Picture of the day.

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

Rolling armour plates for T-34 tank in Ural factory no.183 in Nizhny Tagil, 1942

the pic source: the Internet.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

A captured soviet 85mm 52-K model 1939 AA gun, 1941

the pic source: Bundesarchiv.

 

[michaelmaltby]

... was that gun ever adopted as the 88 was, for armor?

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

... was that gun ever adopted as the 88 was, for armor?

Yes, the gun was adopted for the purpose. The barrel of the 52-K was the basis for the family of 85-mm Soviet tank guns. For example the D-5T 85mm gun for SU-85 initially and then for T-34/85. Later the T-34/85 model 1944 and all later T-34/85s used the ZiS-S-53 also based on the 85mm AA gun. Also, like many anti-aircraft guns of the era the 52-K was provided with antitank ammunition just in case a tank would appear.

 

[Wurger]

the pic soiurce: the Internet.

 

[michaelmaltby]

.... rough fit-and-finish aside, the T-34 is a very graceful, effective, design ...no Allied tank comes close and the Panther was a knock-off.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

The captured by Russians , German Pz.Kpfw. III and StuG III in 1942.

the pic source: the Internet.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Gnomey]

Good stuff guys!

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

the pic source: the Internet

 

[michaelmaltby]

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German squad with Heevee (sp?)

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: Bundesarchiv.