its actually smaller than you think, quite low to the ground compared to the panther or tiger II which tower over people. more armored than either thanks to this fact.
@@foreignfat6009 The reason it's not crude or unrefined is the same reason relatively few of them were made. Russian stuff has to be unrefined and crude for them to properly mass produce them.
The IS-7 never progressed beyond the prototype stage. The IS-8 would be the culmination of the lineage with 14.5mm KPV heavy machine guns in place of the 7.62mm DT and SG-43 heavy machine guns on preceding IS series tanks
@@christian9125abd yeah I consider it as a ww2 tank technically, I did read once that some saw services during the final days of ww2 against Japan but don’t know if it’s true at least there is no real proof. Anyway even t-34 was sufficient on this frontline … so I don’t think it was useful or worth to send them so far …
@@Bagration421 the is3 is kinda also showing that germany lost the battle on tank development against soviets in ww2 unlike what most people say that germany was way ahead with the king tiger which is not true especially when looking at efficiency
@@christian9125abd Tiger II COULD work same with every other late Germany tank in ww2. Problems started with materials so from the very start and ended with low fuel supply. Also I didnt search it up to what extent it's true but everytime when I was talking with my grandma about war she always said Germans loose not against soviets but against Ded Moroz.
@@user-rl8hf8kt1r yes, but like the FV-4005 project was literally developed to allow the british to penetrate IS-3s frontally. with better munitions and the USSR abandoning HT because they lack strategic mobility and reliability and aren’t that useful in a nuclear war the USSR assumed was the most likely form a war with the west would be, the IS-3 wasn’t used or mass-produced, and so the FV stopped development aswell
It was introduced in late 1945 and honestly it wasn't great. Stalin wanted it because it looks intimidating. With the poor quality of steel and welds it was prone to cracking if hit by a large caliber shell, the king tigers long 88 would theoretically be able to go straight through the front and if not, would likely break a weld....if either tank didn't break down from transmission issues which both were prone to. Because both tanks used transmissions for "lighter" tanks, the Tiger and KV-1 respectively. It was essentially the soviets king tiger but lower quality.
@@dwilson3297 Theoretics never match reality. IS-3 armour was able to withstand its own gun, the 88mm long was as pea shooter by comparison, but the 105mm would made short work of this tank. The IS-7 however, what a nightmare that thing would have been.
@@SMGJohnno. Lol. The 88 in the king tiger was one of the best tank guns of the war. The js3 main gun was developed as a artillery gun. 2 part ammunition in a cramped turret with the gunner in a awkward position meant the accuracy was horrible. And that front end didn't stop main guns of any tank in service at the time. It was more for show. It did it's job as a propaganda tool though.
@@SMGJohnThe is-7 of which 6 prototypes were made and never entered service due to many of the same issues as the is3, also having the same issues with weight as the Maus would have, ie not being able to cross bridges and destroying roads. Still would have been cool, I agree. The is-3 was NOT a good tank BUT neither was the King Tiger, statistically you were better off in a medium tank due to reliability, these heavy tanks tended to tear themselves apart. And yes, penetration tests proved that it would likely be penned by the high velocity 88 on the King Tiger during medium/close range combat conditions. The 122mm D-25 on the IS-3 had 800ms shell velocity compared to the 1130ms of the 8,8 cm KwK 43. The cast armor on the IS-3 was a weak point because cast armor tended to shatter and spall badly when it was hit hard enough especially on the poor quality steel and welds at the time due to rushed production. Like modern tank combat, it matters who go the first shot off, but at long ranges both tanks would likely fail to kill each other due to loss of velocity. The Germans would likely be able to get the first shot off due to higher quality optics, but probably wouldn't pen anything under 600 meters, same with the IS-3. Velocity mixed with armor means both tanks would have to be fairly close to guarantee a kill.
idk if it was mentioned in the video but one of the initial reasons the IS-3 in particular was chosen for production despite its flaws and competitors was because it was so imposing. Stalin knew exactly how this machine would look in a victory parade, and in 1945 it was said the mere sight of the IS-3 parading down the streets spurred the cold war into overdrive, beginning a global arms race to outmatch the machine. Whats even scarier is Stalin's defense doctrines mean that so many of these 80 year old machines will still run to this day after a few hours of tinkering.
