![]() The new prototypes also went against other prevailing tank development thinking at the time. The A-20G, A-32 and A-34 full track prototypes that resulted in the production T-34 were developed from and in competition with combined wheel-track medium tank designs, the preferred direction for all but heavy tanks in the Soviet Union of the late 1930s. Produced at Plant №183 in Kharkov, the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (STZ) and at plants in Gorky, Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk and in other cities, the T-34 and later T-34-85 were produced in larger numbers than any other Soviet wartime tank design. The T-34 medium tank was the best known and most widely used Soviet tank of the Second World War. ![]() This book describes in detail the complex and nuanced development of what became the T-34, the conditions under which the tank was developed and tested, and how a few calm words by Stalin prevented the T-34, later the most famous Soviet tank of World War Two, from being terminated as a stillborn design during its development trials. ![]() This second volume describes the development and introduction of the T-34 tank. Blueprints, drawings, colour profiles and data tables are also provided with each volume, to describe the development and production variants of each vehicle. Each volume provide in-depth information, much of it entirely new to the western world, as well as a large number of photos, of which many have never been published to date. The Red Machines Series is entirely devoted to the hardware of the Red Army.
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