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 ...

In this episode, we revisit the extraordinary stand of a Soviet KV-1 tank near the Lithuanian town of Raseiniai in June 1941, during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa. As German armored ...

During the brutal fighting around Leningrad, Soviet commander Zinoviy Kolobanov set a deadly ambush along a narrow road later ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: For armament, the KV-1 had a single short-barrel seventy-six-millimeter L11 gun in the turret, as well as 7.62-millimeter machine guns in the hull and turret. There was ...