Pretty sure Russian separatists in Donetsk managed to start up an IS-3 that was a monument. A MONUMENT! So it spent over 80 years in nature enduring rain/snow storms and other rough Eastern European weather and still managed to start up, that's damn impressive!
@@TaitLawrence-xl2xb Doubt it was really 80 years, more like 60ish but still that's pretty damn impressive that they got it to start and just drove it off that.
@@TaitLawrence-xl2xb I knew which one you were talking about, hence why the whole "80 years" was a bit of a stretch. Still it's damn amazing that they just drove that IS-3 on that pedestal and did nothing, plus them like 60+ years later just cranking that up like nothing.
@@RayanRayan-ih1sz Well, two could go against one another, since most German heavy tanks had less than 50% of reliability. Would be fun to see the Tiger II that breaks down constantly, and an IS-3 that is unreliable.
@@RayanRayan-ih1sz it had armor that could be penned by only American modern for their time tanks, and even in Korea the is3 still had good armor. The only way to destroy it was to shoot it until the armor starts to fail and the plates separated
The thing I find most intimidating - it came out in 1945! The Allied commanders would have really crapped their pants seeing this thing come out at the VE parade
Fortunately their fears weren't as founded as they appeared. IS-3 had a lot of problems. Still not a nice thing to run into but if you could crack a King Tiger, you can crack this too.
In games it really feels like a slow very tough killing machine but if this short is anything to go by seems like irl its even meaner then in games. Impressive
@@Cormano980 Can confirm, when I was at Ft Knox for OSUT back in 2006 we were given a tour of the Patton Museum there and I still remember how massive the King Tiger there was especially considering we’d gone out and done the driver training course on the Abrams not but a week or so earlier. I might be getting it confused with the museum at Hood it’s been a good minute, but pretty sure it was at Knox.
The horrifying thing is, when you realize most of your AT shells are just bouncing off of the Behemoth and not stopping it. However, somewhere it has been recorded that the Hetzer Tank Destroyer has on its kill list two JS1 Tanks. Don't really know, anybody else hear this tale?
@@kushaliyersharma9688 . Yeah, but I have heard of a M8 Scout Car disabling a Pnzr 4 F1 during the Battle of the Bulge. Stalked it from cover and shot it in the rump! Or two StuGs holding up a Soviet Tank Regiment. Other times, the Tanks survive and get revenge. Such as the time a VC tried using a 75mm recoilless rifle on a M48A2 during the war in Nam. The M48 lost a track busted, a road wheel, and the crew was rocked. But they recovered and started pumping Beehive Rounds, 7.62, 12.7mm, and 5.56mm into the forest along with the rest of the Troop. Latter found where multiple blood slicks and a wrecked recoilless rifle. But, as you said. Any tank has at least one weak spot. I.E. the T80s and T-90s.
@@willthorson4543 bs. For one the armour on the is3 was much better than the is2, it could even bounce a 128mm round. 2, having two part ammo is actually NEEDED to crew a gun of such calibar inside a somewhat cramped tank. I hear the IS2 is cramped, but when I look at it's dimentions it looks bigger than a t 34 85s turret. In that apsect it could b better I really want cheiftain to review it.
Likely cold and probably has leaky or gunky injectors. Maybe a cylinder has a stuck ring. Idk the thing is ancient, Russian, and made for war. It's impressive that it doesn't give Thomas the Tank Engine a run for his money.
@@bigbrowntau Funny thing is that the Panzerfaust would just as easily have defeated the IS-3 just as well as any other tank, because HEAT does not care about sloped armour
@@captmoha3787 old heat shells and granades didnt negated the angling factor, they just reduced it like capped shells, but yeah panzerfausts had a higher penetration than most WW2 anti tank guns the Panzerfaust 100 was around 280mm of pen.
