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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.
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-1 model 1939 The KV-2 heavy artillery tank T-38 amphibious scout tank armed with 20 mm cannon One of the main competing designs of the T-35 tank was the SMK , which lowered the number of turrets from the T-35's five to two, mounting the same combination of 76.2 mm and 45 mm weapons.
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 ...
The KV-85 was a KV-1S with the new turret from the Object 237 (IS-85) still in development, mounting the 85mm D-5T gun. The tank was a result of the USSR's tank design bureau being torn in two, one half focusing on the KV-85 and its variants, and the other working on the later IS series.
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Zinovy Grigoryevich Kolobanov (Russian: Зино́вий Григо́рьевич Колоба́нов) (7 January 1911– 8 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian tank commander and veteran of World War II. He commanded a KV-1 tank and is widely considered the second top scoring tanker ace of the Soviet Union.
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.