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Interesting KV 'Big turret' photo
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Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 04:06 PM UTC
Can pick out bits of the interior....



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Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 07:53 PM UTC
Thanks for sharing!
Where did you get it?
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Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 08:07 PM UTC

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Thanks for sharing!
Where did you get it?


From the lifetime's supply of Dreadnaught photos HERE

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Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 08:22 PM UTC
Roger-copy Drader,

Definite bookmark page there!

Guys, see this one, the internal explosion split the hull in twain! Is that an 88 penetration R of the drivers visor?

http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/kv2/images/kv-2_128.jpg

BTW< David, can anyone make out what that is on the horizon to the left of the carcass? Another dreadnaught of some type (T-28 w/o smaller turrets), an armored train vehicle?
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Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 08:30 PM UTC

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Roger-copy Drader,

Definite bookmark page there!

Guys, see this one, the internal explosion split the hull in twain! Is that an 88 penetration R of the drivers visor?

http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/kv2/images/kv-2_128.jpg

BTW< David, can anyone make out what that is on the horizon to the left of the carcass? Another dreadnaught of some type (T-28 w/o smaller turrets), an armored train vehicle?


Wow! Wonder what hit that one to cause that type of destruction.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 08:35 PM UTC

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Roger-copy Drader,

Definite bookmark page there!

Guys, see this one, the internal explosion split the hull in twain! Is that an 88 penetration R of the drivers visor?

http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/kv2/images/kv-2_128.jpg

BTW< David, can anyone make out what that is on the horizon to the left of the carcass? Another dreadnaught of some type (T-28 w/o smaller turrets), an armored train vehicle?


Most of the damage is the result of the detonation of the onboard ammunition, specially in the second photo where the RHS has been pushed out, that must be internal.

The hole is first pic is probably not a penetration - the KV Big Turret had a pistol port there, the internal explosion must have blown the plug out. The tank in the background of the photo in my post looks on cursory inspection like a KV-1.

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Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 01:15 PM UTC
What is difficult to determine is how many vehicles of this period (beginning of Barbarossa or Taifun) were actually lost to German action, how many were actually destroyed by their own crews and how many (loads) were simply dumped after breaking down or running out of fuel.

At that point (apart from the 88) there were few German weapons capable of penetrating a KV2 although a direct hit from artillery fire would turn it into scrap iron...
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Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 01:51 PM UTC
That looks like a KV-1 on the horizon. Look to the right of the turret and that looks like an engine access door is open, maybe?

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Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 02:14 PM UTC

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That looks like a KV-1 on the horizon. Look to the right of the turret and that looks like an engine access door is open, maybe?

Rob-

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Convinced it's a KV-1, apparently with someone standing on the hull roof in front of the turret and with the two circular access hatches over the gearbox/final drives open.

David
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