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    Wow, what a stupid tank the Russians designed...

    Well it looks very strange.



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    Quote Originally Posted by coalition View Post
    Wow, what a stupid tank the Russians designed...

    Well it looks very strange.



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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_tank
    Some of their tanks were weirder than all getout!!! Like the version of the T-26 that they made into a GLIDER tank??? Who on earth comes up with this stuff??



    And then this mess here:



    Of course, they more than made up for it with the T-34/85 and the IS-3! But still, those early-war designs were disasters!

    I also like the KV-1. So cool to have a big howitzer as main armament!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ariovistus Maximus View Post
    Some of their tanks were weirder than all getout!!! Like the version of the T-26 that they made into a GLIDER tank??? Who on earth comes up with this stuff??



    And then this mess here:



    Of course, they more than made up for it with the T-34/85 and the IS-3! But still, those early-war designs were disasters!

    I also like the KV-1. So cool to have a big howitzer as main armament!
    I will not hear a word said against the T35 - a multi turret wonder - maybe it was a bit of an operational disaster - but I thought it did fairly well in Finland - but it looks soooo threatening, like some enormous armoured behemouth - the sort of tank you would draw as a kid.

    By the way the KV2 had the 150mm howitzer in a large turret. The KV1 had a 76mm like the T34, but was heavier. The KV1 had a Whittman moment early in the Russian campaign where a KV1 held up an armoured divison for a day or 2 - see Krasnogvardeysk in the Wiki article[URL="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov_tank"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov_tank[/URL]

    Lieutenant Kolobanov obviously did not have such a good PR machine as Whittmann - the KV1 seems quite like the Tiger - brilliant in certain positions, but not good all rounders like the T34 and Panther
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    ? I thought the KV-ONE had the howitzer and the KV-TWO had the 76mm... lemme see here...

    OOP! I see you are right! Silly me. Where did I get the mix-up from?

    KV-1:


    KV-2:


    Speaking of which, I AM DYING to go to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds someday!!! All those rows of tanks remind me of it...

    And as to the T-35, well, performing well against the Finns who had no armor or air support to speak of is not saying a whole lot... and the Finns STILL managed to stomp the Russians for a good long time... truly exemplary job done by the Finns. Or abominable job by the Russians, however you like.

    Admittedly it does look cool and like a kid drew it. That I will concede. Maybe Zhukov was doodling one day in the 20's and...

    And you must admit that the T-28 is rediculous. A GLIDER tank??? They couldn't make it work b/c none of their planes could tow it effectively!!!

    And what about:


    Not a tank perhaps but definitely a tub! The Russians clearly demonstrate a propensity for ugly, inept machines in the interwar period. Although I can't say much for certain British tanks and aircraft either...

    But in both cases they improved as they gained experience.
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    Actually I looked into the T35 and it wasn't really used in Finland - must have been a folk memory.

    The interwar years had some marvellous machines - often crazy looking, but always interesting. The sad bit was when they were exposed to the rigours of war and they were often found to be lacking. This was particuarly true of planes - the Fairey Battle - England's main light bomber in 1939, but slaughtered by the German air force - and the Devastator - beautiful US Torpedo bomber, but shot out of the sky by the Japanese.
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