Russian tanks back than: As long as there is fuel in my barrels i keep driving. My crew might suffer inside me, but good luck penning my armor. Russian Tanks today: I dont feel like going to work today.
For my fellow war thunder enjoyers, imagine if this thing was at 6.3/6.7 and then you've got a fraction of the idea how fucking *terrified* the Allies were when these things rolled through the Berlin gates.
It’s crazy, In 2013 I (16 at the time) stood in the engine bay of that tank when the engine was out of it. At the time I did not know the history of the tank but looking back it was a vary cool experience
When I see this tank on the move , it has a special effect, it’s like watching an MMA fighter with cauliflower ears enter the room , you just know that he can absolutely destroy you beyond recovery .
The conqueror was specifically designed to combat the new soviet heavies from that time and the IS-3 was used throughout the cold War, so it too was a cold War tank
Some 5 years ago I was there at the Bastogne barracks. That same IS-3 was in the workshop at the time but we were allowed into the workshop to see it anyway.
seeing tanks in video is one thing. I once stood next to a T-54, that thing was so massive and imposing. I can’t imagine how it’d feel if it were rolling at me
This tank's engine was really loud. You could hear it for miles away, and yes, I know that's the same engine as the other IS, but they way it was put in the tank made it super loud
The real menacing factor is when your tank commander tells to load AP. And you and your squad of 3 other tanks prepare to fire, it’s a side shot on the turret so it’s an easy penetrate since it’s not the front. Your commander tells fire and all 4 tanks fire AP directly at the turret to try to get it knocks out in one second and you watch in terror as all 4 shells ricochet off with a loud ding as you see the IS3 slowly turn its turret in your general direction
"The enemy has been reinforced with a behemoth"
The behemoth is nearly blind
its actually smaller than you think, quite low to the ground compared to the panther or tiger II which tower over people. more armored than either thanks to this fact.
Ah yes good old battlefield one, wish it didn’t die off
@@IrexParrotTR It didn't really, you vmcsn find full server (tho not every game Mode) pretty easily
@@tatotaytoman5934 its wider tho.
'Shell shattered'
'Ricochet'
'Non-penetration'
'Hit'
STONK _🗿_
Usually when I drive this it’s “crew knocked out” through my front armor
i think they should change it to "shell refuse to die" when you shooting a 50mm shell toword the mous
@@comradepowski6897 Well it's fun until you meet some HEAT rounds.
"YES, A HIT"
everything about it screams "breakthrough tank" indeed.
It looks like it's built like a battering ram, of course it screams "breakthrough tank"
It even breaks trough the ground
I bet it breaks through a lot of drive shafts as well. Maintenance on this thing looks like a nightmare
IS-3 goes first and draws all the fire, while IS-2 follows and actually does anything useful due to not being unergonomic nightmare😂
@@TheArklyte Yea man both tanks where ergonomic nightmares. Soviet tanks in general usually aren't so good with ergonomics.
"....Heinrich, can you hear that?"
"I can TASTE that Jans"
Hey, people finally found another German name besides Hanz and Fritz.
So nice to hear.
@@Jan_372Gustaf, Adolf, Karl, Erich, Jens, and more
@@bobidob5755I don't think they use Adolf anymore
@@Korayyoss Haha maybe not, but it's german
@Furher01wo liegt da der Unterschied?
Attack the D point!
I refuse!
Im sorry!!
Never
Allied forces have captured a zone!!!
Affirmative!
"This thing is crude, mean, and unrefined....I kind of like it". Classic. I might have to save that.
Yeah that can be said for basically anyone who likes WW2 Russian vehicles
Specially the is 2 and KV 2@@loonyshots5879
@@loonyshots5879 Well, except IS-3 was one of the few which were definitely not crude or unrefined...
@@foreignfat6009 The reason it's not crude or unrefined is the same reason relatively few of them were made. Russian stuff has to be unrefined and crude for them to properly mass produce them.
