| Soviet KV-85 Heavy Tank "white 57" | Model:35132 | The proportional model:1:72 | Browse the number:721 |
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A stopgap 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, mounting the same 85 mm D-5T gun as the SU-85 and early versions
of the T-34-85. Already-high demand for the gun slowed production of the KV-85
tremendously, and only 148 were built before the KV design was replaced. The
KV-85 was produced in the fall and winter of 1943-44; they were sent to the
front as of September 1943, and production of the KV-85 was stopped by the
spring of 1944 once the IS-2 entered full scale production.