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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 early 1944, an upgraded tank, the T-34-85, gave the Red Army a tank with better armour and mobility than German Panzer IV and Sturmgeschütz III, but it could not match the Panther in gun or armour protection. To the Soviet advantage there were far fewer Panthers than T-34s, and the T-34-85 was good enough to allow skilled crew and tactical ...
It produces diesel engines, farm machinery, coal mining, sugar refining, and wind farm equipment, but is best known for its production of Soviet tanks, including the BT tank series of fast tanks, the famous T-34 of the Second World War, the Cold War T-64 and T-80, and their modern Ukrainian successor, the T-84.
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.
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