War Thunder has given me a phobia of the IS series of tanks
Real
I can confirm 😂
This abbreviation forced many rats to hide in corners, because it stands for Joseph Stalin
Also applicable in World Of Tanks, years ago before the bs op prem tanks arrived
там занижены все показатели и мощь русских танков,это во всех ваших играх
Now show us an IS-7 lmao. The IS line of takes are just brutal bro. Straight up bullies in tank form.
IS-7 are only exist as prototypes, so they only can be found in Russia
The IS-7 never progressed beyond the prototype stage. The IS-8 would be the culmination of the lineage with 14.5mm KPV heavy machine guns in place of the 7.62mm DT and SG-43 heavy machine guns on preceding IS series tanks
I still consider the IS-4M as the king of the IS series, it being the heaviest mass produced tank in the red army. It's pretty much the Soviet maus.
@@jantokarski1623 the Russian Mouse would probably be the prototype Object 279 from the early 1960s
The Is-7 was scrapped I think
This tank look absolutely amazing and so modern the way it was drawn for 1945, I mean the design itself was so futuristic.
It really does look like something belonging to an old sci-fi movie.
it was already being built in 1945, so for me it is a ww2 tank even though it came to late for fighting action
@@christian9125abd yeah I consider it as a ww2 tank technically, I did read once that some saw services during the final days of ww2 against Japan but don’t know if it’s true at least there is no real proof. Anyway even t-34 was sufficient on this frontline … so I don’t think it was useful or worth to send them so far …
@@Bagration421 the is3 is kinda also showing that germany lost the battle on tank development against soviets in ww2 unlike what most people say that germany was way ahead with the king tiger which is not true especially when looking at efficiency
@@christian9125abd Tiger II COULD work same with every other late Germany tank in ww2. Problems started with materials so from the very start and ended with low fuel supply. Also I didnt search it up to what extent it's true but everytime when I was talking with my grandma about war she always said Germans loose not against soviets but against Ded Moroz.
I just love the pike nose , looks so mean!
...Ich auch!!!
this is legendary soviet pike nose
enginneering boys on their way to make the british develop the FV-4005 🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯
@@gonozal8_962that thing canon housing can't take a heavy machine gun fire
@@user-rl8hf8kt1r yes, but like the FV-4005 project was literally developed to allow the british to penetrate IS-3s frontally. with better munitions and the USSR abandoning HT because they lack strategic mobility and reliability and aren’t that useful in a nuclear war the USSR assumed was the most likely form a war with the west would be, the IS-3 wasn’t used or mass-produced, and so the FV stopped development aswell
Having seen the one currently in Kansas I can concur. It's up for sale currently if anyone has the scratch to buy it.
I’ll go 1/256
Nah don't sell a historical properties. Let people see it not getting destroyed and preserved until it's eaten by ages.
@@YuriZhevnev It's in a private collection currently, like so many others. So no difference.
I got 5 on it, who wants to split ?
@@Natedawgontheright Mee meeeee!!!!!!
You only understand fear when you see it stop and its turret slowly rotates towards you...
- a War Thunder player
Yeah but that reload ....
@@majklknight7455 reload don't matter if you don't get to fire back...
Imagine trying to knock through all that with '40s and '50s era anti-armour weapons
It was introduced in late 1945 and honestly it wasn't great. Stalin wanted it because it looks intimidating. With the poor quality of steel and welds it was prone to cracking if hit by a large caliber shell, the king tigers long 88 would theoretically be able to go straight through the front and if not, would likely break a weld....if either tank didn't break down from transmission issues which both were prone to. Because both tanks used transmissions for "lighter" tanks, the Tiger and KV-1 respectively. It was essentially the soviets king tiger but lower quality.
@@dwilson3297
Theoretics never match reality.
IS-3 armour was able to withstand its own gun, the 88mm long was as pea shooter by comparison, but the 105mm would made short work of this tank. The IS-7 however, what a nightmare that thing would have been.
