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Already at the end of March, foreign intelligence reported on the appearance of heavy tanks in Germany. What exactly the scouts had in mind is not completely clear. Nevertheless, the information received was taken very seriously. The development of more powerful anti-tank guns began, and in the tanks of the KV and T family, work began on strengthening the booking and screening of existing tanks.

Of course, serious changes have undergone and work on promising tanks. Already in the second decade of April , work began on a new car, heavier than the T and even the T Sychev, who was later replaced by B. Pavlov, was appointed first as a machine engineer. A mm cannon was indicated as a weapon, as well as three DT machine guns.

As the power plant was planned to establish strong V-2SN. Prior to the development of a new engine in production, installation was allowed, with subsequent replacement by a B-2CH, strong B It is worth noting that the Main Automobile Armored Directorate GABTU was against such a decision, suggesting instead of the rd to do the T with a mm cannon, having 3-K anti-aircraft cannon ballistics. A new tank was not created from scratch.

The KV-3 was a T with an extended case, like the T, on which it was supposed to install a turret, also made on the model of the T turret, with an mm F gun. From the very beginning it was stipulated that the turret would be produced by stamping. Even the construction of the hull for the prototype KV-3 was not made from scratch. The fact is that on February 10, , a set of parts for the hull of an experienced T tank Object arrived at the Kirov Plant.

It was a T with an elongated body, on which it was planned to install a KV-1 type turret with a mm cannon. The tank was supposed to be assembled as early as December 1, , but the Izhora Works delayed the shipment of parts for a number of reasons, and it was not up to it at the Kirov Plant.

In the aforementioned letter of Marshal Kulik, it was planned to install a 76 mm F cannon with a 3-K anti-aircraft cannon ballistic into the T turret. It was about the second model of the system, assembled in the autumn of - by the spring of , it began to be called ZIS These plans did not come true, since neither in February nor in March did anyone touch the T The same thing happened with the case of SAU A. And in April, it was finally decided to use the T case as the basis for the manufacture of the KV-3 case.

The task was facilitated by the fact that the T and KV-3 had the same thickness. It was necessary to strengthen only the front sheet. In parallel with the design work, tests of the T equipped with a B-5 engine were under way. It was this motor that was supposed to be installed in the KV-3 before mastering the production of V-2SN. Of course, the difference in horsepower was felt, but on the whole the tank could drive with such a mass, so the B-5 was suitable as a temporary measure. For the new tank, designer N.

Shashmurin developed the gearbox, which was a development of the gearbox for the T It should be noted that in parallel with it, the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization VAMM was entrusted with the development of an electric transmission. Transmission of this type, under the guidance of Professor N.

Gruzdeva, was developed in WAMM earlier on its own initiative. The corresponding tactical and technical requirements were approved on April 29, At the same time approved and requirements for hydraulic transmissions.

By April 26, a full-size model of the KV-3 was prepared, which passed a preliminary inspection. With full crew the idiot gun is even more reliable. Armour-wise, the KV-3's turret is a lot better than the IS turret, which has a huge cupola and large, weak cheeks. The extra degree of gun depression just reinforces that advantage.

Regardless, it's a Russian heavy, so you shouldn't be showing your hull, and if you get into the habit of relying on angling an IS to bounce shells you are going to hate the IS-3 and hate the IS-8 even more; both have very weak, pike-nose hulls and only 5 degrees of gun depression. Just as a matter of interest, have you played KV3 recently? I haven't sold it long ago , but I don't see many around, and those that I do see usually die quickly. No, I was asking Dangerous The thing is that KV3 has weak frontal armor against tier 8s.

The mid-plate and lower plate are butter even when angled. The small turret cheeks can also be penned if they are hit. Also, it is slow and inflexible, something that you don't want in a heavy.

It also has very bad view range which means it is almost blind. Although IS has worse armor, its superior mobility means that it can help support the mediums. The front can also troll poorly-aimed shots because of the design.

One thing to note that is the tier 10 IS4 is basically better than IS7 in every way so you may want to consider that when deciding which tank to play. Community Forum Software by IP. However, the factory and the designers chose to concentrate on developing the T instead, now under the name KV The tank was tested extensively and received a new hp diesel engine with supercharger.

However, not only the engine was suffering from the weight of 70 tons. Suspension and torsion bars bent and twisted, and the transmission had problems as well. Still, the tank was able to complete nearly 2, km of testing before the start of Operation Barbarossa. The factory started preparation for mass production again but was stopped by the Soviet military.

Intelligence showed that the Germans were also designing a heavy tank, so the Soviet design would become even more important. If it failed, the Soviet army would not have an adequate counter to the German threat. This meant the design of the KV-3 was again subject to modification of both hull and turret, and a new gun, the mm ZiS-6, was to be mounted on the tank.

Moreover, new, heavier tanks were demanded, most notably the KV-4 heavy tank. With a design weight of 90 tons, this tank was too heavy to go in production, especially taking into account the problems with the transmission that were plaguing the much lighter KV tank.

A KV-5 tank, with a hull height of 0. Possibly the most feasible design proposal was the KV-9 heavy assault tank. With a weight of 48 tons, a mm howitzer, and front armour of mm, this was a much more realistic design. Two prototypes of the tank were completed, but the tank never went into mass production. Finally, a turretless prototype, the KV-7, was sent to Moscow for review. The tank-mounted multiple guns and was rejected by Stalin for this reason. With the war underway, the KV factories that were experimenting with prototypes focused on mass production of the KV, the only Soviet tank that was truly feared by Germany at the time.

The unfinished prototypes were ripped of their experimental turrets and guns and were sent to the front with KV-1 turrets. The T KV-3 model served under the th tank battalion and was destroyed near the Ust-Tosno railway bridge in December The T was sent to the th tank battalion, but its fate is unknown.

Further development of the KV series was halted, but the experience of the testing was used to design the successful IS tank. Welcome to Wargaming. Tank Discussion.

View Source View history. Jump to: navigation , search. These differences are taken into account in tooltip boxes. Player Opinion. Pros and Cons Pros: Good all-around armour, really tough when angled High alpha damage with the mm cannon and above-average DPM Great at sidescraping, good gun depression -7 Well sloped Turret armour with auto bounce sides Good max speed for its size V-2SN engine Cons: Armor is very flat, vulnerable to T guns Low accuracy and sluggish behaviour.

Bad aiming time 2. Note that the KV-3 was buffed in 1. However, the KV-3 is already quite bulky fully-upgraded, and the suspension's added traverse will help.