IS-2, IS-3, ISU-122 and ISU-152, and T-10, it produced 520 hp. V-2-450AV-S3: V-2 modified for oil drilling equipment, it produced 450 hp. History of development and production The V-2 started development in 1931 until 1939 by design team of the diesel department of the Kharkiv Locomotive Works, first under the leadership of Konstantin Chelpan, who was arrested in 1938. Work was passed down to his deputy for project work, Yakov Efimovich Vikhman, and Ivan Yakovlevich Trashutin, his deputy for experimental and production work, who completed development of the engine in 1939. Near the end of the 20th century, the V-2 was fitted with more modern modifications by the chief designer of the head design bureau for the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, Vladimir Ivanovich Butov. Serial production for the V-2 begun on September 1st, 1939. The Red Army adopted the V-2 engine in the same year in three modifications: the V-2 (500hp), the V-2K (600hp) for the KV line of tanks and the V-2V (375hp). See also Maybach HL230, equivalent contemporary German tank engine Rolls-Royce Meteor, equivalent contemporary British tank engine References Notes Sources Diesel engines by model World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the Soviet Union Tank engines Malyshev Factory products