From its origins in the late 1930s, the KV series redefined heavy tank warfare, with the KV-1 proving virtually impervious to ...

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 ...

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 ...