Russian Land Battleships?

I believe everybody eventually learned that a fast chassis, with a decent gun, and lots of them....defeat the Monster tank every time.
Add air power and mobility problems, and you can only wonder why the Dinosaurs every occupied R&D's mindset.
I realize the long thing is a hoax ! One look and you see it wouldn't work....for long !

 

I do believe this is true, however I think it was a standard KV 1 which did hold up the Germans for a day. The German tanks were unable to pierce the armour and in the end they had to bring up an 88mm FlaK gun to knock it out and still it took three hits.

 

Theres even pics of that one! Let me see if i can dig them up.

Lol, i found two stories telling 'bout KV-series heroic feats.

Let me post the stories for you.
On 23-24 June 1941 a single KV-2 of 2nd tank division conducted an armored road block in southern Lithuania (near Rassaynjay town), holding up the German advance. The Germans found themself in a trouble when they lost whole supply truck collumn. Numerious attacks including a battery of 50mm anti-tank guns (which were destroyed at 500m distance), Flak 88 (the Soviets allowed to mount this gun at 700m distance and then killed it) and an engineer unit attack all failed to silence the Russian tank. Artillery fire of 105mm howitzers achieved a hit to the track and the KV was partially immobilised. This heavy tank at the only road and surrounding swamps made German troops supply (with ammo, fuel and food) and wounded soldiers evacuation impossible. The Germans were forced to use such trick: 50(!) tanks immitated an attack, so it became possible to set another 88mm flak, which managed to eliminate the tank after two days it held up the advance of the entire 6th Panzer Division.
The Stukas were not used beacause a commander not allowed an operation "against one tank".
By the Germans' accounts, the crew could have escaped easily several times before the final attack, but the heroes always chooses own fate.


And this is of the KV1.
"One of the KV's managed to reach the only supply route of the German task force located in the northern bridgehead, and blocked it for several days. The first unsuspecting trucks to arrive with supplies were immediately shot afire by the tank. There were practically no means of eliminating the monster. It was impossible to bypass it because of the swampy surrounding terrain. Neither supplies nor ammunition could be brought up. The severely wounded could not be moved to the hospital for the necessary operations, so they died. The attempt to put the tank out of actions with the 50 mm antitank gun battery, which had just been introduced at the time, at a range of 500 yards ended with heavy losses to crews and equipment of the battery. The tank remained undamaged in spite of the fact that, as was later determined, it got 14 direct hits. These merely produced blue spots on its armor.

When a camouflaged 88 was brought up, the tank calmly permitted it to put into position at a distance of 700 yards, and then smashed it and its crew before it was even ready to fire.

The attempt of engineers to blow it up at night likewise proved abortive. To be sure, the engineers managed to get to the tank after midnight, and laid the prescribed demolition charge under the caterpillar tracks. The charge went off according to plan, but was insufficient for the oversized tracks. Pieces were broken off the tracks, but the tank remained mobile and continued to molest the rear of the front and to block all supplies. At first it received supplies at night from the scattered Russians groups and civilians, but the Germans later prevented this procedure by blocking off the surrounding area. However, even this isolation did not induce it to give up its favorable position.

It finally became the victim of a German ruse. Fifty tanks were ordered to feign an attack from three sides and to fire on it so as to draw all of its attention in those directions. Under the protection of this feint it was possible to set up and camouflage another 88 mm Flak to the rear of the tank, so that this time it actually was able to fire. Of the 12 direct hits scored by this medium gun, 3 pierced the tank and destroyed it



They both end similary, a coincidence, or other one of the stories is false?