The KV (Kliment Voroshilov) Heavy Tank

The KV series of tanks were a result of extensive design competitions in the mid to late 1930's. The T-35 with 2 Turrets was finally revised to a Tank with a single Turret and thicker Armour and so was born the KV-1. Kliment Voroshilov was then the Soviet Defense Minister & Commissar so his name was used for the early model KV's. There were about 500 KV's in service when the Germans invaded in June 1941 along with about 1000 T-34's which were far superior to anything the Germans had at the time.







Left to Right. KV-1 of 1940. KV-1E of 1941 & KV-1 of 1942.

 

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Nice find mate:thumb:

Didn't the Russians produce another heavy tank and named it J S mk1 + 2. The J S after Joseph Stalin? I think it was used in the final part of WW2 in Berlin.

 

Hi Jamie, Spit's away just now but let me help here, he has posted on this tank you mention:
http://www.war44.com/forum/showthread.php?t=450&highlight=ioseph+stalin

 

This is the tank that Germany captured and did some modeling for their tiger tank later in the war. Thou it could be a later version i think of?