Heavy tanks, despite what their designation may suggest, weren't simply designed to be great, lumbering hulks. Thick armor to absorb punishment was paramount, certainly, but so too was relative ...

Key point: Despite their superior armor, the KV tanks simply sacrificed too much mobility, reliability and cost-efficiency to equal the success of the T-34. In the first six months of Operation ...

The KV series shocked German forces in 1941 with armor that most weapons could not penetrate. As the war continued, mobility issues, mechanical failures and increasing enemy firepower forced rapid ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Red Army was an early practitioner of mechanized warfare. In the first six months of Operation Barbarossa, the brutal Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Panzer tanks ...