![]() ![]() The suspension consisted of coiled springs, and each side of the vehicle had five large diameter road wheels. The lower elliptical turret was equipped with an A-19 76.2mm (3 inch) gun, and a rotating turret mounted on top of the first one which was fitted with a 37mm (1.46 inch) PS-2 gun. The TG tank was a large tank with two independent tiers of armament. Grotte was assigned to the Leningrad AVO-5 design bureau. Between 19, his design team came up with the TG tank. In the heavy tank department, the German engineer Ernst Grotte was brought in from Germany, a country banned from tank development. The USSR would either pay for engineers to come to the Soviet Union and help build tanks, buy blueprints from foreign powers and visit tank factories or outright purchase foreign tanks wholesale and begin local manufacture. However, as Soviet engineering was still in its early stages of modernization, and as Soviet engineers had little to no experience designing tanks, it was decided to outsource Soviet tank designing to foreign sources. ![]() It would also give Soviet engineering a fantastic opportunity to put its skills to the test, which were comparatively primitive to those of the USA and Great Britain in the late 1920s. These consisted mostly of obsolete Mark V heavy tanks and Medium Mark A Whippets.ĭesigning and mass-producing a new vehicle would help the fledgling Red Army set foot on the international stage again. After hard fighting during the Civil War (1918-1920), the vehicles of the Red Army were worn out and obsolete. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the USSR was desperate for a modern army. It was one of the many proud achievements of Soviet industrialisation – its image appeared on posters, films, and even medals and awards! Prototypes This tank grabbed the hearts, souls, and imaginations of the Soviet people and foreign military attachés alike. The T-35A tank is one of history’s strangest tanks – often seen crawling across the Soviet inter-war era parade squares. ![]()
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