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That's the soviet heavy tank KV-2. The KV-2 was a vesion of the KV-1 tank but armed with the 152mm M-10 howitzer. The KV-1 heavy tank was armed with the L-11 76,2 mm gun initially. The L-11 gun appeared not enough for destroying of wooden, concerte shelters during the Wither War in Finland. Therefore Russians decided to use the 152mm howitzer instead of the L-11 gun. Because the M-10 howitzer mount was bigger than the one of the L-11 gun , the tank got new bigger turret.
 
....in the hands of a skilled commander, the KV, in a key location, could seriously disrupt the schedule ... and psychologically speaking .... they impressed the German footsoldier ... in 1941, German armor could hardly crack them ... but like everything else, the Soviet Command aka Commrade Stalin, threw them fanatically at the Germans ... wasted probably 85% of them built [5,219 built] But, ungainly as these early KVs look, they became the underpining and systems for the radical, new hull-designed JS Stalin series that started turning up late 1944. The Tigers could handle them but thy could handle the Tigers
 
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