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Production of this first T-34 series – the Model 1940 – totalled only about 400, [29] before production was switched to the Model 1941, with the F-34 gun, 9-RS radio set (also installed on the SU-100), and even thicker armour.
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 ...
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.
T-34 tanks headed to the front. The Soviet "Big 7" Below is a list of tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles of the Russian empire , Soviet Union , the Russian Federation , and Ukraine .
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 1940 tank. F-34 tank gun: 76mm Anti-tank gun Soviet Union: The main armament of T-34-76 and KV-1 tanks. D-5T tank gun: Developed from 85mm M1939 (52-K) air-defence gun Soviet Union
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.
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