Quote Originally Posted by Ariovistus Maximus View Post
Some of their tanks were weirder than all getout!!! Like the version of the T-26 that they made into a GLIDER tank??? Who on earth comes up with this stuff??



And then this mess here:



Of course, they more than made up for it with the T-34/85 and the IS-3! But still, those early-war designs were disasters!

I also like the KV-1. So cool to have a big howitzer as main armament!
I will not hear a word said against the T35 - a multi turret wonder - maybe it was a bit of an operational disaster - but I thought it did fairly well in Finland - but it looks soooo threatening, like some enormous armoured behemouth - the sort of tank you would draw as a kid.

By the way the KV2 had the 150mm howitzer in a large turret. The KV1 had a 76mm like the T34, but was heavier. The KV1 had a Whittman moment early in the Russian campaign where a KV1 held up an armoured divison for a day or 2 - see Krasnogvardeysk in the Wiki article[URL="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov_tank"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov_tank[/URL]

Lieutenant Kolobanov obviously did not have such a good PR machine as Whittmann - the KV1 seems quite like the Tiger - brilliant in certain positions, but not good all rounders like the T34 and Panther