Mystery Russian Tank

[Saxondog]

Can any one tell me what this is?

Russian ?

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[daisycutter]

t-35A a t-35 multi turret with conical type turrets replacing the older flat sided turrets to try and improve a very poor(yet very cool looking) combat vehicle

[Saxondog]

Thanks for the information,would you know if this was deployed in any strength or did someone figure out it was impractical? Sax

[grompix]

The T35 was certainly used in some numbers during the first part of operation Barbarossa. I think the 68th tank regiment operated 3 companies of them in June 1941. Very cool looking tanks (great for a scratch build project ) but they were thinly armoured and easily knocked out.
Another type of multi-turreted design used by the Russians was the slightly smaller T28.
Chris

[daisycutter]

t-28 was more sucsessful the t-35 was a real nice propaganda tank but outside that it was over-heavy,under armoured,over complex,under powered and slow still must have been something special to see this tank open fire with 7 mgs and 2 anti tank and 1 heavy gun

a real "landship" thats what makes the multi turrets so appealing

easiset multi turret for a scratchbuild would be the SMK prototype as it uses the same running gear as the kv series

[Saxondog]

Excellent guy's,my knowledge of Russian Armor is very limited.I am tying to learn more about the types and where used.Also why did we ship so many Sherman's to the Russians? I have not seen the numbers of T34'S OR Sherman's in Russian service,does anyone have a link?Saxondog