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Uz Njemačkog tigra, T34 je vjerojatno napoznatiji tenk drugog svjetsog rata. Na osovi izuzetno dobrog dizajna koji je na pravi način balansirao oklop, brzinu, mobilnost i vatrenu moć slavu T34 u svijet iznjelo je 20 - 30 TISUĆA posada tog tenka. Radeći na ovom siteu prvo sam se pozabavio sa njemačkim oklopom, čudio sam se donekle brojevima od po 6000 proizvedenih Pz IV. U ovom trenu moram prezentirati prije danjeg objašnjavanja povjesti T34 tablicu s brojevima proizvedenih T34 tenkova. Radi usporedbe navedeni su i njmački tenkovi.

Pogledate tablicu i pomislite, ako se T34 mogao ikako mjeriti sa Pz III / IV (a mogao je i te kako) jasno je bilo da je '42 - '43 morao biti preokret u ratu. Proizvodnja tenkova smao je dobar pokazatelj industrijske proizvodnje koaj je nakon dubokog prodora Njemaca '41 morala biti premještena iza Urala i konačno je profunkcionirala.

Građen na bazi T-28 kojemu je poboljšavan ovjes, kupola i sl dizajnerski tim u "Komintern Tvornici,  Kharkov" vođen s inženjerom Tsiganovim iznjedrili su T34. Kasnijim poboljšavanjima stvoren je BT-IS. Prva serija je proizvedena u rujnu 1940. prije napada na SSSR nije proizvedeno dovoljno komada da bi se mogli ozbiljno sukobiti sa njemačkim tenkovima. Treba imati na umu i strahovite gubitke u tenkovima početkom operacije Barbarossa gdje je u bici za Minsk izgubljeno maltene 6000 tenkova.
T34 je bio poznat po fenomenalnoj konstrukciji kupole i 76,2mm topom sa velikom brzinom projektila koja je pretvorila T34 u strah i trepet njemačkim vojnicima.
Korištenjem dizel motora rizik da se tenk zapali je dosta smanjen (nafta se pali tek pod pritiskom, pogledajte malo info o diesel motorima), dobar (christie)  ovjes mu je dao brzinu veću od njemačkih konkurenata. Imao je široke gusjenice radi snjega ali i blata. Oko 2,800 ih je proizvedeno tokom 1941-ve. T34 je za svoju izgradnju trebao SAMO 40 sati, a i proizvodna mu je cijena konstantno smanjivana za vrijeme masovne proizvodnje (ne samo omasovljavanjem već i dizajnerskim inovacijama).

enough to keep the time-schedule. The cost per vehicle was lowered from 269.500 roubles in 1941, to 193.000 in 1942 and to 135.000 in 1943. A shortage of the new
V-12 diesel engines led to that some of the early T-34's had the older M-17 gasoline-engine (same as the BT and T-28 tanks used). A hastily laid demand for more
transmissions produced some serious problems; some early T-34s were very unreliable, and spare parts to repair the transmission were added to the side hull.



T-34/76 Model 1942 tanks of the 45. Tank Regiment, 8th Estonian Rifle Corps, May 1943.





A late production T-34/76 Model 1943 "Mstitiel" (Avenger) entering Sevastopol.
Photo provided by Nicholas Brooks.

Apart from the incredible losses of tanks in the 1941 campaigns (USSR lost 6.000 tanks only at the two battles at Minsk and Smolensk), the Russians lost all their
western industrial regions with its raw materials. The training of the crews was almost not anything, when drivers and mechanics sometimes only had 1˝ - 2 hours of
training before they was sent to operational units.
When Germany penetrated deeper into Russia, it became necessary to move or evacuate all factories all the way to the Urals and Siberia. After the evacuation, the
T-34 was built by Ural Tank Building Establishment (Uralmashzavod, UZTM), which was a combination of the Komintern Factory from Kharkov and the Nizhni-Tagil Tank
Plant.


Uralmashzavod vehicles - BT-7 Model 1937, A-20, T-34/76 Model 1940 and T-34/76 Model 1941.

Uralmashzavod did now produce the T-34 under the command of J.E.Maksarov, with A.Morozov as the Chiefengineer. In July 1942 the factory received the first
blueprints of the T-34, and the first production model from Uralmashzavod was called "Comrade Stalin". The T-34 came as a sad surprise to the Germans when they
encountered them in quantity in July 1941. (Even if the T-34 engaged the Germans for the first time on June 22nd at Grodno). When the Germans engaged them they
noticed that all their tanks had suddenly become obsolete and undergunned, for they were not a match to the T-34 either in speed, hitting power or protection. For
example, Dimitry Lavrynenko and his crew destroyed 52 German vehicles in the first months of the war. Lavrinenko was later killed in action in the Battle for Moscow in
late 1941. This new and dangerous tank, superior to any German vehicle, immediately led to the Germans speeding up the development of the heavy PzKpfw. VI
Tiger tank and the designwork of a medium tank with a similar design as the T-34, later to be known as the PzKpfw. V Panther, which owed its appearance and
features directly to the T-34.
There were many soviet tank crews, heroes of the Soviet Union who fought with T-34/76s, and it was also used by Polish, Czechoslovak and Yugoslav tank units. The
Germans were happy to issue as many captured T-34's to their units as possible, as well as Finnish, Hungarian and Rumanian armed forces.