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  Second World War Tank Museum - Soviet Heavy Tank KV
During the Soviet-Finnish conflict, 2 KV tanks went to front straightly from the factories.
The last mass modification of KV tank was the KV-85 model, produced during the autumn of 1943.
Soviet authors say that it always had the iniciative during the tank battles and that it was the mightiest tank of the world up to the end of 1942.
www.sweb.cz /Tankove_Muzeum/museum/kv.html   (658 words)

  
 Nival Interactive | Blitzkrieg | Missions | 2. War in Finland | KV 1 Tank (Russia)
Multiple turret tank designs clearly needed to be abandoned because they turned out to be too heavy to remain effective.
Most of the KV's lost were due to crew's lack of experience or insufficient supplies, but in capable hands even a single such tank could stop a whole enemy division or take out over 30 enemy tanks in the course of combat.
During the war, the KV's armour was reduced in order to decrease the weight and improve reliability, but the Germans were also improving their anti tank weaponry and the KV 1 lost it's main advantage - invincibility, and was replaced by the IS tank.
www.nival.com /blitzkrieg/chapters/2/528   (342 words)

  
 KV-2 gallery
The stuck in the swamp and blown by the crew KV-2 tank (with MT-1 artillery mount) from the 2nd Tank Division of the 3rd Mechanised Corps.
The experimental version of KV tank (U-0) equipped with the 1st MT-1 artillery mount (152mm howitzer).
KV U-7 tank with the first version of the "reduced" turret equipped with the 152mm howitzer before tests.
rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com /galleries/KV_2.htm   (153 words)

  
 Battlefront.com Discussion Forums: KV-1 tank commander
In tank combat, the KV commander was overwhelmed with duties, being forced to share his time between handling his vehicle with other tanks in the platoon as well as loading the gun.
Not only was some 75% of their tanks in such a bad state that they couldn't fight, but the actual tanks in inventory had little to do with the combat needs of the army.
Of the tanks that were both on the TOE and in inventory almost half were T-26 destined for, or assigned to, infantry support and almost all the rest were BT's.
www.battlefront.com /discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=31;t=009226;p=1   (3571 words)

  
 KV-2 Tank
tank was tested in Winter War, it was noticed that the gun in
Immediately after this was noticed, the designers started to build a tank, that could destroy these kind of bunkers.
In the first battle, one of the KV-2 tanks, received 48 hits to it's turret, but none of them penetrated the armor.
www.silentwall.com /KV-2.html   (199 words)

  
 3D max KV Klim Voroshilov
When the Soviets entered the Winter War, the SMK, KV and a third design, the T-100, were sent to be tested in combat conditions.
The KV-2 Heavy Artillery Tank's 152-mm howitzer was housed in an enormous turret.
So effective was its armour that the Germans were incapable of destroying it with their tanks or anti-tank weapons and had to rely on air support and anti-aircraft artillery (flak) to knock them out.
www.turbosquid.com /FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/316382   (523 words)

  
  Eciclopedeye :: encyclopedia : Tank   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Les prumîs tanks ont siervou ås batreyes del Måne, tins del guere di 1914-1918.
Les Almands, dispu 1916, avént basti leus tanks, les Panzer-1, Panzer-2, Panzer-3, Panzer-4, todi pus pouxhants.
Li tank almand k' a-st arivé a Cele-dilé-Dinant, li pus lon k' les Almands ont-st avnou a l' Ofinsive da Von Rundstedt, c' esteut on Tigue Rweyå.
eciclopedeye.com /Tank   (897 words)

  
 Russia's KV Heavy Tanks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mk I, Matilda I (A11), Mk II, Matilda (A12) Mk III, Valentine Mk IV, Churchill (A22) Valiant Infantry Tank (A38)
In 1938 the SMK (Sergius Mironovitch Kirov) and the T-100 were designed by S.J. (Z.?) Kotin (chief engineer of the Kirov-Zavod tank factory in Leningrad) to replace the T-35.
At Stalin's suggestion Kotin modified the T-100 by removing the small front turret which had a 45 mm gun and was able to design a more compact vehicle and increase the armor based on the weight savings.
www.wwiivehicles.com /ussr/tanks_heavy/kv1.html   (1224 words)

  
 Sendit.com - The War File: Killer Tanks - The KV Tank (DVD) - Buy DVDs, Games & Electronics - FREE UK & Ireland ...
Part of the documentary series examining the capabilities of the different types of tanks used by the Allied and German armies in the Second World War.
This volume looks at the Soviet KV tank, the most heavily armoured tank in the world during the early part of the war.
Almost impervious to conventional anti-tank fire, the KV, although built in relatively few numbers, was crucial in blunting the German advance towards Moscow in late 1941.
www.sendit.com /video/item/7000000104806   (205 words)

  
 Gauntlet Publications
This book is dedicated to the history of development of medium multi-turret tanks of the Red Army from 1930 to 1941.
For the first time, production differences in the tanks built in different years are listed, as are data on their participation in the Soviet-Finnish war and WWII.
This issue offers a detailed account of the Soviet heavy tank designs, their drawings and data on their tactical use, as well as 105 photographs and eight color drawings in 80+ pages under a soft cover.
www.gauntletinternational.com /RuPubsC.htm   (4792 words)

  
 Plastic model kits of military vehicles
They emulate real rubber tyres and should be used instead of the hard plastic tires from kits (SA-10 'Grumble' ADS).
They should be applied to models of different manufacturers.
Pz.Kpfw.753(r) mit 7,5KwK 40 and Pz.Kpfw I/IA 753 (r) Heavy tanks
pstmodel.com   (448 words)

  
 Tamiya 1/35 KV-1B Heavy Tank pictures from extreme sports photos on webshots
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 All Books on www.Aviapress.com. Model kits, Military Books and Magazines - the choice of the whole internet.
EXP-013 Armour Protection of the KV and IS Soviet WW2 Heavy Tanks
FRI-011 Tanks of the Winter war 1939 - 1940
OTH-150 Triumph and Tragedy of KV Heavy Tanks
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