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The PT-76 is a Soviet amphibious light tank that was introduced in the early 1950s and soon became the standard reconnaissance tank of the Soviet Army and the other Warsaw Pact armed forces. It was widely exported to other friendly states, like India, Indonesia, Iraq, Syria, North Korea and North Vietnam.
The Vickers-Carden-Loyd floating tank. It is widely thought that the T-37A was a copy of the Vickers floating tank, [note 2] with the Soviet purchase of such tanks in mind. However, closer examination of the turn of events leads to the discrediting of such a theory, but it is true that the Soviet T-37A prototypes were heavily influenced by the ...
In 1928, the Soviet Union began the production of the MS-1 tanks (Малый Сопровождения -1, where M stands for "small" and S for "convoy"). In 1929, it established the Central Directorate for Mechanization and Motorization of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Tanks became a part of the mechanized corps at this point.
Operational. range. 170 km. Maximum speed. 40 km/h. The T-38 amphibious scout tank was a Soviet amphibious light tank that saw service in World War II. Developed as a modernized version of the earlier T-37A light tank, the T-38 proved to be only a moderate improvement over its predecessor, and was eventually replaced in 1940 by the T-40.
T-III (T-3) - captured Panzer III. T-V (T-5) - captured Panther tank. SU-76i - captured Panzer III modified to mount an 76mm S-1 gun on a tank destroyer configuration. SU-85i - captured Panzer III modified to mount an 85mm D-5S-85A gun on a tank destroyer configuration.
Anti-aircraft tanks and missile systems. Rocket artillery. Tactical ballistic missiles. Armored personnel carriers. Reconnaissance vehicles. Engineering vehicles. Unarmored trucks and utility vehicles. References. List of equipment of the Soviet Ground Forces.
IS tank family. Turret side: 90 mm at 20° angle. The IS tanks (Russian: ИС) were a series of heavy tanks developed as a successor to the KV-series by the Soviet Union during World War II. The IS acronym is the anglicized initialism of Joseph Stalin (Ио́сиф Ста́лин, Iosif Stalin).
The BT-SV ( B ystrohodny T ank- S talin V oroshilov) was an experimental Soviet light tank. In 1936, Soviet engineer Nikolay Tsyganov proposed a new high-speed light tank based on the BT-7. The design was to incorporate sloped armor similar to the T-34, which was also being developed at the time, and a transmission identical to that of the BT-7.