List of all Soviet/Russian Heavy Tanks

KV prototypes
КВ-1 с "круглой" башней

KV with V-2KF engine, looks to have been installed in one KV-1 mod 1941/42 and two KV-1S.
Tank Archives: Less Armour, More Mobility
Tank Archives: Not Quite a Swallow
Tank Archives: First KV-1S

KV-1 ZiS-22 and KV-1 F-27 (seems the F-27 was actually installed in a KV-1)
Tank Archives: Big Gun for a Small Turret (older, erroneous article with several mistakes)
https://dzen.ru/a/X6mLrIms5A2ak_hI?sid=71581699141559431 (updated article)
Tank Archives: ZiS-5 (3-K) (ignore the caption, read article above for full story)

KV-1 with F-34 (though now I’m starting to suspect it might not be an actual F-34, but again an earlier version of the ZiS-22/ZiS-5) (see above)
Про пушки для танка КВ-1 - Книга про КВ — LiveJournal

EKV
Tank Archives: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Tank Archives: EKV Production Pitch

History of KV-3 (150, 220, 221, 222, 223) I can’t find that the 220 was called KV-3, I definitely could be wrong on that, but it was called KV-4.
https://dzen.ru/a/X_94ZP2nolPThdf2?sid=170395212105449463
Tank Archives: Mass Breakdown
https://dzen.ru/a/YMsniyPEpkwndI32?sid=170395212105449463
Tank Archives: Kirov Factory Prototypes, March 1941

IS-1 (all prototypes) referred to as IS-3
Tank Archives: IS-3, Take One

IS-2 prototype referred to as IS-3
Tank Archives: Beginnings of the D-25

IS-2 with different early muzzle brakes
Tank Archives: IS with a Heavy Gun

IS-3 prototype Kirovets-1
Tank Archives: Baby IS-3

IS-4 development history
Советский тяжелый танк ИС-4 - Maxim Viktorovich Kolomiets
Tank Archives: IS-4 Start to Finish

The T-10 being called IS-9 and IS-10 is only done by poor sources. No reputable source mentions these names. And again, they don’t even fit the timeline.

T-10MK (I can’t find anything other than forum posts talking about T-10, T-10A and T-10B command versions right now)
Танк T-10

Object 265 (again, poor sources, but all seems to point to it being armed with the M-62 making it not that interesting)
http://www.dogswar.ru/oryjeinaia-ekzotika/bronetehnika/7209-opytnyi-tank-lobekt.html
https://arsenal-info.ru/b/book/1120360644/5

Other T-10 prototypes (poor sources)
Отечественные бронированные машины 1945 – 1965 гг. . Техника и вооружение 2014 07 (transmission improvements)
http://rus-guns.com/otechestvennye-bronirovannye-mashiny-1945-1965-godov.html
Информация

T-10 with improved engines V-12-6B and V-12-6F (poor sources)
Отечественные бронированные машины 1945 – 1965 гг. . Техника и вооружение 2014 07
Информация

ZiS-25 gun project
Tank Archives: 85 mm ZiS-25
Tank Archives: ZIS-25
Tank Archives: End of the ZiS-25

OBM-51 gun project
Tank Archives: The KV's Last Bow
Tank Archives: Soviet Very High Power Guns: BL-9

Improved KV-85
Tank Archives: The KV's Last Bow

Object 752 and 777
Несчастливые три семёрки | Warspot.ru

Object 718
Object 718 - Tank Encyclopedia

85mm Strela in 278 and 770 (unknown source, and it does not list 277)

Information on the 140mm M-65GL (М-65ГЛ) smoothbore is spread across the internet, but most point back to russian wikipedia and I’m now starting to question if most of it isn’t bullshit. The project itself is historically reasonable, but I wouldn’t trust any of the information on it currently.
http://37.143.9.186/showthread.php?t=35010

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Thanks a lot! When I have more time I’ll start adding them!

KV-85 and KV-122 are modelled very incorrectly in game, their rear, front middle and lower front armor aren’t the same as on the KV-1S they’re based on. Also their top speeds are again too low. The picture mentions 40km/h, which is lower than KV-1s likely because of the weight, while it’s potential top speed is likely the same 45km/h


https://t34inform.ru/photo/photo_Album_NIBP-1945.html
Also KV-122 has 520hp like the IS series instead of 600 of the KV series

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Okay I’ve gone ahead and add a bunch of the things you posted here. I did not go much into the more obscure stuff that we have no photos of. So I might have skipped some if I couldn’t find any photos of them.

