In this second part of the story of the Soviet KV battle tank, we look at how over its long years of service, the KV went from star player to standard asset before transitioning to the somewhat ...

Key point: Despite their superior armor, the KV tanks simply sacrificed too much mobility, reliability and cost-efficiency to equal the success of the T-34. In the first six months of Operation ...

Finally recognizing these crushing defects, Soviet factories followed up with the lighter KV-1S, which selectively trimmed armor down to seventy-five millimeters, while fixing the transmission and ...

Despite the KV-1 heavy tank being able to withstand most German weaponry, poor technical characteristics was it’s Achilles heel during WWII. After the launch of ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the Germans ...