Named after Klimenti Voroshilov, the People's Commissar for Defence, the KVs proved a bad shock for German tank crews through the early days of Operation Barbarossa. even if sluggish, they have been super seriously armoured. This quantity examines the transition from multi-turreted tanks to heavy single-turret automobiles, inclusive of the KV-1 and a couple of, and the elevated favour given to the heavy single-turret after the Germans started to improve ammunition in a position to penetrating even the thickest armour, when detailing the layout, improvement and operational historical past of the Soviet Union's colossal KV sequence of tanks.
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