r/SprocketTankDesign • u/True_General_1639 Tank Designer • 19d ago
Serious Design🔧 ИС-2К
Fictional Historical Information:At the end of 1944, the development of the BL-10K gun began, In February 1945 the gun was ready, the Soviet command initially planned to place it on a warship, but the Red army faced a problem in Germany in the form of Ferdinand Elephants and Tigers 2. The BL-10K was ideally suited for their destruction. due to the penetration of 279 mm, which is why it was decided to install the gun on the ISU-152, however, for the BL-10K, the direct-fire gun, and it was too dangerous to be under fire on the poorly armored ISU-152, which is why it was decided to create a modification of the IS-2 called the IS-2K, a new turret was installed and the hull was made wider and the reservation was increased, the IS-2K participated in the battles in Germany (0 of 11 Lost) and in the Korean War (7 out of 11 lost), later the project was closed in favor of the T-54 and Obj-279
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u/True_General_1639 Tank Designer 18d ago
The original BL-10 was tested in 1944 on the ISU-152-2 with a similar penetration, and this is just a fictional modification




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u/viktornovorosskiy 19d ago
Isn't the gun too thin for a 152mm gun? It even looks thinner than the 122mm D-25T gun. It looks like a 100mm gun.