IS tank family

Iosif Stalin tank
Iosif Stalin tank
	IS-2 model 1943 and IS-3 at the Great Patriotic War Museum, Minsk, Belarus
Type	Heavy tank
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
Used by	Soviet Union; China; Cuba; Czechoslovakia; East Germany; Hungary; Egypt; Poland; North Korea
Wars	World War II; Korean War; Hungarian Revolution of 1956; Six-Day War; Prague Spring; 1991-1992 South Ossetia War; War in Donbas;
Production history
Designer	Zhozef Kotin; Nikolay Dukhov
Designed	1943 (IS-2); 1944 (IS-3); 1944–45 (IS-4);
Manufacturer	Kirov Factory, UZTM
Unit cost	IS-2: 264,400 rubles
Produced	1943–44 (IS-1); 1944–45 (IS-2); 1945–47 (IS-3); 1947–49 (IS-4);
No. built	207 (IS-1); 3,854 (IS-2); 2,311 (IS-3); 250 (IS-4); 6 (IS-7)(prototypes);
Specifications (IS-2 Model 1944)
Mass	46 tonnes (51 short tons; 45 long tons)
Length	9.90 m (32 ft 6 in)
Width	3.09 m (10 ft 2 in)
Height	2.73 m (8 ft 11 in)
Crew	4
Armor	IS-2 Model 1943:; Hull front: 120 mm ; Lower glacis: 100 mm at 30° angle; Turret front: 100 mm (rounded); Mantlet: 155 mm (rounded); Hull side: 90–130 mm at 9-25°; Turret side: 90 mm at 20° angle.
Main; armament	D-25T 122 mm gun (28 rounds)
Secondary; armament	1×DShK, 3×DT (2,079 rounds)
Engine	12-cyl. diesel model V-2; 600 hp (450 kW)
Power/weight	13 hp/tonne
Suspension	torsion bar
Fuel capacity	820 L (180 imp gal; 220 US gal)
Operational; range	Road:; 240 km (150 mi); Cross-country:; 180 km (110 mi)
Maximum speed	37 km/h (23 mph)

The IS tanks (Russian: ИС) were a series of heavy tanks developed as a successor to the KV-series by the Soviet Union during World War II. The IS acronym is the anglicized initialism of Joseph Stalin (Ио́сиф Ста́лин, Iosif Stalin). The heavy tanks were designed as a response to the capture of a German Tiger I in 1943. They were mainly designed as breakthrough tanks, firing a heavy high-explosive shell that was useful against entrenchments and bunkers. The IS-2 went into service in April 1944 and was used as a spearhead by the Red Army in the final stage of the Battle of Berlin. The IS-3 served on the Chinese-Soviet border, the Hungarian Revolution, the Prague Spring and on both sides of the Six-Day War. The series eventually culminated in the T-10 heavy tank.

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