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Toward the middle of February 1940, the RKKA received 27 screened T-26 mod. 1939 tanks and 27 KhT-133 flame-throwing tanks; an additional 15 T-26 mod. 1939 tanks were armoured by workshops of the 8th Army in Suoyarvi in the beginning of March 1940. All in all, 69 T-26s with appliqué armour were used during the Winter War and 20 more were ...
The first military operation of the RKKA in which T-26 light tanks participated was the Soviet-Japanese border conflict, the Battle of Lake Khasan in July 1938. The Soviet tank force consisted of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade and two separate tank battalions (the 32nd and the 40th).
TU-26 teletank control vehicle with a dummy flame-thrower to represent KhT-130 (OT-130) flame-throwing tank at Kubinka Tank Museum. More than 50 different modifications and experimental vehicles based on the T-26 light infantry tank chassis were developed in the USSR in the 1930s, with 23 modifications going into series production.
T-24 medium tank A T-26 tank. A tank design bureau was established at the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (KhPZ) in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine, in 1928. The first tank project of the factory was the T-12 (or T-1-12). This was a larger version of the T-18, with a more powerful engine.
On 6 July the corps had 974 tanks, including: 7 KV tanks, 10 T-34 tanks, 595 BT tanks, 242 T-26 tanks, 61 flamethrower tanks, and 59 T-37/38 amphibious tanks. [11] The corps was to advance 135 kilometres (84 mi), reaching Lepel through Senno. [12] A burning T-34 tank of the type used by the corps.
In January, the corps received T-34/85 tanks from the 1st Guards Mechanized Corps. [22] The German relief attempt at Budapest in late January, Operation Konrad III, surprised the corps. Its counterattack was defeated by tanks of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. [23] On 13 February the corps was thanked by Stavka for its actions in the offensive.
A destroyed T-26 of the type used by the corps. The 26th Mechanized Corps was formed in March 1941 in the North Caucasus Military District.The corps included the 52nd and 56th Tank Divisions, and the 103rd Motorized Division (the former 103rd Rifle Division). [2]
The division began forming in February–March 1941 in the Western special military district as part of the 14th mechanized corps at the base of the 32nd tank brigade in the southern military town on the outskirts of Brest. The corps was equipped with 235 tanks, [1] most of which were the obsolete T-26. [2] The corps had half of its authorized ...