[PROJECT S.N.A.I.L.] KV-2 (1939)
The start of the KV heavy tanks began after the heavy tank T-35 flaws came to light. Designers were ordered to draw up new designs to become the basis of a breakthrough heavy tank needed for the Soviet doctrine. This made for a tank that was heavily armoured, but not very mobile as it was to be for siege warfare. The designs offered all had heavy armour, wide tracks, and used the torsion-bar suspension. The designs were the SMK, T-100, and what would be the KV-1 tank, which was named after the then Soviet Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov.
During the developmental progress, the prototypes of all these heavy tanks were made and the Winter War with Finland was on its way. The Soviets sent these tanks into Finland for combat testing, to which the KV design outperformed in every way with its superior armour and firepower. The armour on the KV tank was impenetrable by a tank cannon in service and most anti-tank guns as well, the 76,2 cannon also gave it a huge firepower boost compared to the usual 37 mm in use by other countries. However, the design was found to be difficult to steer, the transmission was unreliable, ergonomics was poor and vision was limited, plus with its 45-ton weight, it was a very heavy tank for its time. In truth, while formidable in power and protection, courageous crew member willing to curse the name would speak out about the trouble the KV tank really was. The main variant of production before World War II broke out was the KV-1 model.
Despite its superiority on the battlefield, some observed that the KV-1’s armament was not enough to destroy some of the Finnish fortifications that they encountered. For this, a request to mount a 152 mm howitzer on the KV-1 was made and resulted in the KV-2 with its extremely large turret and an increased weight of 52 tons. The KV-2 suffered from a very high profile, low speed, and its turret was too heavy. Compared to the KV-1 height of about 9 feet, the KV-2 was at 11 feet tall. The increased weight of the tank slowed it down drastically, and the very heavy turret mixed with a low-powered traverse speed meant that the KV-2 can only traverse on level ground, as a slope would cause the turret to start turning with gravity. The combat ineffectiveness and flaws of the KV-2 came to light and was only put on limited production due to them, resulting in only about 334 units being produced from 1939 to 1941.
During the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, the KV tanks came as a huge surprise from the Germans as they had no prior intel about these tanks, resulting in a lack of capable anti-tank weaponry that could destroy these tanks, aside from 88 mm FlaK guns. The KV-2 served alongside the KV-1 in stalling the German Offensive to Moscow. During the Battle of Raseiniai, in Lithuania, a single KV-2 was able to hold up the entire 6th Panzer Division for a full day by firing at them from a concealed location before it ran out of ammunition, ending with about two dozen tanks destroyed.
Due to the low quantity of KV-2 produced, they didn’t see much service past the opening stages of the war due to loss from attrition or mechanical failures, however, 10 were still in service with the Voronezh Front on 4 July 1943 for the battle of Kursk. These were transferred to the 3rd Mech Corps on 9 July, and by 18 July only 1 was left serviceable – 5 were destroyed on 12 July, and 4 are recorded as being in repair from 13 July.
Only one KV-2 is left intact as a survivor of the war, it is housed at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow.
HP: 4450
AMMO: 36 per ammo type
RELOAD SPEED: 33.3 seconds
SPEED; 37 km/h forward, 7 km/h backwards
SEATS: 1, driver
WEAPONS: 152mm Howitzer
GUN MOVEMENT: 12 degrees of gun elevation, -5 degrees of gun depression
-IMMUNE to small and heavy damage type, can only get hurt from Anti-Tank damage type
-50% resistance to Anti-Tank damage type
-33.3 seconds to reload (don’t fire recklessly, aim carefully and fire when you know you’ll hit)
-slow turret movement
-no coax mg to get infantry down, so don’t push to the front lines, just supply heavy fire support
-the 2nd SAPCBC shell has better damage but it’s lower velocity, so aim higher to hit with it
SAPCBC
HE
SAPCBC
SHELL DAMAGE: 1049
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 3519
SHELL DAMAGE: 730
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 2794
SHELL DAMAGE: 1307
EXPLOSION DAMAGE: 4171
i gotta tell ya, nothing felt as great as one shooting the kv-2 with just one shell (2nd sapcbc) this thing is strong, at first i thought it wasn’t, and thought that it would have been better if gaijin had kept the AC and APHE shells (rip, i missed i could bring those back to war thunder) but no, it might’ve been overkill
ok, so the su-122 isn’t next week actually, ikr, shocker, but it’s coming (still next project snail vehicle), just that i have commissions to do and i need to finish my april fools mod, ik a whole month late, but i have all the pieces now, so yeah, until next time
WORKING AUTO HEADLIGHTS, WILL TURN ON WHEN IT’S NIGHTTIME, WORKS WITH DAY/NIGHT MUTATOR
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SU-122
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