@@SMGJohnno. Lol. The 88 in the king tiger was one of the best tank guns of the war. The js3 main gun was developed as a artillery gun. 2 part ammunition in a cramped turret with the gunner in a awkward position meant the accuracy was horrible. And that front end didn't stop main guns of any tank in service at the time. It was more for show. It did it's job as a propaganda tool though.
@@SMGJohnThe is-7 of which 6 prototypes were made and never entered service due to many of the same issues as the is3, also having the same issues with weight as the Maus would have, ie not being able to cross bridges and destroying roads. Still would have been cool, I agree. The is-3 was NOT a good tank BUT neither was the King Tiger, statistically you were better off in a medium tank due to reliability, these heavy tanks tended to tear themselves apart. And yes, penetration tests proved that it would likely be penned by the high velocity 88 on the King Tiger during medium/close range combat conditions. The 122mm D-25 on the IS-3 had 800ms shell velocity compared to the 1130ms of the 8,8 cm KwK 43. The cast armor on the IS-3 was a weak point because cast armor tended to shatter and spall badly when it was hit hard enough especially on the poor quality steel and welds at the time due to rushed production. Like modern tank combat, it matters who go the first shot off, but at long ranges both tanks would likely fail to kill each other due to loss of velocity. The Germans would likely be able to get the first shot off due to higher quality optics, but probably wouldn't pen anything under 600 meters, same with the IS-3. Velocity mixed with armor means both tanks would have to be fairly close to guarantee a kill.
@@willthorson4543
"LOL" Soviet tests debunks you, waste of time trying to argue about anything else.
You can tell it’s a Soviet tank with that famous smoke plume.
That's nonsense
it's prob sitting there for 70 years old, watchu expect. Unlike the Tiger 131 its being taken care off
No, soviet tanks are just that smokey@@natedebate3926
They used the same diesel engine and all 40s and 50s soviet tanks smoke more than chimney
@@RokoKruger-hk2ui if this was an American tank it would have needed a full service before even starting
Thanks for the compliment
nah bro was there
Got a big sense of nostalgia looking back at how the three top gear presenters would talk about flawed cars that they loved. Great content
Same!
Built in automatic smoke screen generator! Saves weight as you no longer have to carry smoke greaves😎
When i was in military it was always so easy to see where the mtlbv:s and bmp:s were driving, there was a huge cloud of blue smoke wherever they drove
@@taistelusammakko5088welp, that's diesel for ya
idk if it was mentioned in the video but one of the initial reasons the IS-3 in particular was chosen for production despite its flaws and competitors was because it was so imposing. Stalin knew exactly how this machine would look in a victory parade, and in 1945 it was said the mere sight of the IS-3 parading down the streets spurred the cold war into overdrive, beginning a global arms race to outmatch the machine.
Whats even scarier is Stalin's defense doctrines mean that so many of these 80 year old machines will still run to this day after a few hours of tinkering.
Pretty sure Russian separatists in Donetsk managed to start up an IS-3 that was a monument. A MONUMENT! So it spent over 80 years in nature enduring rain/snow storms and other rough Eastern European weather and still managed to start up, that's damn impressive!
@@TaitLawrence-xl2xb Doubt it was really 80 years, more like 60ish but still that's pretty damn impressive that they got it to start and just drove it off that.
@@legoeasycompany Well the IS-3 was in production from 1945-1947, it's 2024 which means it's around 79-77 years old
@@legoeasycompany Sorry, the video was from 2014, meaning 69-67 years
@@TaitLawrence-xl2xb I knew which one you were talking about, hence why the whole "80 years" was a bit of a stretch. Still it's damn amazing that they just drove that IS-3 on that pedestal and did nothing, plus them like 60+ years later just cranking that up like nothing.
The is3 wouldve absolutely dominated in the late 40s if WW2 kept going
Probably not because it wasn't reliable at all and reliability is the most important thing on the tank
@@tencosiezastanawiap2992true, but no tank in ww2(German and Soviet) was very reliable.
