There was the Klimenti Voroshilov KV-2 heavy tank, which was first “blooded ... Hitler’s ill-advised invasion of the Soviet Union. Indeed, during one engagement early on in the Barbarossa ...

By 1942, mechanical issues of the KV-1 tank had come to light ... By supplying the Eastern Bloc with the formidable IS-2, the Soviet Union was able to establish and maintain dominance in ...

But to understand the impetus behind the V-2, we need to understand a little bit about what life was like for a tank engineer in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Of course, by 1931, a walrus-faced ...

Another Soviet Union creation, the KV-1 ... Officer 2 Stephen L. "Cookie" Sewell wrote in Armor magazine in 2002, a cornerstone of the armored strategy was "very heavy tanks used for breaking ...

Mamin tries to rescue his Soviet heavy tank KV-2, which has fallen into a river. He gathers a motley crew of soldiers and civilians and readies the tank for battle.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the Soviet Union’s decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass protests during ...