In this 5th episode of my series looking at World War 2 Tanks That Need Adding to War Thunder, we take a look at Soviet tanks of the World War 2 period!
So join me as we take a look at the a tank that was intended to replace the T-34, various attempts to upgun existing tanks, a number of T-34 variants that still need to be added, a large number of heavy tanks and some unique Soviet flamethrower tanks!
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Tanks featured in this episode ⬇️ T-40 T-30 T-60 T-37 T-38 Khtz-16 NI-Tank BT-7E/BT-7M T-28 fitted with 76.2mm F-32 gun T-28 fitted with 85mm F-30 gun T-34/76 Model 1940 T-34/76 Model 1941 T-34/76 Model 1942 T-34/76 Model 1943 T-34M T-43 T-34/76 fitted with S-53 85mm gun T-34-85 (D-5T) T-34-85 Model 1944 T-34-85 Model 1945 T-34-85 Model 1946 T-34-85 fitted with STP-S-53 “Taran” 1 plane gun stabiliser T-44 T-54 KV-1 Model 1939 KV-1 Model 1940 KV-1 Model 1941 KV-1E KV-1 Model 1942 KV-1S KV-10/KV-1K T-150/KV-150 Object 221 Object 222 Object 223/KV-3 KV-7 (U-14)/KV-7-2 KV-9 KV-13 Object 238 KV-1S fitted with 85mm S-28 gun KV-100 Object 244/IS-3 Object 701 Object 253/IS-6 with electrical transmission OT-34 OT-34-85 KV-8 KV-8S
Soviet Light Tanks: 00:00 Soviet Medium Tanks: 08:16 Soviet Heavy Tanks: 24:02 Soviet Flamethrower Tanks: 56:06