True but is-3 was also more and more unreliable it was literally trash@@odylom
@@RayanRayan-ih1sz Well, two could go against one another, since most German heavy tanks had less than 50% of reliability. Would be fun to see the Tiger II that breaks down constantly, and an IS-3 that is unreliable.
@@RayanRayan-ih1sz it had armor that could be penned by only American modern for their time tanks, and even in Korea the is3 still had good armor. The only way to destroy it was to shoot it until the armor starts to fail and the plates separated
This tank is about 80 years old...damn! It is a beast!
Mfs will call this tank unreliable when russia managed to start up a monument version and it worked
Because USSR made battle tanks, not propaganda tanks. "If it doesn't start being half broken half outdated - we don't need it."
The thing I find most intimidating - it came out in 1945! The Allied commanders would have really crapped their pants seeing this thing come out at the VE parade
It was at the VE parade
Patton told a visibly shaken British General, dont worry buddy were still on your side.
Fortunately their fears weren't as founded as they appeared. IS-3 had a lot of problems. Still not a nice thing to run into but if you could crack a King Tiger, you can crack this too.
@@PJ-pj8lrit's a myth spread by the russians. They always try to "shock" the west due to their inferiority complex
@@PJ-pj8lrnever happened, also not much scarier then a Tiger or King Tiger so why would they be scared?
In games it really feels like a slow very tough killing machine but if this short is anything to go by seems like irl its even meaner then in games. Impressive
The replacement for the IS-3 was the T-54/55 tank. A tank that looks as mean and ferocious as the Weinermobile when compared to the IS-3.
Thats definitely a worthy "badass" antagonist to the King Tiger.
This and the King Tiger, the meanest looking tanks
It is bad Looking 😮Big Katz were Pretty 😂😂❤❤❤
Side by side the Tiger II almost makes the IS-3 look small. It's amazing how huge those things were.
@@angryzergling7832 yes, they're big even by today's standards
@@Cormano980 Can confirm, when I was at Ft Knox for OSUT back in 2006 we were given a tour of the Patton Museum there and I still remember how massive the King Tiger there was especially considering we’d gone out and done the driver training course on the Abrams not but a week or so earlier. I might be getting it confused with the museum at Hood it’s been a good minute, but pretty sure it was at Knox.
The horrifying thing is, when you realize most of your AT shells are just bouncing off of the Behemoth and not stopping it. However, somewhere it has been recorded that the Hetzer Tank Destroyer has on its kill list two JS1 Tanks. Don't really know, anybody else hear this tale?
There are plenty of weak spots in every tank, its not unheard of. A t-34 crew was known to take out two king tigers on the sides of hull and turret.
@@kushaliyersharma9688 . Yeah, but I have heard of a M8 Scout Car disabling a Pnzr 4 F1 during the Battle of the Bulge. Stalked it from cover and shot it in the rump! Or two StuGs holding up a Soviet Tank Regiment. Other times, the Tanks survive and get revenge. Such as the time a VC tried using a 75mm recoilless rifle on a M48A2 during the war in Nam. The M48 lost a track busted, a road wheel, and the crew was rocked. But they recovered and started pumping Beehive Rounds, 7.62, 12.7mm, and 5.56mm into the forest along with the rest of the Troop. Latter found where multiple blood slicks and a wrecked recoilless rifle. But, as you said. Any tank has at least one weak spot. I.E. the T80s and T-90s.
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@@Lamentors3Co No, no no. You're not going to do my boy the M8 dirty like that. That wasn't a Pz.IV...that was Tiger I!
Beautiful piece of machinery regardless of it's effectiveness
What a beast!
For essentially being designed during WW2, it looks modern especially the turret
"Looks modern" because the soviets hadnt changed their turret design in 50 years.
Dome
Dome
Dome with light
Dome with light and ERA
@@QueueWithACapitalQ
Dome Depot!
@@TOFMDrone Dome Depot! ua-cam.com/video/EalqLRoGIeA/v-deo.html
@@QueueWithACapitalQ it does however, look a bit similar to the T95E6's turret used on M60A1/3, but a fat version.
