ISU-130

lotharlutjens · ISU-130

Has anyone seen this

http://www.jagdtiger.de/index2.ht...tiger.de/SovietVeh/ISU-130-01.htm

I consider myself a fairly decent tank buff but somehow this one escaped me. The ISU-130.

As far as I knew the main line of self propelled guns for the Soviets went something like.....

SU-57
SU-76
SU-85
SU-100
SU-122
SU-152
ISU-122
ISU-152

ISU-130 ?

Its a new one on me, does anyone know about this beast ?

Campbjj

No I never heard of it either ?????????????????

lotharlutjens

I was just reading up on it after googling ISU-130, some interesting stuff. No body can say for sure, but the general consensus seems to be that it never saw combat, but probably would of if the war had continued longer, although there seems to have actually been a few produced before the war's end though.

All these years and never heard of this beast.

And from what I can tell that would be a 130mm naval cannon........Ouch !

Sindor

They tried to mount different cannons on the SU (= KV-1)/ISU (=IS-2) chassis, depending on the gun availability. The largest was SU-203 with 203mm howitzer. But only the variants cited above were put in mass production. The reason is that the logistics costs of different ammo handling would be greater than the effect. And 130 mm naval cannon was not as much different to the 122mm IS-2 tank gun for sure.

lotharlutjens

Still though, Jagdtiger vs ISU-130, now that would have been Heavy Metal all the way.

NeuralDream

Is it the one that carried the modified 130mm Naval gun?

lotharlutjens

Andreas3

From the flames of war web site:

"Plans were developed to mount even heavier guns in the ISU. Report were coming in from Soviet intelligence that the Germans were working on a new range of super heavy tanks, and the Soviet High Command had recently met the King Tiger. In the event the rumours about new heavy tanks turned out to be overstated, and the Germans couldn’t produce the King Tiger insufficient numbers to make it a real threat, so none of these vehicle were produced during the war. If those vehicles had seen action they would have met the ISU series uparmoured and upgunned with long barrelled 152mm guns (the BL-8 and BL-10 guns), and a version armed with a modified naval gun – the 130mm S-26 firing a 33kg (72lb) shell at 900 metres per second (compared with the 122mm 25kg (55lb) shell at 780 metres per second). In other words the Red Army already had plans in place to stop any German tank developments, and the German belief that heavier and heavier tanks would win them the war was really just a fantasy."

http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&art_id=1002