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They had weak armor, were easily spotted, and didn t have good firepower.
Here s What You Need To Know: These tanks were deadly, but to their own crews.
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
very briefly. Indeed, a few dozen T-35s charged straight into the largest tank battle in history and none came back. Overtaxed transmission and faulty clutches proved a greater nemesis than armor-piercing shells.
Soviet Land Ironclad
In his 1903 short story, science fiction writer H.G. Wells imagined that the wars of the future would be won by towering ‘Land Ironclads’ a term referencing nineteenth-century armored warships. Just thirteen years, the United Kingdom deployed the first Mark I tanks to battle, each bristling with multiple cannons and machineguns operated by a crew of eight.
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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