Tango01  | 26 Apr 2013 8:47 p.m. PST |
A Soviet T55 chassis with a giant telescope?
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minstralmodel.blogspot.com.ar Anyone can give some data of this vehicle? Thanks in advance for your guidance. Amicalement
Armand |
| Paint it Pink | 27 Apr 2013 2:12 a.m. PST |
Looking at this vehicle I would judge it to be a beach recovery vehicle designed to retrieve stuck AFVs that have been stranded underwater. Judging by the height of the air and exhaust pipes the Soviets were prepared to retrieve units in quite deep water. |
| Brian Bronson | 27 Apr 2013 3:35 a.m. PST |
It's a mobile oil refinery developed in early 1942 when Stalin was concerned that the Germans were going to capture the Caucasas oil fields. Or, it could be a deep water recovery vehicle. |
| Redroom | 27 Apr 2013 5:30 a.m. PST |
it would possibly work against polar bears |
| Maddaz111 | 27 Apr 2013 6:24 a.m. PST |
no idea? guessing from the photo some sort of marine engineering unit (cog and anchor marking?) But the model and the photo are very different … The portholes (with very thick glass suggest a use below water) some sort of claustrophobia escape test ? or testing new periscope equipment, or even some sort of rig for seabed/lakebed clearance? |
| Tango01 | 27 Apr 2013 8:17 a.m. PST |
Many thanks for your comments guys.
Cannot found the "history" of this model.
Did it be used at WW2?
so many questions.(smile). Amicalement
Armand |
 Dentatus   | 27 Apr 2013 8:55 a.m. PST |
DA! In Motherland, even our submarines are tanks. |
| Dentatus | 27 Apr 2013 8:56 a.m. PST |
"Yuri, why did you tie bedroll 'outside' again?" |
| Coelacanth | 27 Apr 2013 9:47 a.m. PST |
I'm guessing that it will be "fun" to be up on the flying bridge when this thing rolls over an incline. Many thanks, Armand! Ron |
| chriskrum | 27 Apr 2013 1:49 p.m. PST |
Underwater engineering support for divers? Tanks for cutting torches and other gasses on the front? The photo of the actual vehicle appears to have more portholes than the model version (including some on the front). Maybe it was used to recover wrecked ships, etc.? Just guessing, doesn't seem to be anything online. |
| Mapleleaf | 27 Apr 2013 7:49 p.m. PST |
BTS-4(Bronetankoviy Tyagach Sredniy – Medium Armoured Tractor) – ARV similar to the BTS-2 but equipped with a snorkel. In the West it is known as T-54T. There are many different models, based on theT-44, T-54, T-55 and T-62TS-4
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| Tango01 | 27 Apr 2013 10:18 p.m. PST |
Many thanks my friend Mapleleaf!. Amicalement
Armand |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 27 Apr 2013 10:34 p.m. PST |
That is truly wild. Thanks Armand. |
