When it was introduced, the KV-1 heavy tank had the thickest armour of any tank in the world, but it was too slow and had a poorly laid out turret, limiting its fighting ability.

The heavy KV-1 was too slow for combined operations with the faster T-34, so the Red Army developed a faster skorostnoy (‘high-speed’) version, that was more reliable and effective in combat.

The Red Army developed flame-tanks before the war to assist their infantry to overrun and destroy enemy positions. The KV-8 is the toughest in this long lineage. It mounts an ATO-41 flame-thrower in the turret in place of the machine-gun, with a smaller 45mm gun replacing the 76mm gun to make room for it.

THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS:

• 5x KV Tanks that can be built as KV-8, KV-1 or KV-1s Tanks
• 1x Decal Sheet

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These miniatures are supplied unassembled and unpainted