Soviet engineers pushed armor and weight to extremes. Early variants could shrug off every German gun, but their mobility and ...

During the nearly forty-eight-hour standoff, the KV-2 had survived eight 50mm direct hits. When most military history buffs think of Soviet tanks during World War II, chances are they think of the ...

With armor that made German guns useless, the KV-1 and KV-2 were unstoppable in 1941. But weight, complexity, and changing tactics left them behind. This is the full rise and fall of the Soviet KV ...