KV-85
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KV-85
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900,000 Cost |
920194 HP Hit Points |
45.98/46.823.5/49 t Weight Limit |
- Commander (Radio Operator)
- Gunner
- Driver
- Loader
500600 hp Engine Power |
34/14 km/h Speed Limit |
2830 deg/s Traverse |
10.8725.53 hp/t Power/Wt Ratio |
NoNo Pivot |
// mm Hull Armor |
100/90/90100/90/90 mm Turret Armor |
AP/APCR/HE
AP/APCR/HE Shells |
109/2800/98
1025/4800/608 Shell Cost |
160/160/280390/390/530 HP Damage |
120/161/43175/217/61 mm Penetration |
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12.24 r/m Standard Gun ▲
3 Rate of Fire Standard Gun |
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Standard Gun
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Standard Gun
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1958.4 Standard Gun ▲
Standard Gun
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Standard Gun
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1170 Damage Per Minute Standard Gun |
m ▲
0.38 m With 50% Crew: 0.471 m ▲
0.5 Accuracy With 50% Crew: 0.619 m |
s 2.9 s 3.6 Aim time |
2828 deg/s Turret Traverse |
360° Gun Arc |
-3°/+23°-3°/+20° Elevation Arc |
7028 rounds Ammo Capacity |
1515 % Chance of Fire |
m 320 m 340 View Range |
m 325 m 440 Signal Range |
VI
900000
The KV-85 is a Soviet tier 6 heavy tank.
A further development of the KV-1S tank. Unlike the previous modification, the KV-85 had enhanced armament. The vehicle was developed in the spring of 1943 at the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant. The tank entered service on August 8, 1943, and was mass produced until September, with a total of 148 vehicles manufactured. The KV-85 was used by the breakthrough armored regiments of the Red Army.
Like its predecessor, the KV-1S, the KV-85 is heavy tank that trades armor for speed and maneuverability. The KV-85 is most deadly on the flanks of its opponents, where it can go to work on them with either a fast firing 100mm gun with excellent DPM, or a high-alpha 122mm gun capable of taking out half a tier VI heavy's health in one hit.
The KV-85 marks the end of its Soviet heavy line.
Modules / Available Equipment and Consumables
Modules
Tier | Engine | Engine Power (hp) |
Chance of Fire on Impact (%) |
Weight (kg) |
Price ()
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VII | V-2IS | 600 | 15 | 750 | 36000 | |
VI | V-2K | 500 | 15 | 750 | 23050 |
Tier | Suspension | Load Limit (т) |
Traverse Speed (gr/sec) |
Rmin | Weight (kg) |
Price ()
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V | KV-85 | 46.8 | 28 | B/2 | 12400 | 9100 | |
VI | KV-122 | 49 | 30 | B/2 | 12400 | 15390 |
Tier | Radio | Signal Range (m) |
Weight (kg) |
Price ()
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IV | 9R | 325 | 80 | 1980 | |
V | 10R | 360 | 100 | 3660 | |
VII | 10RK | 440 | 100 | 18600 |
Compatible Equipment
Compatible Consumables
Player Opinion
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Choice of two equally effective top guns
- 100mm gun features great RoF and DPM, with reasonable accuracy while the 122mm gun features very high alpha damage
- Good maneuverability and speed for a heavy
Cons:
- Useless gun depression: -3
- Poor view range
- Flat, relatively thin hull armor
- Terrible aim time, accuracy, and reload with the 122mm gun
Performance
The KV-85 is characterised by its poor armor, excellent guns and its above-average mobility for a heavy tank. Coming right out of the KV-1S, players will be right at home playing the KV-85 as they are virtually the same tank. However, the KV-85 has one of the poorest none-SPG gun depression of -3, meaning that hills and ridges are a definite no-no.
When fully stock, the KV-85 is a real pain in the neck to play with. The stock 85mm D-5T gun is wholly inadequate for its tier and can even bounce from a KV-1 most of the time. The tank's main advantage, its speed, can also only be found in the upgraded engine, meaning that a stock KV-85 is very sluggish. The weak armor, slow speed, and poor pentration of the gun would mean that it is very hard tank to grind, not the mention that an upgraded gun requires both the turret and the new suspension. However, the difficult grind is well worth the effort, as the KV-85 has impressive selections of guns.
