Previously, T-26 tanks ( OT-26 , OT-130 , OT-133 ) were used as flamethrower tanks , however, weak armor made them vulnerable on the battlefield.
The first version of the KV flamethrower was developed in the summer of 1941 and received the designation KV-6. It differs from the KV-1 by the presence of an ATO-41 flamethrower instead of a DT machine gun, and a 110-liter tank with a fire mixture located in the fighting compartment.
The production of these machines was organized at the Kirov Plant, but due to the blockade of Leningrad, a limited series was produced. Despite the fact that the total number of assembled vehicles is unknown, 4 vehicles were in the 124th Tank Brigade of Colonel N. Rodin, formed in September 1941 in Leningrad, and were actively used in battles in the Leningrad direction.
КВ-6 — советский тяжёлый огнемётный танк периода Второй мировой войны
PS Flodhäst = Обыкновенный бегемот, eldkastarstridsvagn = Огнемётный танк och "бегемот танк" ledde direkt till svaret.
PPS Den fiktiva stridsvagnen måste vara:
in a number of sources there are references to a certain tank KV-5bis or KV-6 "Begemot" , also called the "Stalin Orchestra", which in reality is a hoax, a fictional project of a three-turreted heavy tank - "composite", which, however, received wide popularity and subsequently described in detail by Alexander Afanasiev. The illustration was made up of images of real-life technology, but had no semantic meaning, was technically almost impracticable and looked more like a caricature. According to Afanasiev, the designer Zh. Ya. Kotin began to develop the KV-5bis tank in 1942, on the personal instructions of Stalin . Manufactured by 1944, nine KV-5bis tanks were allegedly equipped with a tank company of the breakthrough named after Stalin, which took an active part in the Karelian operation and participated in the breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line without suffering any losses.
