Soviet World War 2 Tanks That Need Adding to War Thunder

In this 5th episode of my series looking at World War 2 Tanks That Need Adding to War Thunder, we take a look at Soviet tanks of the World War 2 period!

So join me as we take a look at the a tank that was intended to replace the T-34, various attempts to upgun existing tanks, a number of T-34 variants that still need to be added, a large number of heavy tanks and some unique Soviet flamethrower tanks!

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War Thunder for ingame stats

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Tanks featured in this episode ⬇️
T-40
T-30
T-60
T-37
T-38
Khtz-16
NI-Tank
BT-7E/BT-7M
T-28 fitted with 76.2mm F-32 gun
T-28 fitted with 85mm F-30 gun
T-34/76 Model 1940
T-34/76 Model 1941
T-34/76 Model 1942
T-34/76 Model 1943
T-34M
T-43
T-34/76 fitted with S-53 85mm gun
T-34-85 (D-5T)
T-34-85 Model 1944
T-34-85 Model 1945
T-34-85 Model 1946
T-34-85 fitted with STP-S-53 “Taran” 1 plane gun stabiliser
T-44
T-54
KV-1 Model 1939
KV-1 Model 1940
KV-1 Model 1941
KV-1E
KV-1 Model 1942
KV-1S
KV-10/KV-1K
T-150/KV-150
Object 221
Object 222
Object 223/KV-3
KV-7 (U-14)/KV-7-2
KV-9
KV-13
Object 238
KV-1S fitted with 85mm S-28 gun
KV-100
Object 244/IS-3
Object 701
Object 253/IS-6 with electrical transmission
OT-34
OT-34-85
KV-8
KV-8S

Soviet Light Tanks: 00:00
Soviet Medium Tanks: 08:16
Soviet Heavy Tanks: 24:02
Soviet Flamethrower Tanks: 56:06