Parola Armour Museum’s T-34/76 from 1941
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Seven tanks had been taken to Finnish exhaust all the blueprint thru Continuation Warfare. First T-34/76 modified into taken to Finnish exhaust in October of 1941. The final of these tanks remained in Finnish exhaust till year 1961. The tanks had been both captured in fight and introduced from Germany.
Finnish estimates and experiences:
Early Finnish estimate of T-34 tank: “Armour pretty enough, diesel-engine works reliably even in cool weather, escape pretty enough – it looks the tank has a factual off-avenue mobility. Our troops like succeeded destroying these tanks with satchel charges thrown to rear deck. Tank crew has unfortunate visibility exterior, tank tracks can also moreover be broken with satchel charges, antitank-mines or with 37-mm antitank-guns. 45-mm antitank-gun can penetrate decrease aspect hull armour between avenue-wheels or if the tank is tilted suitably (turning sloped aspect hull armour into vertical feature) it would penetrate also greater aspect armour.”
Finnish tank crews found T-34/76 to obviously be a huge boost over earlier tanks luxuriate in T-26E and captured Soviet T-26. No longer handiest modified into its 76-mm tank gun much more efficient and armour safety priceless in opposition to Soviet antitank-weapons, but thanks to wide tracks, highly efficient diesel engine and showed factual mobility in typical Finnish terrain and likewise deep snow. No longer like with gentle tanks even person tree or two had been no reliable obstacle, since T-34 modified into found faithful knocking down trees decrease than 80-cm thick. For the rationale that sequence of captured T-34 tanks taken to Finnish exhaust remained continually very puny, it seems seemingly that the majority faithful crews had been handpicked for them. As talked about the principle three T-34 tanks taken to Finnish exhaust had been issued to Heavy Tank Company of Tank Battalion and when the Battalion modified into expanded to Brigade, they went to 3rd Tank Company (1st Battalion) of Tank Brigade. When further T-34 tanks had been received in summer time of 1944 also they ended as much as this tank company.
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