With its problems the T-34/76 was the king of the hill in the eastern front until Tiger tank ( and Panther and the long barrel Pz Iv )entered the scene as the PzIII-IV and other AT guns than 88 mm could not kill it except from the side.That is somewhere about spring-summer 1943, I think. By early 1944 the Russians had the T-34/85. As well I think they made some corrections with the cupola but I´m not sure about the number of men as the T-34 was made better in the later series.

The Russians had a model of T-34/76 with commander cupola but they did not have time to switch to this model in 1940 as the production was hurried.

Anyway if you think that the T-34/76 could be made ready in just about 24 hrs or less it was quite an amazing vehicle.Thinking about the working hours for German tanks...

[ 29. September 2003, 07:26 AM: Message edited by: Kai-Petri ]

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