The new version reinforced the hull armor from 75 mm to 90 mm and a new cast turret was designed which had a frontal armor of 120 mm. Under the assumption that one cannot have enough of the best, the new KV-1 model 1942 had an even thicker armor on the hull and turret than the previous KV-1 model 1941. Since the reconstruction of the relocated Kirovskiy plant in Chelyabinsk, the Kotin Development Office, called TsKB-2 (Central Development Office 2), had introduced a number of modest improvements to the KV-1. ![]() The vehicle that needed the most attention was clearly the heavy KV tank. ![]() Therefore, the Russians saw themselves forced to put their so far exclusive attention from the simplification of the mass production of the past tank models on an improvement of the quality. ![]() After the Wehrmacht had already begun in 1942 to improve the armament and armour of its previous main tank models Panzer III and Panzer IV and to introduce the new 7.5cm Pak 40 widely to the Eastern front, the Russians were aware that the German new heavy Tiger tanks and Panzer V Panthers would also appear in the foreseeable future.
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