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KV-85 (Object 239) – A KV-1S with the 85 mm D-5T cannon in a new turret, with the ball mounted hull machine gun repositioned to the right of driver (now fixed mount) and the hole welded shut; 148 of these tanks were produced in the second half of 1943 until the spring of 1944 as a stopgap until the IS tank series entered production.
While most of the Soviet Union's armoured forces were composed of such tanks, the T-34 and the KV designs, which were previously unknown, took the Germans by surprise. [4] Both types were encountered on the second day of the invasion – 23 June 1941. [5] Half a dozen anti-tank guns fire shells at him [a T-34], which sound like a drumroll.
Russian Tanks, 1900–1970: The Complete Illustrated History of Soviet Armoured Theory and Design, Harrisburg Penn.: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-1493-4. Zaloga, Steven J., James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8
KV-5: Heavy tank: Cancelled 226: KV-6: Heavy tank: 1941: Flamethrower tank, single prototype 227: KV-7: Self propelled gun: 1941: Single prototype 228: KV-8: Heavy tank: Flamethrower tank 229: KV-9: Heavy tank: 1941: Prototype 230: KV-10: Heavy tank: 1942: Single prototype. Also known as KV-1K. A KV-1S with 4 rocket launchers on the back of the ...
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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). The heavy tanks were designed as a response to the capture of a German Tiger I in 1943. [6]
The KV-1S was a version of the KV-1 with lighter armour (making it faster) and a new turret (still with a 76 mm gun). KV-85 was a KV-1S fitted with an 85 mm gun in the same turret as the IS-1. After Voroshilov lost political favour, the new KV-13 model with the KV-85's turret and gun was renamed IS-1 after Joseph Stalin. It was soon upgraded to ...
T-42 (Tank Grote or TG-V): 100 tons with 107mm main gun and four sub-turrets. Models and drawings were produced, but no prototypes were made. [6] KV-4: 1941 project. A set of design requirements produced multiple proposals for a tank carrying a 107 mm main gun and a 45 mm or 76 mm secondary.