Variants of Soviet medium tank
T-34 variants |
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/T-34_prototypes.jpg/300px-T-34_prototypes.jpg) T-34 family portrait, 1941 ( BT-7, A-20, T-34 Models 1940 and 1941) |
Type | Medium tank |
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Place of origin | Soviet Union |
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In service | 1940–1970s (USSR) |
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Produced | 1940–1956 (USSR) |
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No. built | About 84,070 |
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The T-34 medium tank is one of the most-produced and longest-lived tanks of all time.
Identification of T-34 variants can be complicated. Turret castings, superficial details, and equipment differed between factories; new features were added in the middle of production runs, or retrofitted to older tanks; damaged tanks were rebuilt, sometimes with the addition of newer-model equipment and even new turrets.[1] Some tanks had appliqué armor made of scrap steel of varying thickness welded onto the hull and turret; these tanks are called s ekranami ("with screens"), although this was never an official designation for any T-34 variant.
- ^ Zaloga, Steven J. and James Grandsen. T-34 In Action. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-89747-112-1