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75mm Armor, 1 Breakthrough: How the KV Tank Shook 1939

The KV-1 debuted with armor that German guns could not penetrate and firepower that rivaled anything in Europe. From ...
The National Interest

How One Really Big Tank Helped Save Russia from Hitler Capturing Moscow

In the first six months of Operation Barbarossa, the brutal Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Panzer tanks overran hundreds of miles of Soviet territory and reached the outskirts of Moscow before ...
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50 Tons, 1 Last Stand: How the KV Tank Became Obsolete

The KV-1’s armor was thickened again and again until mobility collapsed. New variants like the KV-1S and KV-85 tried to keep pace, but German Panthers and Tigers made them outdated. By Kursk, the KV’s ...
The National Interest

Hitler Halted When Germany Encounter These Soviet Tanks

Here’s What You Need to Know: For armament, the KV-1 had a single short-barrel seventy-six-millimeter L11 gun in the turret, as well as 7.62-millimeter machine guns in the hull and turret. There was ...