Kirovets-1 is the worst Soviet heavy tank in tier 8.The tank has the worst gun handling of all other heavy tanks.Buffed IS5 has a better cannon than this garbage.Gun aiming 100 years and often misses.Aiming and hitting weaskpots on tier 9 or tier 10 tanks is a nightmare and a pain.Against tier 6,7 and 8 gun work and vs tier 9 and 10 is useless.It has gold with 270mm penetration, but with this precision it is bad for shooting.Every tank with + 230mm pierces the gun mantle easy.Mobility is ok for a heavy tank.Lower frontal plate(180-190mm) if you don't hide you're fucked.Frontaly often losing driver and ammo-rack.The ammo rack on this tank is very weak.Tier 6 with HE shell can damage the ammo rack.Ammo-rack get damaged in almost every game and need to fix 1 or 3 times in one battle.Upper frontal plate is penable with + 250mm.The rear part of the tank (similar weakspot on IS7) burns when you get hit.The upper part of the tank at the back is 20 mm, when arty hit, you receive full dmg.Why is this tank bad? Because it was free for 15m silvers.If the tank was paid, it would be an OP with different parameters.I have a Defender that also has an inaccurate gun but has much better armor and a bigger alpha.The tank is only suitable for training the crew and only if you do not have any premium tanks in the garage !!! Kirovets earns little credits because often misses and gold shell is expensive.APCR 221mm cost 1200 credits, HEAT 270mm cost 5200 credits.Avg dmg on this tank I barely have 2000 with 2 marks on gun.
If this tank is in the future according to these parameters in the wg shop or for the marathon, just ignore it because it is the biggest garbage.
Just need to improve the parameters of the gun to be playful.
I'm sorry I don't know English very well. I hope you understand.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldofTanks/comments/tgxnix/kirovets1_tier_8_is_garbage/
