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aecurtis Fezian13 Jul 2011 5:12 p.m. PST

You might ask punkscum to include such information in his new encyclopedic armor and "Russian" site:

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Sundance13 Jul 2011 6:10 p.m. PST

And I'll throw it on here too

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Mobius14 Jul 2011 5:51 a.m. PST

It doesn't seem to follow one rule. I have seen every T-28 Model 1937 with them. But, that T-26 is the only one I've seen with this.
It would certainly attract fire if only the HQ tank had these. Early war the Germans generally would go after the lead tanks in a group knowning these are the leaders.

emckinney14 Jul 2011 3:42 p.m. PST

Look on the "Blueprints" page of the section from your link: link

"Tank T-26-1 mod. 1940, equipped with radio transmitter. It has a sloping hull below the turret and a conical turret with punched gun mask, commander's "PTK" periscope and whip antenna.[1]"
--M. Kolomiets, M. Svirin,"T-26 Legkiy Tank" Frontovaya Illystratsiya, No. 1, 2003

"Tanks intended for company commanders were equipped with a radio set and a hand-rail radio antenna on the turret. Later the hand-rail antenna was replaced with a buggy-whip antenna, because the Spanish Civil War and Battle of Lake Khasan demonstrated that the hand-rail antenna unmasked commander tanks for enemy fire."

"After 1937, all tanks started to equip with a 71-TK-3 radio."
(They're talking about receivers only. Scale of deployment is a matter of debate.)

link (Says they were for the BTs, but link for example, shows the installation location in the turret bustle. Finnish experiences confirm this (http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/TANKS3.htm):

"Later T-26 tank models were sometimes equipped with radio, but these tanks were a minority of the manufactured tanks. The first radio that the Soviets used for equipping T-26 model 1933 tanks was 71-TK-1 and later production vehicles were equipped with 71-TK-3. … As mentioned in earlier with armoured cars and T-26E tanks, the Finnish experiences concerning captured 71-TK-1 and 71-TK-3 radios were not too positive. Before Continuation War these captured radios had been installed to T-26 tanks reserved for tank company and tank platoon commanders, but these radios proved unreliable. The original receiver used in them had a tendency of constantly more or less changing its frequency on its own, which made reception of radio transmissions uncertain."

Mobius14 Jul 2011 5:08 p.m. PST

In photos of a battle in June of 1941 I found 1 BT-7 with this rail radio antenna. There were over 20 BT-7 wrecks but only one with the antenna so it must have been the commander.

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