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Cross-country: 180 km (110 mi) [6] Maximum speed. 40 km/h (25 mph) The Kliment Voroshilov ( KV; Russian: Климент Ворошилов, КВ) tanks are a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the Soviet defence commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov who operated with the Red Army during World War II. The KV tanks were known for ...
Maximum speed. 37 km/h (23 mph) The IS-2 ( Russian: ИС-2, sometimes romanized as JS-2[ note 1]) is a Soviet heavy tank, the second of the IS tank series named after the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. It was developed and saw combat during World War II and saw service in other Soviet allied countries after the war.
IS tank family. Turret side: 90 mm at 20° angle. The IS tanks ( Russian: ИС) were a series of heavy tanks developed as a successor to the KV-series by the Soviet Union during World War II. The IS acronym is the anglicized initialism of Joseph Stalin ( Ио́сиф Ста́лин, Iosif Stalin ).
By 22 June 1941, the Red Army deployed almost 1,000 T-34 and over 500 KV tanks, [1] concentrated in five [2] of their twenty-nine mechanized corps. By the end of December 1941, they had lost 2,300 T-34 and over 900 KV tanks, accounting for 15% of the 20,500 tanks lost that year.
Another view of the engine Close up view on cylinder. The Kharkiv model V-2 (Russian: В-2) was a Soviet diesel tank V-12 engine, the V angle at 60°, with dual overhead camshafts per bank, four valves per cylinder opened by bucket-style followers and direct fuel injection, features found on modern high-performance diesel engines.
Flame tank. A marine M67 flame thrower tank in Vietnam, 1968. An M1919 Browning machine gun is mounted to the right. A flame tank is a type of tank equipped with a flamethrower, most commonly used to supplement combined arms attacks against fortifications, confined spaces, or other obstacles. The type only reached significant use in the Second ...
Acceleration from 0–32 km/h (0–20 mph) in 7.47 seconds (MT883 Ka-501) or 8.77 seconds (DV27K) K2 Black Panther ( Korean : K-2 흑표; Hanja : K-2 黑豹; RR : K-2 Heukpyo) is a South Korean main battle tank, designed by the Agency for Defense Development and manufactured by Hyundai Rotem.
A single KV-1 or KV-2 tank (accounts vary) advanced far behind the German lines after attacking a column of German supply trucks. The tank stopped on a road across soft ground and was engaged by four 50 mm anti-tank guns of the 6th Panzer Division's anti-tank battalion. The tank was hit several times but fired back and destroyed all four enemy ...