Tank Chats #54 JS III | The Tank Museum

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  @Orb_Pilot · 8 years ago

  I may or may not be slightly irritated about the fact that when I visited Belgium they had just relocated this tank to Bovington and that when I visited England it had just been moved back.  Who knew Stalin could be so elusive?

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  @MrCordycep · 8 years ago

  "You're off finding mines with your feet on the Eastern Front." A phrase worthy of David Fletcher. :D

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  @Tyler-sy7jo · 3 years ago

  I really do love how the IS-2 and IS-3 look. When I think "tank", it's usually something that looks similar to these.

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  @yevrahhipstar3902 · 5 years ago

  That turret is a casting masterpiece.

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  @donneale7555 · 7 years ago

  I can only imagine the looks on the "Allied" commanders faces when they were watching the parade and these things come rolling by

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  @sailcat662 · 8 years ago

  Love Soviet tanks. That pike nose makes it look so futuristic.

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  @ledavalon7118 · 7 years ago (edited)

  American historians: The cold war was settling it, the tensions between the two super powers are at an all time high and are locked in an ideological conflict lasting for decades and threatening to end THE ENTIRE WORLD through nuclear destruction!<br><br><br>British historians: &quot;The cold war is starting and the soviets and the west arent really getting on&quot;

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  @MrWhiskers65 · 6 years ago (edited)

  That’s a real Beautiful Beast! A Soviet masterpiece!... Hard to believe it was made at the end of WW2.

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  @orgami100 · 7 years ago

  They sure put couple of big holes in our Budapest apartment in November 1956..

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  @spamuraigranatabru1149 · 8 years ago (edited)

  <b>&quot;WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THAT?&quot;</b> - Squire

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  @builder396 · 8 years ago

  DT-20? Thats a russian tractor from 1958. The gun is called the D-25T!

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  @Oddball_E8 · 8 years ago (edited)

  Quick clarification: Putting the 85mm gun on the KV-1 did not make it an IS-1.<br><br>There WAS a KV-1 with an 85mm gun, but the IS-1 was a completely new tank. The KV-1 with the 85mm gun was a KV-1S (lighter version of KV-1) with the turret of the Prototype object 237 (which became the IS-1) mounted on it. So the KV-85 was essentially a KV-1S (with modified chassis) with an IS-1 turret.<br><br>The IS-1 was initially named IS-85 but later renamed IS-1 when the IS-2 was introduced.<br><br>I know these tank chats are slightly simplified, but please don&apos;t get details like that wrong. People tend to get confused.

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