![]() Lack of a shot with an effective high-explosive grenade reduced the combat value of tanks for breaking through trained defense lanes Enemy. The first front-line tests of kv-85 and IS-85 (late 1943) showed that against enemy heavy tanks, anti-tank and assault weapons, effectively Soviet tanks could only use their 85 mm cannon from a distance no more than 800 m, when their armor was no longer an obstacle for armor-piercing (and especially sub-caliber) shells of new 75 mm and 88 mm German tank and anti-tank Guns. But the IS-85 was not produced long - the last of 107 the machines that were produced left the plant in January 1944. Before the transition to the serial production of IS-85, the CHK managed to produce 148 KV-85 tanks produced parallel to the KV-1C. These combat vehicles were designed on the chassis of the KV heavy tank and had an 85-mm cannon capable of penetrating the armor of new German tanks at medium ranges. In August 1943, the IS-1 tanks were put into service and immediately put into mass production. The main trump card of the IS is its powerful 85mm cannon that can confidently penetrate almost any enemy armor at medium ranges. The transmission was modernized and a new diesel engine was installed. The frontal armor was increased to 120 millimeters, the turret with sides 100 millimeters thick acquired a more streamlined and complex geometric shape. Although the general layout and many other design solutions were borrowed from the KV-1, the new breakthrough tank was distinguished by greater security and improved armament. ![]() The first IS tanks ("Joseph Stalin") appeared in the army in 1943, as opposed to the German "Tigers" and "Panthers". By the same decree, the plant No.100 was ordered to establish by Octoserial production of the tank, ![]() 4043 "On the production of IS tanks." of 4 September 1943 IS-85 was put into service. For these tasks, it was required to create a new combat vehicle.Īccording to Stalin's wishes, August 21-24 at Gorokhovetsky artillery range (Volodarsky district of Nizhny Novgorod region, now - 252nd combined-arms range) - accelerated tests of the IS tank, the results of which were calculated Successful. For large-scale offensives, the Red Army needed a tank capable of conducting a long-range duel with the enemy. Tanks T-34 and KV-1S could resist them only in favorable conditions and at short distances. New German tanks "Tiger" and "Panther" in increasing numbers were used by the enemy at the front. Tank battles on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943 clearly demonstrated the need to catch up with the enemy according to the technical data of tanks and restore parity in armored vehicles. IS-1 / IS-85 Heavy Tank (Object 237) - Combat
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