On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:06 AM, antti2004 <antti2004@...> wrote:

> Not big thing this time. My eyes catched the profile of KV-85 (KV-1S
> modified to use 85mm gun), and I wonder, is there a typo or
> misunderstood in there? Profile says it is armed only with 85mm main
> gun and LMG, which is, based on other references, wrong.
>
> The KV-85 wielded 3x DT-light machine guns. One co-axial, one on a
> rear of the turret and one in the hull.


Everything I've seen says coax and turret-rear MGs. From
http://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?Itemid=50&id=49&lang=en&option=com_content&t\
ask=view
:

The first KV-85s were re-worked from excess KV-1S hulls, welding up the hole
> for the ball-mounted hull machine gun. The incorrect opinion has appeared in
> Western literature that there was a "second version" of the KV-85 with a
> flexible front machine gun. This confusion most likely arose as a result of
> study by Western experts of the only KV-85 tank that has been preserved to
> this day (monument in Avtovo, St.Peterburg), where a mistake was made in the
> restoration process.


Is the turret-rear MG accounted for in some other way perhaps?

- Bob


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