@@QueueWithACapitalQif you radically change your turret design every time, then it is not a good design to begin with tbh.
So COOL!
Imagine being a commander in a Tiger 1 then seeing this aiming at you, even if you angle there is no hope of you surviving
Imagine IS series having the Red Eyes from T90.
Kind of just happy to see A piece of history that is still running and operable.
Im gonna pull up to mcdonalds with this and see if they still say the ice cream machine is broken
Ah yes. The Stalinium Tank.
I remember there's a picture of IS-3 that able to deflect 105mm apds
at what range? THAT is the question. ;)
IS-3 goes first and draws all the fire, while IS-2 follows and actually does anything useful due to not being unergonomic nightmare😂
Both tanks were nightmares to crew. 2 part ammunition in Cramped turret. The Armor on the is3 was not any better than a js2.
@@willthorson4543 bs. For one the armour on the is3 was much better than the is2, it could even bounce a 128mm round. 2, having two part ammo is actually NEEDED to crew a gun of such calibar inside a somewhat cramped tank. I hear the IS2 is cramped, but when I look at it's dimentions it looks bigger than a t 34 85s turret. In that apsect it could b better I really want cheiftain to review it.
M26 Pershing with T30E16 HVAP:
*"ZOOM ZOOM"*
That is possibly the most agressive looking tank I've ever seen. Very impressive!
Certainly much more menacing within the context of its time
Thats alot of smoke just coming out just driving
Standard for soviet trash
Likely cold and probably has leaky or gunky injectors. Maybe a cylinder has a stuck ring. Idk the thing is ancient, Russian, and made for war. It's impressive that it doesn't give Thomas the Tank Engine a run for his money.
One of my favorite tanks ❤
That exhaust is a smoke screen by itself
"You are being rescued, comrade. Please do not resist."
It’s a lot like the King Tiger, only actually built in significant numbers
And like the King Tiger, it's impact in actual combat was minimal.
@@BHuang92of course, quickly outpaced by the MBT concept: Centurion, T-54, and M47 Patton
@@BHuang92 bruh, because there was no war
They only built two thousand of them and moved on from there. It never.
fought anywhere
@@stevewhite3424 more than 5 times more IS3s we’re built than king tigers
Tanks for the Memories folks.
Even I felt the warmth coming from the old grandfather
Imagine sitting in your king tiger, out of fuel, entire gearbox shattered, half of your shells defective and you see dozens of these guys crest a hill
or worse yet, you're a 15 year old boy with a panzerfaust in Berlin and see that coming with a dozen men riding on the back.
You would never see this thing because this thing came too late for the WW2
and the funny thing is the IS-3 also have these problem
@@bigbrowntau Funny thing is that the Panzerfaust would just as easily have defeated the IS-3 just as well as any other tank, because HEAT does not care about sloped armour
@@captmoha3787 old heat shells and granades didnt negated the angling factor, they just reduced it like capped shells, but yeah panzerfausts had a higher penetration than most WW2 anti tank guns the Panzerfaust 100 was around 280mm of pen.
Stealth level 0
Intimidation Level
To think that the soviets build this tank as the counterpart for the tiger 2.
That is overkill indeed.
Every warthunder players nightmare
Its not that hard to kill in war thunder.
Oh sure?@@Ianforlife-mv3kl
@@admiralkosovothefirst if it is uptier for the is3 and it meets leopard 1, then it will be a challenge for the is3 to survive.
bro i face IS 3 with pantheerr@@Ianforlife-mv3kl
@@admiralkosovothefirst sometimes i even see players dare to bring a is3 at 10.0 and above, and yes with panther rates i see them too.
Crude, mean and unrefined, kinda like it. Like when I met my future wife.
Russian tanks back than: As long as there is fuel in my barrels i keep driving. My crew might suffer inside me, but good luck penning my armor.
Russian Tanks today: I dont feel like going to work today.
Modern Russian Tanks : Hmmmmm i feel like a Helicopter today XDDDD
For my fellow war thunder enjoyers, imagine if this thing was at 6.3/6.7 and then you've got a fraction of the idea how fucking *terrified* the Allies were when these things rolled through the Berlin gates.
