothing to do with how the tank is fabricated, the tank is well designed enough for an individual to score such...none of the Soviet lend lease Shermans comes close to that record
Jan Arven Belmes When the allies landed in Normandy the germans sent the majority of the Tiger to the British front because they where sure that they where better than their other enemies. What the russians faced was mostly Panzerkampfwagen III and IV, sometimes Panther. Yes, they did meet a couple of KönigsTiger in Berlin, but that is mostly it. And yes, the T-34 did have problems. The one you pointed out is a pre-war T-34 that was better quality because it was not rushed into combat like the mid to late war T-34s. So some T-34 had good quality, but most T-34 would break down in 3 months after leaving the factory. It was not well designed at all, the crew could often never even get out of the tank when it started burning, the T-34-85 is better but still, the driver and radio-operator could almost never get out in time.
@@historysimplified4075 "To the British Front". Yeah pretty much sums up how you don't know shit you are talking about
Just what is a "Bag-Ration?' Is that like a KFC 2 piece with fries?
English speakers seem to really think that english pronunciation rules can be applied whenever possible.
@@AlASokolov You know if you want to speak Spanish or Italian just add "O" at the end of every English word. Hahahaha!
@@znentitan4032 Sure! "Operazione Bagrationо"
@@AlASokolov You're not saying it right..... It's "Operraziono Bago-Rationo!" Hahahaha!
You should do the Jagdtiger!
501st, interesting, this sounds familiar. Coincidence? I THINK NOT! 0:59
JS - Joseph Stalin
I know that
IS - iosif stalin
my grandfather was a Tiger 2 commander in the 506th station in Belgium and fought off american forces until he surrendered
He surrendered? Traitor.
@@user-fx9rw7xc1e why die for a war that is already ? :/ its for sure no fun when your Tiger 2 is getting surrounded from 20 Shermans
@@leo.r9253 He swore an oath. That's why.
I salute him. Ein sehr gut Panzergeneral.
@@user-fx9rw7xc1e nope, only brain washed people swore an oath.
There is no way T-3 has 107mm of armor
I think he was taking the angle into account.
In actuality the impact of the KV 1s was overstated. While the armor was certainly good it wasnt something the germans hadnt dealt with before. Some french tanks were even more heavily armored than the KV1. The KV1 also didnt offer more firepower than the T34 of the time. The JS2 was actually a development not purely because of heavy german armor but also because every time they put a new gun on the KV to make it stand out from the T34 they noticed shortly after that the same gun could also be fitted on the T34 making the KV redundant again.
....Unless it's a 152mm :D
Obligatory "uhh actually T34 is an american heavy tank, T-34 is the soviet medium tank". Because why not.
@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 I think the US T34 was never actually put in production.
Belarus is pronounced belaroos
What About The Obj. 244
Jesus, i had no idea its possible to butcher every well known word, even Russian.
Better than your videos, oh wait, you don't even have any..
KV-2 next?
Great js2
At the gate of Moscow the Wehrmacht got away with bruises
At the city of Stalingrad they go with bloody nose
At Kursk with broken arm
And Bagration with broken back
it is IS, because joseph is spelled iosif in russian
Pls do the stg 44
I stopped watching after he said "wehrmacht" as "war mark" and "Bagration" as "beg ration"
I know. His voice and the way he speaks are very annoying, but such as yourself I presume, I enjoy videos about tanks and history so I watched.
Especially that "Warmacht" bugged me a lot, it's literally just WEHRmacht. It shouldn't be that hard even for anglo-saxons to pronounce.
Why is this so dramatic? I love the illustrations but i wish the narrators voice was more clear and less dramatic. Otherwise its amazing
He sounds like a 23 year old TH-camr with the naive excitable voice of a millennial 🤣 whose history comes from video games .
haven't you ever watch an American documentary? They're always like this
Do the video about the armor
Make a video on the mousse
Can you do one on the battle of Kursk
Appreciate the info vids, but can we see some ‘actual’ battles?
Or shit nobody talks about, like St. Nazaire?
there is no dash cam in that time, sorry.
NO allied weapon could penetrate the front glacis of the Tiger II at ANY range. Only a few allied weapons could penetrate the turret front from close range (1000 and under). The sides and rear were no issue at long range.
many heavy AT guns with sufficient kinetic energy or HE energy could just crack the plate and spall the crew to death, or just obliterate the weld seams, just making the whole plate fall off
Lwow was Polish. The Soviets and Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and divided it between themselves. The Soviet occupation wasn't any more legitimate than that of the Nazis.
Great video, but music is too loud
What's the difference between an IS-2 and a JS-2?
the same as Bf-109 and Me-109
JS is just the english translation.
Spelling.
Russians call it IS-2 due to the way they pronounce J as I in Russian language. To them Stalin's name is written and pronounced as Iosif Stalin, westerners pronounce it as Joseph with J. And as most of us know this heavy tank was named after Stalin. So there you have it, both are correct but I personally prefer IS-2 over JS-2. Even though I am not Russian nor do I know Russian beyond oversimplified basics.
@@averagejoeschmoe9186 I suppose IS-2 is technically more accurate. Though of course the Soviets didn't (and Russians still don't) use the same alphabet.
Bag ration. LOL!
Also it was called Is-2
I heard somewhere that IS-2 might not penetrate armor but it could rip it off.
This isnt true is it?
Did you not watch the video ?
@@bakapotato5327 I did. I just threw it there. I said I heard that and made a joke about "oh this isnt true is it lol" but obviously it wasnt very clear
Yes. It's true.
The IS2 gun shot often dislocated Germans Tiger and Phanter turret for 50cm.
Bismarck vs Richelieu
Guys the music is much too loud compared to the voice
Its How you pronounce losif stalin or Joseph stalin it Will be is or JS tank
What the heck is wrong with the audio? Trippy.
Baration is pronounced like "BUG-RAH-TEE-ON", after Nepoleon era general en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Bagration
Hi baronvongamez and the team
Edit from his video
Isn't it IS-2 not JS-2?
For the last time its is-2
*The IS 2 is also called Js 2*
*Js means Joseph Stalin*
@@averydankmemer6073 yes but the best way is Is because is the most similar to the pronunciation in russian
@@pizzazherk2746 JS 2 is far more superior
@@averydankmemer6073 I don't know what you mean
@@pizzazherk2746 just don't mind it mate
low a little the back sound music next time.
Music gets to be too loud.
Comrade, Am having a JS 2 please do a american super tank.
fak America, Tovarisch
Thumbs up, except for the music. Lots of comments concerning the loudness of the music, and rightly so. Why can't you TH-cam contributors review your videos before they are posted? Editing is important, whether making a TH-cam video or making a movie.