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Cuba received 150 T-34-85 tanks as military aid from the Soviet Union in 1960. The T-34-85 was the first Soviet tank to enter service with the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), along with the IS-2. Many T-34-85 tanks first saw action in April 1961 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion with an unknown number destroyed or knocked out during the ...
SU-85 was a T-34-based tank destroyer armed with an 85 mm D-5T gun. SU-85M was an improved SU-85 with enhanced frontal armour and the commander's station raised and moved outward into a sponson. SU-100 was an upgrade of the SU-85M platform with an 100 mm D-10S gun. SU-122P was an attempt to enhance the SU-100. The model was armed with a 122mm D ...
Designed at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory by Konstantin Chelpan and his team, it is found in the BT-7M (BT-8), T-34, KV, IS and IS-10 (T-10) tanks, and by extension, the vehicles based on them, such as the SU-85 and SU-100 tank destroyers based on the T-34 and the ISU-122 and ISU-152 self-propelled guns based on the IS-2. Throughout its ...
The Mandela Way T-34 Tank, nicknamed Stompie, is a decommissioned Soviet-built T-34-85 medium tank, formerly located on the corner of Mandela Way and Page's Walk in Bermondsey, London, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The tank was regularly repainted in a wide variety of colour schemes, often by graffiti artists.
In November 1943 Red Army tank units were reorganized: light tanks were replaced by the T-34 and new T-34-85, which started production the following month. At the outset of the war, T-34 tanks amounted to only about four percent of the Soviet tank arsenal, but by the war's end, they comprised at least 55% of the USSR's massive output of tanks ...
T-34, a Soviet tank circa 1940; T34 Calliope, a World War II American tank-mounted rocket launcher; T34 Heavy Tank, an American tank; Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, an American trainer aircraft; Slingsby T.34 Sky, a British glider; German torpedo boat T34, a German warship of World War II
The T-43 medium tank was a prototype Soviet medium tank developed during the Second World War as a possible replacement for both the T-34 medium and KV-1 heavy tanks. The project's aim was to build a medium tank with heavier armour, but German advances in tank technology proved better countered by a more heavily armed T-34-85 and the T-43 was cancelled.
The SU-85 (Samokhodnaya ustanovka 85) was a Soviet self-propelled gun used during World War II, based on the chassis of the T-34 medium tank. Earlier Soviet self-propelled guns were meant to serve as either assault guns , such as the SU-122 , or as tank destroyers ; the SU-85 fell into the latter category.