Thanks for linking my suggestion posts! Hope they make it into the game, along with all the others!

No problem! I’ll try to keep an eye on the Russian suggestion side of things so that I can link more of the heavy tanks to this post when people make suggestions for them.

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Those guns look so nice but the price of getting one is absurd

I’d love to see the 107mm KV-3 prototype, it’d make a good 6.0-6.3 heavy tank in game.

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I want that T-10 with an ATGM so bad.

This is an awesome list.

Where’s the mighty KV-6 landship!?!

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Somewhere in fantasy land!

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I’m gonna do another pass of corrections again.

1. This is not a ZiS-22. Ignore my previous belief that this was an earlier ZiS-22

https://img-forum-wt-com.cdn.gaijin.net/original/2X/7/70a73a480852e77ddc8cb8c55f37b38c7b8dc390.jpeg

This gun with the flat mantlet and longer barrel is the ZiS-22, which was an F-22 barrel imposed onto an F-34 breech.


This KV-1 is carrying an “unmodified” F-34, which was done in February 1941. And here is also the order for it, as it was to be done before March 1st 1941.

2. The T-221 (“KV-3”) was partially built.

Just not as originally planned. After the realisation that the F-30 wouldn’t fit, the T-221 eventually morphed into the same elongated hull as the T-220 but with the 90mm armour layout of the T-150. The hull was partially built, and was later to be reused to create the object 223 prototype in order to save production time. But even this didn’t happen.

https://dzen.ru/a/YMsniyPEpkwndI32?sid=13799915534243473

3. KV-13 (Объект 233) (1942) was not called object, just 233. And it carried a ZiS-5 cannon.

https://dzen.ru/a/X226CzqjnkOqxz6d?sid=343455091904197401

5. IS-1 Prototype (Объект 233IS) (1943) (Improved KV-13) did not use a ZiS-5 cannon, but an F-34.

Why it didn’t use a ZiS-5 I haven’t seen any explanation for.

5. The KV-13 (Объект 234) and IS-2 Prototype (Объект 234IS) are the same tank.


The proposal to mount a 122mm in the KV-13 came in late 1942, when work on the improved KV-13 (IS-1) had already begun. Though the prototype carried the KV-9 turret with U-11 howitzer, the plan was to mount an improved howitzer D-12 in the lower profile improved KV-13 turret. This never got completed by the time the prototype was built though.

This is also not a prototype for the later production IS-2. Their connection is none. They just happen to share a name and gun bore diameter.

6. Just so we’re clear, the name “KV-85G” is an unofficial one.

https://dzen.ru/a/X8SzvWPVdAQVCd0Q

7. There is another KV-85 variant that could be added to the list, the “Improved KV-85”

It was a proposed counter project against the IS-1, where ChKZ SKB-2 proposed that the KV-85 could be kept in production instead of replacing it with the IS-1 by completely reworking its armour and giving it sloped front plates. No drawings have survived though.

“The front of the hull is the most interesting part. According to the description, the thickness of the armour increased to 90 mm, and the shape of the plates changed. The top plate was angled at 30 degrees, and the bottom at 60 degrees to horizontal.”

8. Note that the KV-220 never went into battle with the 85mm turret.

Both KV-220 prototypes saw service with regular KV-1 (F-32) turrets.

https://dzen.ru/a/YK4pvExBKhDOWvJj

9.The IS-1 (object 237) prototypes were armed with S-31 and D-5T guns. The S-18 was the SPG version of the S-31.

And seperating them into “IS-85 (Объект 237)”, “IS-1 (Объект 237 Nº1)” and “IS-1 (Объект 237 Nº)” is weird. Object 237 index is simply refering to the project itself. Both prototypes (No.1 and No.2) had 6 road wheels. They hardly differed at all. And they were both initially armed with S-31, and later both rearmed with the superior D-5T.

https://dzen.ru/a/ZOyCZE89SV5MYOZ8?referrer_clid=1400&sid=134429082557042662

https://dzen.ru/a/ZMDrrbytC2CI0BV0

10. There’s also the actual IS-2 model 1943 that should be added.

Initial production of the IS-2 that ran between December 1943 and March 1944 (145 tanks) were armed with an earlier variant of the D-25T that still had the interrupted screw breech and “Ferdinand type” muzzle brakes inspired by the… Ferdinand.

