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| Tango01 | 01 Jul 2020 10:35 p.m. PST |
"The road to a new tank often goes through a number of intermediate prototypes. The Germans took this road to the Tiger and Panther, the American Pershing also evolved in a similar fashion. Soviet tank building also followed this road. For instance, the KV-13 tanks may not have gone into battle but they served as a foundation for the IS-2, the best Soviet tank of the war. The T-43 tank was also such an intermediate step. This interesting tank fell victim to trials that dragged on and a rapid increase in tactical-technical requirements in the second half of 1943. The T-43 program was contradictory from the start. This is generally linked with the fact that the GBTU changed its requirements for tanks several times in 1942-43. The T-43 started out as an ideological successor to the T-34M and turned into more of a heavy tank. At the very least, the T-34M 1942 tank and the KV-13 were built to the same technical requirements: a fast heavy tank with a mobility and mass of the T-34. A.A. Morozov, the chief engineer of factory #183, himself repeatedly compared the T-34M tank developed in 1942 and the T-43 that grew out of it to a heavy tank. However, the KV-13 quickly started moving towards a true heavyweight, while the T-43 increased in mass much slower, remaining close to the weight of the T-34…"
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