If you use the KV-2 you smell like beans.
knollkantar: True, but still they were slow, mechanically unreliable and underpowered. I think exceeded just doesn't tell the full story. Also a lot of it was due to the environment, russian winter, germans using gasoline instead of diesel, etc
FoxGames: IS-122 would be the IS-2.
Later in the war, when the Blitzkrieg doctrine failed and they stopped caring about the weight of their vehicles, that's when things evened out by making heavier tanks with better guns
The reason they "exceeded" was because of armor differences. German guns were small and their armor was light. Even their heaviest tanks, the Panzer 4, was a glorified light-tank classified as a medium tank
AMX ELK bis - AMX(B-C 25 t AP/ 13 90/ 30)
MT-25, LTG, LTTB T-54 T-100LT
maybe IS-1 - IS-8 (+ IS-122)
Great tanks! Stay going on :+1: