Know Your Steel: KV-1

Mantelman, on 06 November 2013 - 06:02 PM, said: But in the inital part of Barbarossa the german armored colums cut fast and deep, that was only possible because they let theire supporting units far behind, so the mighty 8.8cm gun coulnd´t support the armored troops in AT-roles.
The Panzerkampfwagen 35 and 38(t), Pzkw III (with 3,7cm and short 5cm), IV (only with short 7,5cm) and the StugIII (7,5cm) couldn´t penetrate a KV-1. The 5cm Pak38 were rare at this time and the 7,5cm Pak40 appeared at the end of 1941.

And the MOST AA-Units stood in the Reich and didn´t have AP-Ammo.