The NIGHTMARE of Stalin's IS-2 Tanks That Shattered Hitler's Vistula Line in 22 Days, 1945

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The NIGHTMARE of Stalin's IS-2 Tanks That Shattered Hitler's Vistula Line in 22 Days, 1945

The IS-2 carried a 122mm field-gun barrel in a turret. It fired only about 28 rounds, two or three a minute, because the ammunition came in two pieces - and one hit could crack a Tiger's turret at over a thousand yards or bring down a fortress wall. That is why the Red Army built it as a breakthrough weapon and handed every regiment of them Guards status on the day it formed. In January 1945 those Guards Heavy Tank Regiments led Zhukov and Konev about 300 miles from the Vistula to the Oder in 22 days, shattered Army Group A, and finished the drive about 40 miles from Berlin.

In this video:
The 122mm D-25T: why one field-gun barrel meant 28 rounds, 2-3 a minute, and a war-changing punch
BR-471 versus the postwar myth - what the 1945 round actually did to a Tiger's turret
The 21-tank Guards Heavy Tank Regiments, Guards on formation, sent where a line had to be cracked
Vistula-Oder, 12 January 1945: 300 miles in 22 days and the shattering of Army Group A under Harpe
The slow siege-hammer as the tip of the fastest advance of the war - and why it halted at the Oder

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