I didn’t use the picture as reference when I wrote the text. I wrote down whatever the source said. But after checking all sources now, all agree that the turret face was 350-240mm thick. I have corrected my post.
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Nah needs to be added, anything to knock “shoulda been there” people down a peg
+1. We need Is-7
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Dear god… The IS-7 I’ve fought enough of those let us have T57 as well but +1 anyways cause soviet heavy tanks are cool
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+1 It will be a great prize for the next event
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+1 as I just learned of this.
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I would love for it being in the next battlepass. Might bring more people to actually do it. But, nonethless, anyway if it was brung in, it will be great.
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+1 Tech-Tree vehicle. This will only be fair. The Russian Maus.
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Hello, sorry for the delay, but there’s no source that says it would have 350 mm on the frontal turret, only the mantlet. In that source where the IS-4, KV-220, and IS-7 mod 46 are listed, it appears: " “Frontal turret armor 240-250 mm” literally, in all sources about this tank it appears as 240/50 mm On the front of the turret and 350 mm on the mantlet, the only thing that contradicts all that is that image that says 350 mm Both on the mantlet and on the turret face, where did you get that image from?
The issue was mostly that I could not find anything to clearly support the 240mm claim.
The dogswar article claim 240mm. But I considered it the least reputable to begin with. As such I have now gone over and trimmed down the sources section as it was bloated with unnecessary and less reputable sources. And several had also become unavailable.
Tomasz Szulc article (zbiam.pl) claim the turret front reached 350mm. Obviously that could refer to the mantlet, but without clarification I can’t make that conclusion. However even this article I thought less reputable. Though I did mentally use it as verification.
Pavlov and Pavlov (Domestic Armoured Vehicles 1946-1965 (2021)) also do not make any claims on the turret front thickness directly. At least I can’t find it. Though I only have this online version which is hard to navigate. And although the one diagram they offer depict 240mm.
There are grounds for doubt. As it is both an older diagram (dated September 1945), and the shape depicted as being 240mm does not match the turret front shape. But there is an outline more closely resembling the turret front wedge that is not accounted for in thickness.
I went back to their 2010 edition, and on page 361 they claim 350mm. It is vague, just like Szulc, in that it only mentions turret front, but it is the best I can go off of.
I do not know where I got these images from.
They were possibly from the sites that have now been taken down. Though I wouldn’t put it past me if I found them elsewhere. Nonetheless, reverse image searching gives me nothing.
As it stands, I have a hard time advocating for the 240mm claim.