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The museum has the world's largest collection of armoured fighting vehicles and contains well over 880 vehicles, although The Tank Museum in Bovington in Dorset has a larger number of tanks. Because of shortage of space, less than a quarter can be exhibited, despite the move to a much larger building in 1993.
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.
New for 2023, “Tanks for the Memories: The Tank in Popular Culture”, was created for the 100th anniversary of the Tank Museum. It is an exhibition looking at how the tank has become a cultural icon through the manufacture of multiple toys, games, models, and the production of works of art, books, comics, video games and films. [14]
These models were mostly vehicles featured in the museum and sold in the museum store. 1970s collector Cecil Gibson stated that normal Dugus for retail sale were more complex, while the ones available for the Museum (the 'Museo' series) were less detailed, which seems 'cart before the horse'. [5]
The National Civil War Naval Museum, located in Columbus, Georgia, United States, is a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) facility that features remnants of two Confederate States Navy vessels. It also features uniforms, equipment and weapons used by the United States (Union) Navy from the North and the Confederate States Navy (Southern /Rebel) forces.
After a period at the training area it sent back to its original manufactures who may have used it for tests relating to the development of the whippet tank. [8] By 1925 it was at Bovington. [9] Though it never saw combat, Little Willie was a major step forward in military technology, being the first tank prototype to be finished.
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The stridsvagn 74's development path stretches through the stridsvagn m/40 and m/42 to the original 16,257 kg/16-ton Lago tank, manufactured by the Swedish firm Landsverk for the Hungarian Army. [3] The 74 was therefore in essence a modernized version of the World War II strv m/42 tank which was itself an attempt to bring Swedish-produced tanks ...