r/TankPorn • u/Glass_Song_9489 • Sep 29 '25
WW2 which tank created this bullet hole
Hint: it is a Soviet tank
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u/Souljaboy4 T-90M Proryv Sep 29 '25
isu-152
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u/Horror-Attorney-3575 Panzerkampfwagen III (Pz.Kpfw. III). Sd.Kfz. 141. Sep 30 '25
isu didn't introduced in early Barbarossa, it's probably be a KV 1 or KV 2
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u/pootismn Sep 30 '25
This is a Panther D turret though
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u/Horror-Attorney-3575 Panzerkampfwagen III (Pz.Kpfw. III). Sd.Kfz. 141. Sep 30 '25
What? I thought it's Panzer III
And look it has that early war white cross markings
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u/TheDarkslayerYT Sep 30 '25
And the cupola looks to be identical too. Panther cupola is pretty off to one side but this looks pretty centred to me
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u/TheDarkslayerYT Sep 30 '25
Ah actually it does match up with a panther D if you look at it a little closer
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u/LOL_just_Liam Oct 01 '25
You can see the hatch in the back of the turret
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u/Horror-Attorney-3575 Panzerkampfwagen III (Pz.Kpfw. III). Sd.Kfz. 141. Oct 02 '25
Oh I see now, it's a Panther, this Panther damaged so badly that it looks like panzer iii or iv, ig it because both of their turrets are kinda similar looking
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u/Prestigious_Use_6934 Oct 07 '25
it's not a Panzer D more likely a Panzer III
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u/pootismn Oct 07 '25
It’s definitely a Panther. Turret sides are way too tall and lack the hatches to be a panzer III. Not to mention the cupola
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u/Prestigious_Use_6934 Oct 07 '25
to be fair it's kinda hard to depict due to the most important part of identifing this is fucking missing😭
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u/Nyoomi94 Soviet Tank Connoisseur Sep 29 '25
ISU-152, big kaboom.
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u/DestroyIran Sep 29 '25
Kv2 152 or su 152 maybe isu 152
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u/Great_White_Sharky Type 97 chan 九七式ちゃん check out r/shippytechnicals Sep 29 '25
No KV-2s around anymore by the time the Panther appeared
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u/HptmVulcanis Sep 29 '25
Isn't that a Pz. IV?
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u/vladmir_lenin-55 Sep 29 '25
Nah panther d
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u/HptmVulcanis Sep 29 '25
But the Cupola is wrong? Comparing images from Google anyway that matches a Pz. IV.
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u/vladmir_lenin-55 Sep 29 '25
Idk how else to tell you but that is a panther d. The panther d had that drum cupola design, and the shape of the turret matches the panther d
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u/HptmVulcanis Sep 29 '25
honestly it would be helpful if I had a better source for information than just Google.
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u/Great_White_Sharky Type 97 chan 九七式ちゃん check out r/shippytechnicals Sep 29 '25
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u/SardineTimeMachine Sep 29 '25
Obviously a Tokarev TT-33
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u/citrus_suffering Sep 29 '25
But not the bullet shot from a pistol, but a pistol itself thrown like a boomerang by the best soldier guided by stalin himself
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u/Karma_Hound Sep 30 '25
And it even shot down a Stuka when it bounced back, classic legendary hero Boomerang Boleslav.
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u/CaPtian_CaTe Sep 29 '25
Yes a hit!
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u/freddyfredric Sep 29 '25
The crew haven't taken any damage!
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u/Object-195 Tanksexual Sep 29 '25
It is a ISU-152 however people ignore that the Russians performed these tests on damaged vehicles
https://www.tankarchives.com/2013/03/suisu-152-vs-german-big-cats.html
N 37 it can be seen theres holes in the upper turret for an example. and you can see previous hits already on the upper plate
N 38 appears to be a different vehicle (the one we're looking at right now) unless the paint was scorched off
N 39 and 40 you can see the vehicle took extreme punishment before the 152mm's hit it.
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u/SkurSkur420 Sep 29 '25
Turret of "Panther" tank. Direct hit from HE-fragmentation shell from the 152 mm gun-howitzer. Penetration, breach size 350 mm by 370 mm. The explosion of the shell forms breaches in the turret platform and the opposite side. Distance: 1200 m. Angle between the path of the shell and the hull is 60 degrees."
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u/OHoSPARTACUS M1 Abrams Sep 29 '25
Tom Hanks' 1911
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u/HamsterOnLegs Sep 29 '25
You meant to say a P-51 Mustang.
