Soviet Union SPOB 11 KV-1 tank-gun confusion.

Guardian_SPR · #11 February 18th, 2007, 03:01 AM

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DRG said:
Interesting, The Kv-85 did not have a BMG.

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The first KV-85s were re-worked from excess KV-1S hulls, welding up the hole for the ball-mounted hull machine gun. The incorrect opinion has appeared in Western literature that there was a "second version" of the KV-85 with a flexible front machine gun. This confusion most likely arose as a result of study by Western experts of the only KV-85 tank that has been preserved to this day (monument in Avtovo, St.Peterburg), where a mistake was made in the restoration process. According to archival data, 148 KV-85 tanks were produced; they were sent to the front beginning in September 1943. Simultaneously, output of the KV-1S tank was continued until December 1943.

http://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?...d=49&Itemid=50

Now removed from the unit..

Don

3MGs...