![]() ![]() Kubinka proving ground, 1940.įlame-throwing tanks formed around 12 per cent of the series production of T-26 light tanks. This vehicle was produced in 1935 and partially modernized between 19, when new road wheels with removable bands and an armoured headlight were installed. 1931 with TKhP-3 tank chemical equipment. T-26 light tanks were also modified into armoured combat vehicles in the field during wartime.įlame-throwing (chemical) tanks T-26 mod. As a result, work on self-propelled guns and armoured carriers ceased in the USSR during that time. Many Soviet tank engineers were declared "enemies of the nation" and repressed during Stalin's Great Purge from the middle of the 1930s. They were developed at the Leningrad Factory of Experimental Mechanical Engineering (from 1935 known as the Factory No. The majority were armoured combat vehicles: flame tanks, artillery tractors, radio-controlled tanks ( teletanks), military engineering vehicles, self-propelled guns and armoured personnel carriers. More than 50 different modifications and experimental vehicles based on the T-26 light infantry tank chassis were developed in the USSR in the 1930s, with 23 modifications going into series production. ![]() TU-26 teletank control vehicle with a dummy flame-thrower to represent KhT-130 (OT-130) flame-throwing tank at Kubinka Tank Museum For the World War II fighter, see Sukhoi Su-5.
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