Hard History of the Soviet Heavy Tank KV “Klim Voroshilov”: Weapons and military equipment of the world [Kindle Edition]

Hard History of the Soviet Heavy Tank KV “Klim Voroshilov”
Weapons and military equipment of the world

This book is devoted to the history of the creation of a heavy tank "Klim Voroshilov." After a long path of modernization, it turned out to be one of the best fighting vehicles in the Soviet Union. Here you can learn about the history of its creation and also compare the various modifications of the tank.

Content:

The way to the first tanks KV
The history of the creation of a heavy KV tank

Intro

In 1939 - 1945 the tanks played a decisive role on the battlefields of the Second World War. Tank connections were the main striking force of the armies of countries that took part in the war and were actively used on all fronts of the fighting. It was the tank troops in the Second World War that began to play a major role on the battlefields.

Along with aviation and artillery tanks were one of the decisive factors to achieve victory in the rapid offensive operations that were conducted throughout the war by the troops of Germany, the USSR, the United States and Britain. A decisive breakthrough in a certain sector of the front with the subsequent resolution of major strategic tasks without the use of tanks was simply impossible. In the Second World War, tank troops were mobile mobile units of the army. But only by acting large forces the tanks could achieve impressive results.

The first to realize this was the German generals. Talented German commanders such as General Guderian and Manstein, using large tank groups, solved complex tasks with limited forces, having managed to defeat the Polish army in two weeks, and then in a little more than a month to defeat France and press the Anglo-French forces against Dunkirk, opponents crushing defeat. Tank troops were a means of making quick strikes on the selected sector of the front, and not letting the enemy come to their senses, conducting bold operations on the encirclement of its forces. The massive blows of the tank forces became the hallmark of all the serious offensive operations of the period of 1939 - 1945…….