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The Soviet tanks that stopped blitzkrieg in its tracks
When Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, its armored forces expected another swift victory. Instead, they encountered the ...
Key Point: The KV had potential but wasn’t used right. Morever, they were too tall and easy to spot. A day after the German blitzkrieg into the Soviet Union in June 1941, more than 200 Nazi tanks were ...
Before the legendary Tiger and Panther tanks roared onto the battlefield, Germany was caught off guard. The Soviet T-34 and KV-1 tanks blindsided Nazi forces, rendering German weapons shockingly ...
Key point: Despite their superior armor, the KV tanks simply sacrificed too much mobility, reliability and cost-efficiency to equal the success of the T-34. In the first six months of Operation ...
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