112, first using the D-5T 85 mm gun. I have been told it operates and is in mechanically good condition. 112.The T-34-85 gave the Red Army a tank with better armour and mobility than the German Panzer IV tank and StuG III assault gun. Soviet firing tests against a captured Tiger I heavy tank in April 1943 showed that the T-34's 76 mm gun could not penetrate the front of the Tiger I at all, and the side only at the very close range. Standard practice when moving the T-34-85 cross-country in non-combat situations was to fully elevate the gun, or reverse the turret.During the Korean war, the USA captured a T-34 85. In comparison with the T-34-85 program, the Germans instead chose an upgrade path based on the introduction of completely new, expensive, heavier, and more complex tanks, greatly slowing the growth of their tank production and aiding the Soviets in maintaining a substantial numerical superiority in tanks.On 12 January 1945, a column of Tiger IIs among other tanks from 424th Heavy Panzer Battalion were involved in a short-range engagement with T-34 85 tanks near the village of The first captured T-34s entered German service during the summer of 1941. The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in 1940, famously deployed during World War II against Operation Barbarossa.. Its 76.2 mm (3 in) high-velocity tank gun was more powerful than its contemporaries while its 60 degree sloped armour provided good protection against anti-tank weapons. Koshkin's team completed two prototype T … Rodkin commented: "the tank could have dug the ground with it in the smallest ditch [filling the barrel with dirt]. Soviet tank crews struggled at longer ranges with the additional frontal armour applied to the later variants of the Panzer III and Panzer IV, and were unable to penetrate the frontal armour of the new German Panther or Tiger I tank at standard combat ranges without tungsten rounds, and had to rely on tactical skill through flanking maneuvers and combined arms.After improved German Panzer IVs with the high-velocity Not only were the weapons of German tanks improving, so was their armour. "Is" as in current, front-line equipment. Values have ten folded, and likely to double again. After these battles, Koshkin convinced Soviet leader Valuable lessons from Lake Khasan and Khalkhin Gol regarding armour protection, mobility, quality welding, and main guns were incorporated into the new T-34 tank, which represented a substantial improvement over the BT and T-26 tanks in all four areas.Political pressure came from conservative elements in the army to redirect resources into building the older T-26 and BT tanks, or to cancel T-34 production pending completion of the more advanced Resistance from the military command and concerns about high production cost were finally overcome by anxieties about the poor performance of Soviet tanks in the The T-34 posed new challenges for the Soviet industry. The use of poorly machined, low quality steel side friction clutches and the T-34's outdated and poorly manufactured transmission meant frequent mechanical failure occurred and that they "create an inhuman harshness for the driver". 14 "The incredible T-34 tank." There were nine ready rounds of ammunition stowed in racks on the sides of the fighting compartment. Russian T54 Main Battle Tank. Photos from US Army … American losses were somewhat greater.One of the last modern conflicts which saw the extensive combat deployment of the T-34-85 was the Czechoslovak-produced T-34-85s were used by Egypt in the Arab-Israeli Wars of 1956 and 1967 in the Sinai Peninsula. The caterpillars used to break apart even without a bullet or shell hits. During the Korean war the Americans captured a North Korean T-34 85, evaluating its performance. When in June 1941, the From the point of view of operating them, the German armored machines were almost perfect, they broke down less often. Korea, 1950Marine Corps University Command and Staff College (1986) Honnigfort, Bernhard. Analysis from the CIA suggested it was due to "inadequate design" due to the fact that the quality of materials used was not poor.Initially, the Wehrmacht had great difficulty destroying T-34s in combat, as standard German anti-tank weaponry proved ineffective against its heavy, Despite this, the Soviet corps equipped with these new tanks lost most of them within weeks.Other key factors diminishing the initial impact of T-34s on the battlefield were the poor state of The weakness of mechanized corps lay not in the design of their equipment, but rather in its poor mechanical state, the inadequate training of their crews, and the abysmal quality of Soviet military leadership in the first month of the war.As the invasion progressed, German infantry began receiving increasing numbers of the At the same time, the Soviets incrementally upgraded the T-34. 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