When armed with the 100mm S-34 gun, the better penetration and damage should make things better. With a reload of 7 secs or more, an alpha damage of 250 and an accuracy of 0.39, the tank is more well equipped to dealing with tier 7 and 8 better than ever. The low alpha means that this gun is suited as a dpm gun, where its good rate of fire coupled with respectable penetration and damage can lay waste to enemies in minutes. With the upgraded engine, the KV-85 essentially become a slower but better armored medium tank that can flank slower heavy tanks and target their sides and rear armor. That being said, the poor alpha of the 100mm S-34 gun means that tryimg to slug it out with other heavies is a death sentence, where the gun's accuracy and DPM is near useless. Use it as an impromptu sniper or flanker and this tank can be very useful to the team.
When equipped with the 122mm D-2-5T, the tank changes drastically from a flanker into an opportunistic brawler. The 20 sec lomg reload, poor accuracy of 0.53 and an aiming time of 3.4 secs mean that this gun is best suited for close to point blank combat, where the gun's impressive damage of 390 will send medium and light tanks flying off the map and leave gaping holes in heavies. However, the inaccuracy of the gun mean that the tank must get close to the enemy, where the butter armor can easily be pentrated. As such, it would be wise to follow another heavy tank for supporting fire and when they are shot by the opposing enemy and they reloading, you can pop out and smack their faces across with 390 average damage without fear of retaliation. In the right hand, this gun can easily cause the most damage, just watch out for misses as one AP shell costs 1025 credits.
All in all, the KV-85 is a very versatile tank, able to a flanker and a brawler. The poor gun depression, armor, and sometimes even the inaccuracy guns of the tank might be a great disadvantage, but they all help in one thing; they teach you to be patient, cautious, and help you to familiarise with future Soviet heavy tanks ( the guns), all of which are importsnt to succeed.
Early Research
After the Split of the KV-1S and KV-85, the S-34 gun is no longer needed to be researched first if seeking the 122mm D-2-5T, however, you still need the top turret and presumably the upgraded suspension. The top engine will further enhance the KV-85s agility and will make playing the tank considerably more rewarding.
Suggested Equipment
Gallery
Historical Info
Nonetheless, because of its initial superior performance, the KV-1 was chosen as one of the few tanks to continue being built following the Soviet reorganization of tank production. Due to the new standardization, it shared the similar engine (the KV used a 600 hp V-2K modification of the T-34's V-2 diesel engine) and gun (the KV had a ZiS-5 main gun, while the T-34 had a similar F-34 main gun) as the T-34, was built in large quantities, and received frequent upgrades.[citation needed]
When production shifted to the Ural Mountains 'Tankograd' complex, the KV-2 was dropped. While impressive on paper, it had been designed as a slow-moving bunker-buster. It was less useful in highly mobile, fluid warfare that developed in World War II. The turret was so heavy it was difficult to traverse on uneven terrain. Finally, it was expensive to produce. Only about 300 KV-2s were made, all in 1940-41, making it one of the rarer Soviet tanks.
As the war continued, the KV-1 continued to get more armour to compensate for the increasing effectiveness of German weapons. This culminated in the KV-1 model 1942 (German designation KV-1C), which had very heavy armour, but lacked a corresponding improvement to the engine. Tankers complained that, although they were well-protected, their mobility was poor and they had no firepower advantage over the T-34 medium tank.[citation needed]
In response to criticisms, the lighter KV-1S was released, with thinner armour and a smaller, lower turret in order to reclaim some speed. Importantly, the KV-1S also had a commander's cupola with all-around vision blocks, a first for a Soviet heavy tank. However, the thinning-out of the armor called into question why the tank was being produced at all, when the T-34 could seemingly do everything the KV could do and much more cheaply. The Soviet heavy tank program was close to cancellation in mid-1943.
The appearance of the German Panther tank in the summer of 1943 convinced the Red Army to make a serious upgrade of its tank force for the first time since 1941. Soviet tanks needed bigger guns to take on the growing numbers of Panthers and the few Tigers.
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; 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 autumn 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.