EXHIBIT #21

JOSEF STALIN TANK GUN                                    USSR

 

The Josef Stalin was one of the heaviest gunned tanks in WW2 (biggest tank gun: Jagdtiger: 128-mm cannon). No other tank could outshoot it. This gun, retrieved from a street in Berlin in May, 1945, was still in the upside-down turret of a destroyed JS-1 tank. It was the last Soviet tank to be destroyed before Berlin fell to the Soviets (hit by a Panzerfaust, a German RPG). The improved JS-2 appeared in 1944, and later, the JS-3 made its first appearance in the Victory Parade in Berlin, 1945. Overnight, the JS-3 rendered most other tanks obsolete.

 

DATA

Shell weight: 55 lbs

Max range: 22,832 yds

Muzzle velocity: 2,800 feet per second