Light Tanks of the USSR in World War II: Unique modern and old world war technology [Kindle Edition]

Light Tanks of the USSR in World War II
Unique modern and old world war technology

This book is dedicated to the light tanks of the USSR, which took part in the Second World War. Here are their tactical and technical characteristics, and also describes the history of creating and upgrading models.

Content:

Tanks of the USSR before the Second World War
Small floating tank T-37A
Small floating tank T-38
Light tank T-18m
Light Tank T-26 (option with one tower)
Light Tank T-26 (option with two towers)
Light wheeled and tracked tank BT-2


This is a short version of the book, not all models of light tanks are represented here. For a more complete description, search in the extended edition.

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tanks of the USSR in the Second World War,
weapons of the USSR,
tanks of the Soviet Union during the war years

Tanks of the USSR before the Second World War

In this book we are talking about light tanks, but first we would like to make a brief overview of the armored forces of the USSR as a whole.

Before World War II, the USSR had the most powerful armored forces in the world. The Red Army was armed with 23,000 light, medium and heavy tanks, none of which had yet a single state, not counting the obsolete French heavy tanks. Also, the USSR had a huge fleet of floating tanks, which were also not found in any army in the world and already at that time there were about 1,500 new tanks KV-1, KV-2 and T-34, 90% of which were deployed on the western border. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, more than 3,300 tanks took part in the attack…..