Soviet JS-2M Late Version

Some great photos !!! Wow… Thanks so much for those.
And the information too.

That’s great. Thanks !!!

Hello fromSalekhard, everything you wrote is correct. This tank unit was stationed in the GDR in the state of Thuringia on the border with the former Federal Republic of Germany. The stationing location was Bad Langensalza, near Eisenach. This unit was equipped with JS-2M and JS-3M tanks, as can be seen in your second picture. But there were also JSU-152s. I agree with you about the boxes. Here are some more pictures of this unit.

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Good stuff! Modellers seem relatively uninterested in 50s and 60s soldiering.

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Hello BootsDMS, I have thought long and hard about replying to your post. In my opinion, the topics and photos shown here are very interesting. There is no interest from the model builders, not to mention their knowledge of the original vehicles. So I can only share your opinion. In future, I will only show finished models, without construction work and construction plans. For anything else here, in this forum, the effort is too great for the benefit. I will implement this decision with the SPK-5 model. It’s good that you wrote this post. I hope you have a nice evening.[quote=“BootsDMS, post:43, topic:44809, full:true”]
Good stuff! Modellers seem relatively uninterested in 50s and 60s soldiering.
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Please, please do not misconstrue my comments as indicating that construction-process pictures are not of any worth - I assure you they are - not least as an inspiration to modellers.

My comments really apply to the fact - as I see it - that one doesn’t see models from the not uninteresting decades spanning the late 40s, 50s and 60s. Vehicles from this time, especially NATO/Warsaw Pact usage, are very interesting - to at least you and me it would appear!

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@lkwman Joachim,

There’s many of us that enjoy the JS-2 pictures! I’m not inclined to say much because I don’t know much about the JS-2 family. I’m grateful to see your high quality pictures because eventually I want to build a 1/35 Tamiya JS-2.

I believe @BootsDMS intended to communicate, the lack of discussion maybe because a fair part of the audience doesn’t know enough to engage in deep discussion on the JS2 topic or ~1948 to ~1968 soldiering.

Please note that for a small forum, your pictures got a lot of likes :+1:. This indicates interest in what you have to share.

So in closing thank you for sharing the pictures and I hope you choose to share additional information and pictures.

Best regards,
Wade

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I must also say that I have enjoyed this thread and the photos, especially.

Perhaps it is a language misinterpretation, but I read the BootsDMS post as:

It is unfortunate that modelers seem to be uninterested 50s and 60s soldiering, because I want to see more posts on these subjects.

That is certainly how I feel.

KL

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I enjoy the later JSs and seeing these photos

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I agree with the others- more 50-60s subjects would be most welcome!

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Just keep posting your photos, they are very helpful , at least to me.
I have a maybe 40 to 60 kits (maybe more…) covering these 1950-1960.1970’s Cold War era so I’ll be posting them as I build them… feel free to join in,

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Nice start.

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Hello Nito74, there were some differences of opinion here, which shouldn’t really affect the matter. You may have continued building the JS-2M model. So here are some more pictures today so that you can build the model as realistically as possible. I would be happy if, with your permission, I could show the pictures of your model to the soldiers of the time on the Internet. All pictures are from 1977.

Greetings, Joachim

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Still using these in 77!

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That’s what caught my eye! I’m surprised as the T-10M soldiered on until (roughly) 1971, yet this beast served on until a fair bit later.

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Yes Dan, it’s almost unbelievable, but it’s hard to say whether 1977 was the end of the JS-2M. As far as I understand, it was converted to T-62. T-10 tanks were not used. These tanks were definitely used in my region until 1975. The most important use for these tanks came in August 1968, when the Czechoslovak Republic was invaded. But we’ll come back to the T-10M topic later. The 122mm cannon was important for the JS-2M tank, but I’ve already written about that. That’s why this tank was used for so long. It was intended for suppression, not for attack.

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@lkwman Joachim, do you know how accurate a JS-2 driver could be with the fixed bow machine gun? I’ve heard hitting a barrel at ~50 meter was pretty do able.

Thanks

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Thanks for the photos, these are great!

It looks like only the “flat” glacis types were used by this time.

Was it common for the tanks to have numbers on the turret?

What was the cord or cable shown in yellow?

KL

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This is a tube for the electrical wire between the headlights.



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That’s what I thought it might be, but it seemed very exposed. Does the power come from inside the tank to the light on the driver’s left, then through this to the light on the driver’s right?

KL

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Well, I agree it’s not very visible. I selected the photos to show the design, not the purpose. Maybe it will be clearer here.


The most interesting thing is that I didn’t find any clear and completely unambiguous photos.
The wire from inside the tank to the headlight goes only in one place - to the left headlight. You must agree that every extra hole in the frontal armor of the tank is not good. Purely from a design and Soviet point of view, no one would have done it differently. I understand this, because I am a Soviet mechanic-designer.

That’s how it’s drawn in this diagram from the “Manual for the material part and operation of the IS-2M tank.” I marked the headlights with arrows.

Well, I plan to visit several of these tanks over the summer - I’ll take a closer look there.

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