The IS-II tank was one of the most powerful tanks to emerge in numbers* towards the end of the Second World War.
The low-slung IS-II, being a development of the earlier IS-I, was armed with a 122mm gun and between 120-160mm of frontal armour at the hull and 100mm at the turret.
The Germans first saw the IS-II in February 1944 and proved to be a match for the German Tigers and Panthers tanks.
The more IS-III, yet, a later development, came out towards March to April 1945 and shocked the Western Allied observers with its combination of firepower, armour and mobility.
*3854 produced
Imperial War Museum, Duxford: July 2006
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