Russian medium tank T-34 COBI 3061 - World of Tanks

You know that:

• T-34 tanks were produced the most of any World War II tank ?
• The idea for the new tank was conceived by the designer A. Firson, who was executed by Stalin ?
• The author of the design was the young engineer Mikhail Koshkin ?
• To push through the innovative tank design in the face of Marshal Kulikov's opposition, Koshkin personally followed Stalin from Kharkov to Moscow in the bitter cold with the T-34 prototype ?
• The designer succeeded, and Stalin decided on mass production ?
• Unfortunately, the designer died of pneumonia a few weeks later after an 800-km journey, because he had forgotten an important thing when designing the tank, the heater?
• Its production was so simple that even unskilled labour (unfortunately women and children) who were not deployed on the front lines could assemble it ?
• In total, more than 80,000 units were produced in various versions ?
• 44,900 were lost in combat ?
• German General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist called the T-34 the best tank in the world at a general meeting ?
• The T-34 tanks were able to drive easily over soft terrain thanks to their wide tracks ?
• It is still included in the decorations of 9 countries around the world today ?

Technical parameters:

• length 6.75 m, width 3.00 m, height 2.45 m
• weight 26 500 kg
• frontal armour thickness up to 60 mm
• propulsion 12-cylinder M-17 T gasoline engine with 500 hp
• maximum speed 53 km/h
• 4 forward and 1 reverse speed
• range 310 km
• wading distance 1.3 m
• main weapon F-34 cannon 76.2 mm calibre
  secondary weapon 2x DT machine gun 7.62 mm calibre
• crew 4

Autor: Maksim Barjatinskij

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