kv 1 tower with crew 3D model

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The need to create a heavy tank with anti-cannon armor was well understood in the USSR. According to Russian military theory, such tanks were necessary to break into the enemy's front and organize a breakthrough or overcome fortified areas. Most of the armies of the developed countries of the world had their own theories and practices of overcoming the powerful fortified positions of the enemy, experience in this was acquired during the First World War. Such modern fortified lines as, for example, the Maginot Line or the Siegfried Line were considered even theoretically insurmountable. There was a misconception that the tank was created during the Finnish campaign to break through the Finnish long-term fortifications (Mannerheim line). In fact, the tank began to be designed at the end of 1938, when it finally became clear that the concept of a multi-turret heavy tank, like the T-35, was a dead end. It was obvious that the presence of a large number of towers, although it is an advantage in firepower, inevitably entails side effects in the form of a complication of the design and, as a consequence, its rise in price, production speed and less reliability. And the gigantic dimensions of the tank only make it heavier and unmasked and does not allow the use of thick enough armor. The initiator of the creation of the tank was the head of the ABTU of the Red Army Corps Commander DG Pavlov.