Soviet heavy tank KV-85 "white 57"

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Soviet heavy tank KV-85 "white 57"

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An interim upgrade to the KV series was the short-lived KV-85 or Objekt 239. This was a KV-1S with a new turret designed for the IS-85, with the same D-5T gun from 85mm than the SU-85. and early versions of the T-34-85. Already high demand for the gun slowed production of the KV-85 considerably, and only 148 were built before the KV design was superseded. The KV-85 was produced in the fall and winter of 1943-44; they were sent to the front from September 1943, and production of the KV-85 was halted in the spring of 1944 once the IS-2 entered full-scale production.