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Model 1940 (German designation: T-34/76A) - This was a production model built in 1940, armed with a L-11 76.2 mm tank gun; it had a welded or cast two-man turret. Due to a shortage of new V-2 diesel engines , the initial production run from the Gorky factory was equipped with the BT tank's MT-17 gasoline-powered engine and an inferior ...
Some Russian historians use different names: they refer to the first T-34 as the T-34 Model 1939 instead of 1940, all T-34s with the original turret and F-34 gun as Model 1941 instead of Models 1941 and 1942, and the hexagonal-turret T-34 as Model 1942 instead of 1943. [209]
T-34-76 (Model 1941) (26 tonnes) at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in 1987 KV-1 (45 tonnes) on display in Kirovsk. Prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, the German armed forces were not aware of two newly developed Soviet tanks, the T-34 and the KV. As a result, they were surprised when they met them in combat for the first ...
A T-34 destroyed at the Battle of Prokhorovka, 1943. The German Wehrmacht had about 5,200 tanks overall, of which 3,350 were committed to the invasion. This yields a balance of immediately available tanks of about 4:1 in the Red Army's favour. The T-34 was the most modern in the world, and the KV series the best armoured.
The main armament of the T-34-57, saw very limited usage in combat. 76.2 mm L-10 tank gun: 76mm Anti-tank gun Soviet Union: The main armament of the T-28 tank. L-11 76.2 mm tank gun: 76mm Anti-tank gun Soviet Union: The main armament of the T-34 Model 1940 tank. F-32 tank gun: 76mm Anti-tank gun Soviet Union: The main armament of the KV-1 Model ...
T-34, a Soviet tank circa 1940; T34 Calliope, a World War II American tank-mounted rocket launcher; T34 Heavy Tank, an American tank; Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, an American trainer aircraft; Slingsby T.34 Sky, a British glider; German torpedo boat T34, a German warship of World War II
Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin (Russian: Михаи́л Ильи́ч Ко́шкин; 3 December 1898, Brynchagi, Yaroslavl Oblast – 26 September 1940) was a Soviet tank designer, chief designer of the famous T-34 medium tank. The T-34 was the most produced tank of World War II. He started out in life as a confectioner, but then studied engineering. [1]
During 1941 the L-11 was replaced on T-34 production lines by the 42.5 caliber F-34 and on KV-1 production lines by the 31.5 caliber F-32. Despite being considered a superior design the performance of the F-32 gun was not substantially better than the L-11 and inferior to the F-34 gun used on the T-34.