"Anyone got a can opener?"
You should go back to Russia they have a ton of new western tanks in their museums to review now even Abrams.
We have hade all your tanks for years now (almost)
You know how many of those fuckers where left behind by there buyers.
Congrats, you have old surplus NATO gear to look at and pretend countless Russian lives have not been thrown away.
The tracks width and seperation distance is sweet, that thing could float over a bog.
Seeing an IS-3 move makes the IS-7 an even more horrifying behemoth considering what the IS-7 could do
Pov your a German soldier inside a small tank and hear a loud tractor sound in the distance and just see a IS-3
Imagine being a peaceful protestor in 1956 budapest and seeing this rolling towards the crowd
It makes it’s own smoke screen
It’s crazy, In 2013 I (16 at the time) stood in the engine bay of that tank when the engine was out of it. At the time I did not know the history of the tank but looking back it was a vary cool experience
Now imagine this with the IS-7 or Object 279
Awesome
love the squeeky metal clunking sound tanks make when moving
It has its own smoke screen
That engine sounds great on start up
'We didnt even scratch them'
'Hit'
Early morning me stumbling my way to bathroom.
You ain't kidding. That thing is scary.
Pure stalinium
Rather cool that theres still a hand full of is3's still able to run to this day
that tank is beast ❤❤
Their is3 is awesome, but you should see and hear their isu 152. Everything was shaking XD
Me : " Hanz... Why all of my cursor were red when aiming those tank "
Hanz : " Just go home now shall we 😢 "
Brings new meaning to the term “fog of war”.
When I see this tank on the move , it has a special effect, it’s like watching an MMA fighter with cauliflower ears enter the room , you just know that he can absolutely destroy you beyond recovery .
This was an absolute monster in WoT back in the day. It could handle top tiers with the right angleing.
Imagine a huge armored charge just by IS-3s. You would probably fall over from the vibrations alone
What a beast
Crude, mean, unrefined. I now identify as an IS3.
And don't forget, that thing had pretty much the weight of the Panther. Amazing tank.
Conqueror: hold my tea
Is3 is so strong it has to be compared to a cold war tank
The conqueror was specifically designed to combat the new soviet heavies from that time and the IS-3 was used throughout the cold War, so it too was a cold War tank
@@BelugaChonkyyeah but the is3 was made after ww2 (during the Cold War)
@@DavidNaval so was the conqueror
I’ve always adored its shape……🇬🇧
"it's crude, it's unrefined, I kinda like it" lmfao I love her
"How unsubtle this tank is" 😂😂
Has a secondary mission of mosquito fumigation. 😅
That thing has the right lines. Not really sure why but its very pleasing to look at.
Some 5 years ago I was there at the Bastogne barracks. That same IS-3 was in the workshop at the time but we were allowed into the workshop to see it anyway.
seeing tanks in video is one thing. I once stood next to a T-54, that thing was so massive and imposing. I can’t imagine how it’d feel if it were rolling at me
Imagine rounding a corner and seeing THAT coming towards you!
I didn’t realize how big that tank was until I saw the crewman poking his head out of the hatch
Imagine being an intelligence officer in 1945 seeing this thing rolling down the street in the Berlin victory parade.
This tank's engine was really loud. You could hear it for miles away, and yes, I know that's the same engine as the other IS, but they way it was put in the tank made it super loud
For a second, i thought you were driving it as well lol
It even provides it's own rear smoke screen!
Prep AT!
The real menacing factor is when your tank commander tells to load AP. And you and your squad of 3 other tanks prepare to fire, it’s a side shot on the turret so it’s an easy penetrate since it’s not the front.
Your commander tells fire and all 4 tanks fire AP directly at the turret to try to get it knocks out in one second and you watch in terror as all 4 shells ricochet off with a loud ding as you see the IS3 slowly turn its turret in your general direction
One of the sexiest tanks ever
I'm in love with is-3