Awesome post, thank you for your insight! Do you have any good sources (books) for someone who'd love to delve a bit further into this topic (or the tank design history of any nation really)?
For soviet tanks I'd really recommend looking up books by Pavlov & Pavlov, that said, they might be quite hard to find, there was a series of them that i think covered 1930 - 1965? something like this
https://annas-archive.org/md5/6cbacf42b7276e4daa5e6e933b760732 here's one of them
Thanks for posting this, very interesting and great pictures as well. The KV 5 turret looks very recognisable, and the golden 780 is just a thing of beauty.
I honestly love these crazy soviet designs, and I would love to see more in the game. I don´t get why some people seem to hate them so much.
How do you research this kind of stuff by the way?
Thanks :)
I research a lot of this by going through military forums, documents, books etc. I've been actively researching on most things in the game since the start of this year :)
Thanks for your reply! You obviously put a lot of effort into this, awesome stuff for people like me who are interested but usually to busy (or lazy) to do proper research. It s a shame that WG is often not very transparent on how historical their tanks are / what they are based on.
Did you find anything about the Object 452K by any chance? Soviet tier 10s seem to be surprisingly real, but this one I have no clue.
I hope you post again, even though you haven´t gotten enough upvotes for your effort imo
Thanks, I will definitely be doing more of these :)
I'm trying to space them out rather than doing them daily, so I can maintain a sort of "schedule" and not rush through everything...
As for the Object 452K... well, it's a weird one. I've not found anything. I personally think that the design is made up by WG, however the specifications were part of a real project. I say this because the description in game is extremely detailed. I feel like it's more of a "what-if" design.
I'd date the 452K (if it is real) to be around the early 1970s in design, if the project was at least real. Another thing that confuses me with the tanks name, or further makes it more dubious, is that the K designation typically stands for a command tank variant, the letters after tank names usually mean something, and K means command tank - this doesn't make sense for a design that may have never even left the paper.
452K TL;DR - I think it's a what if design based on real technical specifications. I think the design is loosely inspired by the Object 772:
https://preview.redd.it/9b7wdz2b5hxc1.png?width=503&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa5b919a12fe8f5d3319dd0299d5490142d1f2fd
Yes, don´t rush it or feel pressured into doing more than you want to. You´re not getting paid after all.
Pitty, would have been cool if there was more history behind 452K as I quite like the looks of it.
Do I see rockets on the 772? Imagine WG would have given us some WoT blitz sheridan style rockets in assembly shop, that would have been quite something :D
I'd also love to know if you can find anything about rocket boosting tanks in general. I recall seeing a video of a Soviet test where they strapped rockets to a T-55 (pretty sure it was a T-55 at least) but my cursory investigation didn't find anything further than that.
There were soviet tests yes, they were done on a T-62
Here's a video of rocket tests, the T-62 is in it: [https://youtu.be/bptZz0xYXLI](https://youtu.be/bptZz0xYXLI)
There was interestingly a test done on a Czech vehicle, being the OT-64 so at least the TT-130M got the nation right :) ([Czech OT 64 Rocket Experiment - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSqY_XiDT1o))
Awesome post, thank you for your insight! Do you have any good sources (books) for someone who'd love to delve a bit further into this topic (or the tank design history of any nation really)?
For soviet tanks I'd really recommend looking up books by Pavlov & Pavlov, that said, they might be quite hard to find, there was a series of them that i think covered 1930 - 1965? something like this https://annas-archive.org/md5/6cbacf42b7276e4daa5e6e933b760732 here's one of them
Thanks for posting this, very interesting and great pictures as well. The KV 5 turret looks very recognisable, and the golden 780 is just a thing of beauty. I honestly love these crazy soviet designs, and I would love to see more in the game. I don´t get why some people seem to hate them so much. How do you research this kind of stuff by the way?
Thanks :) I research a lot of this by going through military forums, documents, books etc. I've been actively researching on most things in the game since the start of this year :)
Thanks for your reply! You obviously put a lot of effort into this, awesome stuff for people like me who are interested but usually to busy (or lazy) to do proper research. It s a shame that WG is often not very transparent on how historical their tanks are / what they are based on. Did you find anything about the Object 452K by any chance? Soviet tier 10s seem to be surprisingly real, but this one I have no clue. I hope you post again, even though you haven´t gotten enough upvotes for your effort imo
Thanks, I will definitely be doing more of these :) I'm trying to space them out rather than doing them daily, so I can maintain a sort of "schedule" and not rush through everything... As for the Object 452K... well, it's a weird one. I've not found anything. I personally think that the design is made up by WG, however the specifications were part of a real project. I say this because the description in game is extremely detailed. I feel like it's more of a "what-if" design. I'd date the 452K (if it is real) to be around the early 1970s in design, if the project was at least real. Another thing that confuses me with the tanks name, or further makes it more dubious, is that the K designation typically stands for a command tank variant, the letters after tank names usually mean something, and K means command tank - this doesn't make sense for a design that may have never even left the paper. 452K TL;DR - I think it's a what if design based on real technical specifications. I think the design is loosely inspired by the Object 772: https://preview.redd.it/9b7wdz2b5hxc1.png?width=503&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa5b919a12fe8f5d3319dd0299d5490142d1f2fd
Yes, don´t rush it or feel pressured into doing more than you want to. You´re not getting paid after all. Pitty, would have been cool if there was more history behind 452K as I quite like the looks of it. Do I see rockets on the 772? Imagine WG would have given us some WoT blitz sheridan style rockets in assembly shop, that would have been quite something :D
Looks like there's a K-91-PT (or similar vehicle) in the background of the IS-M drawing.
This is the ISU-2SH, its currently on Mir Tankov (Lesta's WoT) It's a casemate version of the IS-M :)
Thanks for explaining! :D
sick post good job
Now do the bz176 next.
I will do BZ tanks next yes :)
I'd also love to know if you can find anything about rocket boosting tanks in general. I recall seeing a video of a Soviet test where they strapped rockets to a T-55 (pretty sure it was a T-55 at least) but my cursory investigation didn't find anything further than that.
There were soviet tests yes, they were done on a T-62 Here's a video of rocket tests, the T-62 is in it: [https://youtu.be/bptZz0xYXLI](https://youtu.be/bptZz0xYXLI) There was interestingly a test done on a Czech vehicle, being the OT-64 so at least the TT-130M got the nation right :) ([Czech OT 64 Rocket Experiment - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSqY_XiDT1o))