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The KV-2 heavy artillery tank's 152 mm howitzer was housed in an enormous turret. This prototype differs from the production version in several ways. It was called the Dreadnought by its crews. [23] KV-2 (204) – A heavy 52 ton assault tank with the M-10 152 mm howitzer, the KV-2 was produced at the same time as the KV-1. Due to the size of ...
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 hull 232: KV-12: Heavy tank: Experimental chemical tank 233: KV-13: Medium tank: Prototype 234: KV-234: Heavy tank: Also known as the "Super KV-2".
Kliment Voroshilov tank; ... (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ... KV-6. Add languages ...
ISBN 0-7607-1022-8. Milsom, John (1971). 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
Heavy tanks achieved their greatest, albeit limited, success when fighting lighter tanks and destroying fortifications. Heavy tanks often saw limited combat in their intended roles, [1] instead becoming mobile pillboxes or defensive positions, such as the German Tiger I and Tiger II designs, or the Russian KV and IS designs. [2]
T-34-76 (Model 1941) (26 tonnes) at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in 1987 KV-1 (45 tonnes) on display in Kirovsk. Prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, the German armed forces were not aware of two newly developed Soviet tanks, the T-34 and the KV. As a result, they were surprised when they met them in combat for the first ...
At the Battle of Leningrad on 20 August 1941, in Krasnogvardeysk (now Gatchina), Kolobanov's unit ambushed a column of German armour.The vanguard of the German 8th, 6th and 1st Panzer Divisions was approaching Krasnogvardeysk near Leningrad (now St Petersburg), and the only Soviet force available to stop it consisted of five well-hidden KV-1 tanks, dug in within a grove at the edge of a swamp.
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... KV-4; T. T-42 super-heavy tank; T-43 medium tank ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...