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The T28 super-heavy tank was an American super-heavy tank/assault gun designed for the United States Army during World War II. It was originally designed to break through German defenses of the Siegfried Line and was later considered as a possible participant in the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland.
The film is based on the real story of the feat of the crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank under the command of Semyon Konovalov, [1] which took part in an unequal battle on 13th July 1942, and destroyed 16 tanks, two armored vehicles and eight other vehicles from enemy forces in the area of the village of Nizhnemityakin , Tarasovsky District, Rostov ...
This yields a balance of immediately available tanks of about 4:1 in the Red Army's favour. The T-34 was the most modern in the world, and the KV series the best armoured. The most advanced Soviet tank models, however, the T-34 and KV-1, were not available in large numbers early in the war, and only accounted for 7.2% of the total Soviet tank ...
In the summer of 1932, Sergey Lukonin, a young man from Saratov (played by Nikolai Kryuchkov), leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend a tank school. His fiancée, Varenka, stays behind in Saratov, where she eventually becomes an actress. In 1936, Sergey heads to the Spanish Civil War, where he is captured by the Germans.
The T-28 was in many ways similar to the British Vickers A1E1 Independent tank, which greatly influenced tank design in the period between the wars, even though only a single prototype was manufactured in 1926. The Kirov Factory in Leningrad began manufacturing a tank that was based on the design of the British Independent in 1932. The T-28 ...
Later, after some time in another place, the regiment again engages in battle with enemy tanks. The tanks crush the positions of the defenders: the young corporal Kochetygov dies a heroic death, having managed to set fire to the tank with the help of a Molotov cocktail with his last breath. The remaining Soviet soldiers launch a counterattack ...
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The film is about a badly wounded Soviet tank commander on the Eastern Front of World War II who becomes obsessed with tracking down and destroying a mysterious, invincible Nazi tank, which the Soviet troops call the "White Tiger". The Soviets design a new, more powerful T-34 tank and assign the tank commander the job of destroying the White Tiger.