Driving Over Anti Tank Guns: The Remarkable Russian KV Tanks

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The KV-1 and KV-2 are recognised as being amongst the most heavily armoured tanks deployed during WW2. At least initially largely impervious to anything less than a direct, point-blank hit from a dedicated anti-tank weapon, the KV series was so formidable that the first time the Wehrmacht encountered them, Soviet soldiers destroyed dozens of anti-tank guns by simply driving towards them in a straight line and running them over.

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Sources:

http://www.allworldwars.com/Peculiarities-of-Russian-Warfare-by-Erhard-Raus.html
http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=313
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RLjQDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=battle+of+Raseiniai+kv&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS1vjK7LDSAhUqIcAKHVQBA9QQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=battle%20of%20Raseiniai%20kv&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=umFtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA41&dq=battle+of+Raseiniai+kv&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS1vjK7LDSAhUqIcAKHVQBA9QQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=battle%20of%20Raseiniai%20kv&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KTq2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA462&dq=battle+of+Raseiniai+kv&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS1vjK7LDSAhUqIcAKHVQBA9QQ6AEIMTAE#v=onepage&q=battle%20of%20Raseiniai%20kv&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KV-1S_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_Museum_5-jun-2014_Front.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov_tank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_encounter_of_Soviet_T-34_and_KV_tanks
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_KV-2.php
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_KV-1.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov

Image Credit:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kv1_m39.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klim_voroshilov.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T-35_model_1935.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Destroyed_KV1_in_Aunus.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcia_nel_fango.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9A%D0%B2-2_1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KV-1_Kirovsk.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raseiniai#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-209-0091-11,_Russland-Nord,_russischer_Panzer_KW-2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_169-0441,_Russland,_bei_Stalingrad,_Panzer_KW-1.jpg
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/8,8-cm-FlaK_18/36/37#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-443-1574-26,_Nordafrika,_Flakgesch%C3%BCtz.jpg
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KW-1#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-216-0412-07,_Russland,_brennender_russischer_Panzer_KW_1.jpg

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