11. The IS-2U was never built.

The improved IS-2 design named IS-2U designed by Experimental Plant No.100 was only submitted in November 1944 and came to late to be approved. As the IS-3 prototype (Kirovets-1) was already present and impressing all higher ups.

ChKZ’s improved IS-2 design however, was built. In September 1944. But it didn’t have as catchy of a name as Experimental Plant No.100’s contender.

It too had a narrow turret. But its hull front was essentially identical to the production 1944 model. But there were many changes to the engine compartment. This, though unconfirmed, certainly served as the inspiration for the IS-3 prototype (Kirovets-1), as the team gave up on this vehicle, and started designing the Kirovets-1 at around the same time.

12. Got a source that object 252 was ever called IS-5?

I have seen some suggestions that Experimental Plant No.100 used the IS-5 name during development of their improved IS-2 designs, which led to the object 252. But I’ve never seen anything concrete. It also doesn’t make sense, as they were the ones that designed the object 248 IS-5, hence why they named their next creation IS-6 (object 252). But there’s still the possibility that they considered these new designs evolutions of their IS-5 tank already, and thus kept the name. But without a decent source I wouldn’t spout it.

13. IS-5 (object 730) was not a further development of the IS-3.

Although the design took inspiration from both the IS-3 and IS-4. It was still a completely new development. It also took heavy inspiration from the developments of the IS-7. It was the culmination of all knowledge they had at that point.

https://warspot.ru/4474-posledniy-sovetskiy-tyazheloves

14. Unlike commonly said, Khrushchev didn’t cancel all heavy tanks in 1960.

He expressed a will to do so, but it wasn’t an order. It did effectively kill all heavy tank programs, but the object 279 project still lived on until January 1961, and the object 770 until February 1961.

A.G. Solyankin , I.G. Zheltov, K.N. Kudryashov. (2010) Domestic Armored Vehicles XX century Volume 3 1945-1965.

15. Got a source that “object 743” was used for T-10M?

To me that just looks like a spelling error. Someone accidentally swapping the 3 and 4 of object 734.

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KV-3 (Obj. 223), KV-8/8S, KV-9, KV-1K, and KV-100 would all be amazing additions to the game.

Thanks as always for the help!

  1. I don’t remember where I got that from xD

  2. I think you’re right. I’ve just removed it from the list since it served no real purpase anyways.

T-42 and t-39 super heavies from the interwar period, both would lead to the development of the t-35
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There is also the 1000 ton festungs panzer (fortess tank), not sure if you would count it though.
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There are also the first world war landships designs like: the tsar tank


Mendeleev tank
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And captured red army mk.v tanks
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Object 282, a special one created on the chassis of the T-10.


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275-ton cruiser tank

There are are a few production T-35s you missed: the original obr. 1934 g. T-35, though its only differentiated from the in-game T-35 but using the 71-TK radio station instead of the later 71-TK-2 starting from 1935, and then the 71-TK-3 starting from 1936. Additionally, the obr. 1938/39 g. can be again differentiated by their radios: the first equipped with a handrail antenna, the last equipped with a whip antenna, and then the last three tanks also receiving a turret box.

The T-100 can also be differentiated into two versions: initially equipped with the weaker L-10 gun, but rearmed with the stronger L-11 gun by the time of the Winter War.

The KV-1s can also be further differentiated. In total, there were three types of turrets during their production run:

  • Welded turrets with a rectangular rear
  • Welded turrets with a rounded rear (which I personally call “composite” turrets)
  • Cast turrets with a rounded rear, used as early as the initial 1939 models despite popular perception

All three were produced at the same time throughout the KV-1’s production run. Adding even more confusion into the mix, some were also equipped with the M-17T engine instead of the standard V-2K engine starting from late 1940; though all M-17T-equipped tanks would later be converted back to a V-2K engine starting from 1942, assuming that the order was followed fully. Then including the four major models: the obr. 1939 g. with the 76-mm obr. 1938/39 g. (L-11) gun, the obr. 1940 g. with the 76-mm obr. 1939 g. (F-32) gun, the obr. 1940/41 g. or 1941 g. with the reinforced applique armour, and the obr. 1941 g. or 1942 g. with the 76-mm obr. 1939 g. (ZiS-5) gun; and you have easily over a dozen variations of the baseline KV-1.

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