KV-1B walk-around at Bovington Tank Museum

The KV-1 was designed to support the infantry rather than fight other tanks; a role left to faster medium tanks. Heavy armour would make it immune to fire from contemporary ant-tank guns. It was decided to put the KV heavy tank into production in December 1939, alongside the T34-76 medium tank. The new tank was fitted with the same gun as the T34-76, the L11 76.2mm tank gun and the same engine, the Trashutin V-2 diesel. The KV-1 was continually developed between 1940 and 1943:
The Tank Museum’s KV-1 was presented to the British Army’s School of Tank Technology by the Soviet Union in 1943. After evaluation by the British Army it was donated to the Tank Museum.

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