IS-7

Modules

Tier	Gun	Penetration (mm)	Damage (HP)	Rate of fire (rounds/minute)	Dispersion (m/100m)	Aiming time (s)		Weight (kg)	Price ()
X	130 mm S-70	250/303/68	490/490/640	4.38	0.4	2.9		2980	297000

Tier	Engine	Engine Power (hp)	Chance of Fire on Impact (%)		Weight (kg)	Price ()
X	M-50TI	1200	15		700	132000

Tier	Suspension	Load Limit (т)	Traverse Speed (gr/sec)	Rmin		Weight (kg)	Price ()
X	IS-7	70.95	28	B/2		11000	82500

Tier	Radio	Signal Range (m)		Weight (kg)	Price ()
X	10RK-26	720		160	51600

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Compatible Consumables

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Amazingly thick and angled frontal hull armor, very resilient when its lfp its covered.
• Side armor is very angled and spaced; difficult for HEAT and HE shells to penetrate. Hilarious sidescrap capabilities.
• One of the best (if not the best), turrets in the game. Nigh invincible in hull down positions.
• Hard hitting main gun with good alpha damage.
• Very high top speed in flat surfaces and rolling down hills. Excellent p/w ratio.

Cons:

• Very low DPM, one of the worst at tier X.
• Low penetration for a tier X heavy tank, horrible even when using premium APCR ammunition.
• Extraordinarily high terrain resistance making the top speed not easy to achieve.
• Damage taken from front lower hull will certainly kill the driver, further worsening its already bad terrain resistance.
• Extremely prone to being ammo racked, can be done from the front and side hull.

Performance

IS-7 is a fast heavy tank that delivers mediocre damage while being hard to kill due to its heavily sloped front armor. The IS-7 has some of the best angled frontal armor in the game, however this is somewhat nullified at close range by the equally thick but much less angled lower plate. All these strengths come with a weakness; the IS-7's main gun, while having the same listed accuracy as the E-100's 15cm, in practice seems to be worse at actually hitting the target, let alone hitting a weakspot, thus requiring the player to get fairly close to their target in order to lessen the impact of its poor dispersion values. This in turn makes you a much easier target to hit as well, with a lot of the frontal armor being penetrable by the high penetration premium ammunition found on a lot of tier IX and X tanks from the range the IS-7 prefers to play in. The IS-7 uses the 130 mm S-70, which has better alpha damage than the 122mm M62-T2 mounted on IS-4, but worse stats elsewhere. The main difference between the IS-7 and the IS-4 is that the IS-7 is much faster, with a top speed of 60 km/h (though this is difficult to reach under normal driving conditions), as well as having good turret traverse. A more modern comparison would be with the Object 277, which completely outclasses the IS-7 in terms of mobility, has a better gun complimented nicely by 340mm penetration HEAT rounds, but loses out on hull armor whilst still having extremely strong turret armor (better than the 113 and WZ-111 5A). This makes the Object 277 picked far more frequently in competitive modes because of the high penetration and superior speed.

However, these sloping plates also add a disadvantage: You cannot angle the frontal armor of IS-7 as you expose the well-sloped-but-weak armor plate to the enemy, the effective armor when fighting angled drops a fair amount, allowing tier 8, 9, and 10 guns to punch through if they strike at a shallow enough angle to the plate. This in turn makes your lower plate incredibly easy to penetrate as it is just as thin as the upper plate but with far worse sloping. When fighting one at an angle, prefer its flatter front armor sections than is angled side armor, or shoot the sprocket, dealing damage and throwing off the track. If fighting in an urban environment with many street corners that force you to turn to shoot you opponent, it's advised that you bait them into shooting your thick and spaced side armor by sidescraping, then returning fire as they reload. Alternatively, if your weak lower hull is exposed to enemy fire, try to wiggle or shake it so that it's harder to penetrate. This can even sometime bounces tier X TD shots. The IS-7 is frequently viewed as one of the easiest tier X tanks in the game to play (particularly in random battles), because of the decent mobility, high alpha damage and armor that always has weak points and strong points making it so that it is difficult to play the tank wrong, and it being very forgiving to mistakes the average player is likely to make. However these more generic traits that the IS-7 has (that being that it isn't excellent at any one thing) means that in competitive game modes the IS-7 is rarely seen, because tanks that are better at one job are frequently used in place (e.g. the Super Conqueror might be used if good turret armor is required, because of the better gun it has, or the T110E4 might be used if high alpha damage with armor that can bounce some shots is required, as in these game modes the IS-7's hull armor is frequently unable to hold up against the high penetration premium ammunition the majority of competitive tanks have. Also, if a tank is required in order to be flexible and possibly do one of several jobs, the 113, Object 277, and WZ-111 5A are all picked in favor of the IS-7 because of their power level. That being said, the IS-7 is picked when a fast tank with excellent turret armor is needed, and the position it will be using is unable to hide the weaker upper plate of the Object 277, making the IS-7 able to tank a huge amount of damage.

All-in-all, the IS-7 is a relatively strong tier X heavy tank that is forgiving to play in random battles making it an excellent choice for a first tier X for newer players (on top of the fact that the tanks leading up to it are also all forgiving to play and powerful in their own tiers), but more capable players may find the IS-7 quite boring to play because of this 'low skill floor, low skill ceiling' that the tank has, and so may well get more consistently excellent games by driving one of the Chinese heavy tanks or the Object 277.

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