Two, curiously parallel 'panics' emerged during the first weeks of the German invasion of Russia. The first, from the German side, was that they had grossly underestimated the actual numbers (and quality) of the Soviet tank forces' capabilities, the second, from the Soviet side, that German AT capability was far greater than originally envisaged. Both were in fact true. The latter from the point of view of the Soviets, led to a series of conversions to their KVs which would involve the addition of extra armour. Thus was born the 'Ekranami' program... The program essentially called for a series of bolt-on 'kits' to be produced for the KV-1 model 1940, redesignating them as the KV-1 S Ekranami Model 1941.
This is the latest 1:16 Scale Smoking Edition Russian KV-1's Ehkranami RC Battle Tank with Bigger and More Powerful Engine! It has a built-in smoke generator and produces simulative motor start-up sound, engine sound, machine-gun sound, and cannonball sound. Its 2 feet in length! With full multi-directional driving (and its fast!), turret swivel and barrel raise and lower, you'd think that that would be good enough. But oh no, the coup de grace, the absolutely fantastically wonderful thing about this tank, is that it fires pellets!
