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DRG said:
There are all new KV Icons in the game for V2 so the old icons are not relavant
I will make the two unit corrections. That source I quoted confirms the L-11 gun on the M1939 and the F-32 on the KV-1E M1940
Don
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Yes, thats is cool.
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DRG said:
Check your sources and see if you can tell me when the last KV-1's were withdrawn from the front
Don
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That is wery hard to pinpoint precisely but generaly the tanks were used until battlefield losses phased them out. Acording to a book I have on the subject of Soviet tanks "Punaiset panssarit by Pekka Kantakoski" on page 115 it says that there were no "confirmed" sightings of KV-1 tanks in the summer 1944 offensive on the Karelian isthmus (Finland) and that by that time they had all been replaced by KV-85's and IS- heavy tanks. Now this does not necessarily mean that there weren't some still left in summer of 1944 but they were wery rare by that time.
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Marek_Tucan said:
Just checked out battlefield.ru, they claim only that "tank was sent to front" without specifications, however they're using "tank" hinting just one piece went.
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Yes I was looking at the Russian battlefild site too. I have also read about it somewhere else and acording to what I had heard I got the understanding that only one prototype was used.
However looking at the book again "Punaiset Panssarit" it says not one but two KV-1 prototypes took part in the attack in December 17 1939, the book may be wrong in this since its made in 1996 and new information may have become available since then from the Russian archives. Acording to the book and the info on the Russian battlefield site it was the same engagement where the SMK heavy tank prototype and T-100 were tested. Of the SMK tank there are photographs taken also. From those test the KV-1 was chosen (wisely) as the new heavy tank for mass production.
Here's the link for the article on the battlefield.ru -site I was reading, scroll down to the mid way of the page and it starts to speak about the winterwar whit KV -prototype, SMK, T-100, etc...:
http://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?...d=54&Itemid=48
Also during the winterwar the KV-1 tank if it was indeed used more it was wery unknown to the finnish troops and also it became as a completely new tank to the Germans in 1941. Also less than 200 KV-1 M1939 (the first series production) manufactured during 1940, so it was not wery numerious.