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The KhPZ's Komintern artillery tractor was based on the suspension of the T-12 tank (50 built from 1930) and later the T-24 (2,000 built from 1935 to 1941), powered by a 131-hp diesel engine. Unlike its predecessor tanks, the tractor was more successful and was put into mass production.
Wheeled British WWII Scammell Pioneer towing an 8-inch howitzer Tracked Finnish WWII Komsomolets (captured from USSR) Half-tracked German Sd.Kfz. 7 towing an 8.8cm Flak. An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres.
Specialized in tank building, the factory also was manufacturing artillery tractors, while initially as agricultural tractors. 1924-1931 Communard (used in agriculture) 1935-1940 Comintern; 1939-1941 Voroshylovets; 400-series; 1958-1958 Kharkovchanka, special purpose vehicle for Antarctica (4th Soviet Antarctic Expedition)
Based on an artillery tractor called the M2, the M3 debuted in 1940 as an armored personnel carrier big enough to deliver an entire platoon of 13 riflemen into combat. U.S. Army.
The ZiS-30 was one of a few hastily designed armoured fighting vehicles created by Soviet industry shortly after the German invasion during Operation Barbarossa in 1941. In August 1941 Grabin's design bureau at the Gorky plant no. 92 mounted the 57 mm ZiS-2 gun onto the chassis of a Komsomolets artillery tractor. [1]
Komintern may refer to: Comintern, a.k.a. communist International, an international communist organization that advocated world communism; Komintern (rural locality), several rural localities in Russia; Komintern, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan; Komintern, the name of the T-24 tank#Artillery tractors; Soviet cruiser ...
Since the Komintern was designed to tow heavy artillery, the first 50 tractors had a powerful engine (4 cylinder 15 l. 131 hp gasoline), a fully enclosed truck cab behind the engine, followed by a wooden cargo bed or benches for up to 12 gun crew.
Satellite photos suggest North Korea gave Russia half a million 122- and 152-millimeter artillery shells. What does that mean for battles to come? It Sure Seems Like North Korea Gave Russia ...