One expects a ‘heavy tank’ to be heavily
armored but the T-35s long hull made it prohibitively weighty to install thick armor plates.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The multi-turret land battleship proved to be a blind alley in tank development there was nothing one oversized and over-gunned tank could do that several, much cheaper armored vehicles couldn’t do better. Still, the T-35 amounted to an impressive icon of Soviet might just not a successful war machine.
Recently, a Russian military museum in Sverdlovsk unveiled a moving replica T-35 tank, recreating one of the largest tanks ever to see combat, though only
It was meant to wipe out the U.S. Navy. Check out all of Moscow s military dreams.
Here s What You Need to Remember:
Many of the Soviet bombers of the post-war era were direct analogues to US types. The Tu-4, in fact, was a direct copy of captured American B-29s. The Sukhoi T-4 was the USSR’s answer to the B-70 Valkyrie. A massive, incredibly fast bomber capable of high altitude flight, the T-4 tested (and in many ways exceeded), the limits of the Soviet Union’s defense industry. Designed to hit Mach 3, with a service ceiling of around 70,000’, the T-4 resembled the B-70 visually, and in capability. However, because the organization of airpower in the Soviet Union differed from that of the United States, T-4s were also considered for tactical missions, such as reconnaissance and the delivery of anti-ship missiles. The idea of a T-4 carrying Kh-22 anti-ship missiles is very scary indeed.
The Soviet military combined grandiose vision and global aspiration with a defense-industrial base that had severe limitations.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Some of these weapons would have dominated the battlefield - if the cash-strapped Soviet state could have afforded them. On the other hand, some would have likely been a tremendous waste of already-limited resources.
For nearly seven decades, the defense-industrial complex of the Soviet Union went toe-to-toe with the best firms that the West had to offer. In some cases, it surprised the West with cheap, innovative, effective systems. In others, it could barely manage to put together aircraft that could remain in the air, and ships that could stay at sea.