Know Your Steel: KV-2
Дата: 10.12.2013 18:38:45
Schmeksiman, on 10 December 2013 - 05:23 PM, said: It's finally here and it's the KV-2!.
A fascinating tank with mixed results on the battlefield, due to extreme weight it was very prone to suspension failure. I've (probably) read somewhere that a lot of them simply broke down during the Winter War, mostly due to the conditions. There are a couple of pictures from German army of captured KV-2's being tested and later used in combat, I'll have to search my bookshelf to find them and if I do I'll post them here.
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And one thing that I never fully understood (neither do the authors of those books mentioned above), why to heck did they mount a machine gun on the back of the turret? Is there a logical explanation or is it one of the famous "soviet extra equipment"?
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Hunter1911: Yes they were known to break down.
Machine gun at the rear of the turret is an old concept. Japanese were employing it in most of their tanks.
Basically you traverse the turret and use the weapon you need at the moment, you can also cover your rear from infantry approach. Kind of impractical on tanks with slow turret traverse.
Machine gun at the rear of the turret is an old concept. Japanese were employing it in most of their tanks.
Basically you traverse the turret and use the weapon you need at the moment, you can also cover your rear from infantry approach. Kind of impractical on tanks with slow turret traverse.
Know Your Steel: KV-2