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What if the Soviets never got the American Christie tank?
No T-34!
-I know it's off thread but i couldnt help it.
Was the suspension on the KV1 based on the Christie? That was a piece of work as well as the T-34. Granted, not as adaptable or revolutionary, but still a handful for the Panzers.
Based on? Inspired? Copied?
-- depends on your symantics
From WIKI:
Because large road wheels and "slack track" are characteristic of the Christie suspension, other designs with these features are sometimes misidentified as such. The real Christie suspension was used only on a few designs, notably the Soviet BT tanks and T-34, the British Cruiser tanks, including the A-13, Covenanter, Crusader and finally Cromwell, as well as some experimental Italian designs.
Christie suspension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I watched the documentary Secret Russian Aircraft of World War II and I still remember that the RP-218 suborbital spaceplane project (similar to X-15 in flight profile) to had to be shelved after Korolev was arrested on false charges of treason and sent to the infamous gold mines in Koloyma, and most RNII personnel were executed for treason. Details about the RP-218 can be found at this page:I think the History Channel had something on this recently. If I remember right I think Stalin cancelled the program and had many of those involved shipped off to work camps - Imagine That!
Bereznyak-Isayev BI rocket jet interceptor - history