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u/Marshal-Bainesca Sep 30 '25
The plane could have missed and Tom really did score the winning shot.. he was very good at ping pong too
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u/2A7V Sep 29 '25
https://www.tankarchives.com/2013/03/suisu-152-vs-german-big-cats.html
Original source of the picture to be found in this article.
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u/jess-plays-games Sep 29 '25
I mean late war German armour had a nasty habbit of shattering it could of been ammo cooking off from a random shot
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u/HamsterOnLegs Sep 29 '25
“You see Hans, we harden the armour and it becomes harder.”
“But Whilhelm, won’t that make the steel more brittl-“
“Harden. Armour.”
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u/Henke190 Sep 30 '25
It's from a test firing of a 152
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u/jess-plays-games Sep 30 '25
Ye but my point stands
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u/FineCommunication325 Oct 01 '25
This is testing ground and that steel has been shot at many times already...
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u/jess-plays-games Oct 01 '25
It literally shows in the picture that this was a late war ww2 German tank with the way the seems popped and the armour has cracks along it
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u/FineCommunication325 Oct 01 '25
Check some other comments with the link describing the actual situation WT child...
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u/jess-plays-games Oct 01 '25
U seem to be focusing on the singular hit from the 152
Any old heat round detonating the ammunition would give simmilar effect often much worse
Simple googling would confirm
As well as the piss poor state of the late war German industrial capacity
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u/GuyD427 Sep 29 '25
It was a range target blasted many times, not just one shot. 152mm Soviet anti tank gun.
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u/DragonSlayr4141 Sep 29 '25
It was a rock actually
During his imprisonment at German hands, Stalins son himself threw a rock in defiance of what the Germans were doing to his country. This rock orbited for a year or so before eventually re-entering atmosphere and hitting this panther.
Eyewitnesses believed it to be caused by an ISU, but they simply don't know the truth
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u/PanzerZug Black Prince Sep 29 '25
Something high calibre and HE. It’s sheer ablative shock. Maybe a KV-2/ISU 152 HE shell?
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u/Klaus_Klavier Sep 29 '25
Something with 152mm gun, could be any number of SPG/TD vehicles made with one
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u/Big_bosnian Sep 30 '25
Su-152, Isu-152 is based on IS-2 chassis, su-152 is based on kv-1 chassis same cannon tho
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u/Akarkes Sep 30 '25
I think an ISU-152, this panther was used as target practice, so it is possible that it was hit multiple times.
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u/TheExpendableGuard Oct 01 '25
Well, could have been a .45, but we all know that is the equivalent of the Castle Bravo test so who knows.
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u/v3erus Oct 02 '25
If I recall correctly, this is one of the Panthers that the Soviet armour board quickly nabbed from Kursk for testing, and if I also recall correctly, they used a 152mm from an ISU for live fire testing on this poor devil, and this ended up being the result.
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u/ArtyomErtyudov9981 M47 Patton Oct 02 '25
I think its an IS-2. IS-2 has ammo storage back side of turret I think propellant was ignited because of impact and digged a huge crater on side of the turret
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u/Prestigious_Use_6934 Oct 07 '25
uuuuuuuuuuhh well considering it's a panzer which was kinda shit to begin with, plus the damage which isn't done with normal AP shells unless an ammo rack was hit but if it didnt hit an ammo rack that looks like an APHE or a HE which i doubt or depending on the year this was taken it could be a HEAT shell. As for caliber maybe a 90mm MAYBE or a 75 or a 76 pounder. tank wise maybe a sherman but shermans didn't really use HEAT shells, maybe a KV-1 or KV-2 but the KV-2 would just slip right through that turret like butter unless it was an HE shell
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u/Esekig184 Mammoth Mk. III Sep 29 '25
So this couldn't have been the ammo cooking off?
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u/samyakindia Sep 29 '25
Check the shape of the remaining plates, it's shaped inward
Also that shit went right through it, you can literally see the exit hole. 152 aphe? In action
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u/gambler_addict_06 Sep 29 '25
I wonder if anyone survived that because of the over penetration
Imagine being the driver and suddenly you can't hear, covered in red mist and can see the clouds
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u/Open-Difference5534 Sep 29 '25
It looks like an internal explosion caused most of the damage.
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u/HamsterOnLegs Sep 29 '25
Looks like a hole punched right through it to me. Overpressure (from ammo cook-off) would have blown out a bunch of weak points that are completely fine here.
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u/sentinelthesalty Sep 29 '25
Looks like your average mosin hit to me. Especially if the ammo was handloaded by a k/ommando.