• Russians reviving some old WW2 tank
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Not quite sure what was going on but it seems they fixed the tank that's been standing there for quite some time as you can see by the ground as it drives away. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aDMqFrUV8[/media] If there's any russians here mind telling what exactly was going on?
It's an ISU-152
It's a tank destroyer. It's entire purpose was to blow the shit out of other tanks.
[QUOTE=Da Big Man;38899321]It's a tank destroyer. It's entire purpose was to blow the shit out of other tanks.[/QUOTE] Well, SU-152 and ISU-152 where originally meant as bunker busters, and assault guns. When they got into combat, then it was found that it could destroy other tanks because it had such a massive gun. Most TD's don't have a howitzer though.
14:20 scared the shit out of me.
anyone know what they did to the barrel?
[QUOTE=Walrus.;38899719]14:20 scared the shit out of me.[/QUOTE] it's some of the weirdest video corruption i've seen
[QUOTE=Walrus.;38899719]14:20 scared the shit out of me.[/QUOTE] Russian Tank Destroyers had built in brain scramblers
[QUOTE=EagleEye;38900614]anyone know what they did to the barrel?[/QUOTE] From the blog in the video description, they demilitarized it with with that big ass dent and welded the breech shut. The dent really wasn't necessary but eh. Anyway, I'm not russian at all but I'm getting used to reading Google translations of it so here's a quick rundown of what happened to this thing: It was left in the town after the war to be mounted on a stone pedestal except the town couldn't afford it. It was left there for a while, doing some town work (uprooting trees) and finally abandoned with all the hatches opened. After the metal prices went up, scrappers took everything they could unscrew from it, especially the aluminum radiators which if I remember right weight about 20-30 kg empty. Unfortunately, the hatches weren't sealed shut so even though most parts inside were left alone (most of it was pig steel, nothing worth a scrapper's time) they sustained a lot of rust from the snow and rain that seeped in. Once they replaced the radiators, they changed some small engine parts (fuel pump, air filters, fuel filters) they connected 2 generators to it (I guess the batteries were flat after ~40 years of sitting there :v:) and it started, blowing out a whole lot of bullshit from its exhaust system. It's pretty fucking badass they managed to just start it up after so many years without any kind of care, Soviet engineering. [editline]19th December 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=milkandcooki;38900693]Russian Tank Destroyers had built in brain scramblers[/QUOTE] Hearing that thing coming at you while wearing a grey uniform would surely scramble your brain :v: That, and the interference created by a 38,8 litre diesel engine running would surely fuck with a camera.
Looks like most of it needs a bit of grease.
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;38899375]Well, SU-152 and ISU-152 where originally meant as bunker busters, and assault guns. When they got into combat, then it was found that it could destroy other tanks because it had such a massive gun. Most TD's don't have a howitzer though.[/QUOTE] ISU-152's rounds lacked the velocity to penetrate the armour of german heavy tanks. But the rounds weighted so much that they cracked the welding works of the armour when they hit. However, the cannon wasn't designed to kill tanks, so it was inaccurate. The ammo was heavy and it took long to reload, not to mention low ammo capacity. The front-armour was 75mm and your common PzKpfw IV's 75mm L/48 cannon could penetrate it without trouble. This was fixed in ISU-152 where they increased it to 120mm, but that in turn increased weight by over 2 tons and decreased it's mobility. They however at the time of introduction, were only tanks capable of knocking out Heavy german tanks and were also usually used en-masse to negate the slow-reloading rate. Also few people know that in the cold war russians developed as early as 1950 nuclear rounds that IS-152 and ISU-152 could shoot without modifications. And there were [B]a lot[/B] of ISU-152 tanks around 1950's :v: [editline]20th December 2012[/editline] Nice to see old tank still going with a little maintainance after sitting in same spot for decades
[video=youtube;Jr0EvRNw6nU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0EvRNw6nU[/video]
I love how the antishake made the watermark in the corner fly about whenever the camera moves
[QUOTE=kaze4159;38906713]I love how the antishake made the watermark in the corner fly about whenever the camera moves[/QUOTE] It did a damn good job at stabilizing the video though.
So this is what happens to my SU-152 after it gets blown up in WoT. :v:
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