IS-3 HEAVY TANK
“THE IS-3, A CONTEMPORARY OF THE BRITISH CENTURION AND THE AMERICAN PERSHING, WAS A FORMIDABLE POTENTIAL BATTLEFIELD OPPONENT”
During a World War II victory parade through the streets of Berlin on 7 September, 1945, British and American observers were astonished with the appearance of 52 brand-new, gleaming IS-3 heavy tanks of the Soviet Red Army’s 71st Guards Heavy Tank Regiment. The latest in Soviet armoured technology had been grandly revealed to the West. The successor
