Here’s What You Need To Remember: The KV-1’s transmission, which Kotin borrowed from a U.S.-made tractor, simply sucked. But one of the tank’s biggest problems was the fact the crew could ...

Desperate to staunch the bleeding, on June 23 the Red Army sprang its KV-1 and KV-2 tanks — which at the time packed some of the heaviest tank armor in the world — on the advancing ...

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 ...

In Fall 1941, the KV-1 carried the L-11 and F-32 (34) cannons, but these were then replaced with the more reliable ZIS-5, which was the same caliber, but had a longer barrel. On the battlefield In ...