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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

If that's the tank you're thinking of you should probably not be very proud. The irony of using AI to generate knockoff images of soviet tanks... Seriously tho why not get an image of a KV-1? Or an IS-3? For a country that produced some incredible tanks, this is among the worst. (It's also only 50 tons - this might be referencing the KV-5 which had a similar profile)

The KV-2s were awful. Their biggest contribution was in spooking the germans with the thickness of their armor, which is a real win and spurred even dumber and more wasteful german tank programs, and teaching soviet designers what not to do in future heavy tank models.