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10, 11 «Sherman» (M4 Sherman), the first and later modifications. The surname in the USSR «Emcea», because of «M4», the American army – «Lighter» («Cricket»), German – «Stove for Tommy.» Armament: 75—76 mm. gun, ammunition 97 shells, two 7, 62 mm., one anti-aircraft gun 12, 7 mm. machine gun. The English, who failed to persuade the Americans to release tanks with a licensed British gun, themselves converted a number of M4 into their long-barreled gun; turned out to be Sherman Firefly, «Firefly», capable almost on an equal footing to fight heavy German armored cars. Booking: the forehead of the hull is 51 mm., The board is 38 mm., The forehead of the tower is 76 mm., The side of the tower is 51 mm. Crew of 5 people. Speed on the highway 48 km. h, cross-country 40 km. h, power reserve along the highway 190 km. Specific power 13 hp tons of weight 30 tons. Large internal volume, good habitation, low noise, gun stabilizer, with excessively high profile and rather high specific pressure (0, 96 kg. Cm) on the ground. 49 thousand different modifications were made, in the USSR 3664 units were used, of which about 70 tanks took part in the battle on the Kursk Bulge.
12. T-6 «Tiger» (Panzerkampfwagen VI «Tiger»). Armament: 88 mm. gun with 94 shells, two or three 7, 92 mm. a machine gun, an anti-mortar mortar, a shell firing at a height of 5—7 meters above the tank, a mortar for setting up a smoke screen. Booking: the forehead of the body is 100 mm., The side of the body is 80 mm., The forehead of the tower is 100 mm., The side is 80 mm. The standard Soviet is 76 mm. The armor-piercing shell hits the T-6 in the side at a distance of 300 meters with a probability of 30%. Crew of 5 people. Weight 56 tons. Speed on the highway 40 km. h., Cross-country 20 km. h. Steering, 11 transmissions, for the first time – blowing the barrel after the shot. The power reserve for rough terrain is 110 km. (8—10 liters of fuel per kilometer). Ground pressure 1,03 kg. see, the specific power of the engine is 12 hp. (average value). In the Battle of the Kursk Bulge, 148 of these vehicles take part, at Prokhorovka – 43, from the spring of 1942 to May 1944, 1,394 tanks were produced. In exchange, at already half-bombed Henschel factories, assembly of 75-ton «Royal Tigers» begins. There is an opinion that, like the replacement of the Wehrmacht’s workhorse, the modernized T-4 with the Tiger, and the reorientation of production from the perfectly balanced T-6 to the Königstiger (Tiger-2), was for the German command a large (or even fatal) error.
13. «Mark 4», «Panzerkampfvagen IV», T-4 with anti-cumulative screens. Armament: 75 mm. gun with a caliber, depending on the modifications 24, 43, 48. Caliber – the ratio of the length of the barrel bore to its diameter, but more often this term is used as a synonym for the word «diameter» of the projectile. Ammunition of 87 shots. Two 7.92 mm. MG-34 machine gun. Booking: the forehead of the body 80 mm., The board 30 mm., The forehead of the tower 50 mm., The board 30 mm. The tanks of the first issues had 30 mm. frontal, 20 mm. side armor, after the Polish campaign came out on respectively, 50 mm. and 30 mm. The last 3,500 tanks (from April 1943) received the protection characteristics already presented. Crew of 5 people. Speed along the highway is 30 km. h., the road – 17 km. h. The range of travel along the highway is 150—200 km. Weight 22,5—26 tons. The specific power of the engine is 13.6 hp. The pressure on the ground is 0.69—0.79 kg. From 1936 to 1945, 8686 units were produced (Panzerwaffe’s most massive tank). Operated in many countries around the world, including, among other things, Israel, until the 1970s.
14. T-5, «Panther» (Panzerkampfwagen V Panther). According to the German classification – the average, all other systematizations – a heavy tank. Armament: long-barreled 75 mm. gun, 81 shot, two 7.92 mm. MG-42 machine gun, and also 56 mm. melee melee. Booking: the forehead of the body is 60—80 mm., The side is 40—50 mm., The forehead of the tower is 110 mm., The side is 45 mm. Weight 45 tons. Since November 1944, the T-5 is equipped with night vision devices. Crew of 5 people. Speed on the highway 46 km. h., a lane 25—30 km. h. The cruising range along the highway is 250 km. Specific power 15.6 hp, ground pressure 0.88 kg. see In the Soviet troops fought two companies (that is, about 30) captured «Panther», the tankmen noted excellent front protection, first-class guns, at the same time relatively low driving performance, the complexity of maintenance, fragile and vulnerable airborne armor. From the spring of 1943 to 1945, 5,976 pieces were produced.
15. SAU «Ferdinand» (on behalf of the designer, F. Porsche, or Elefant – Elephant). Armament: long barrel 88 mm. gun, 55 rounds, in late versions – in addition, the exchange rate of 7.92 mm. MG-34 machine gun. The forehead of the body is 200 mm., The board is 60—80 mm., The forehead is 200 mm., The board is 80 mm. Weight 65 tons. Crew of 6 people: mechanic and radio operator ahead, separately, 4 people in the fighting compartment (cabin). Speed on the highway 25 km. h, a country road 5—10 km. h. Cruising along the highway 150 km., cross-country 90 km. Specific power 8.2 hp, pressure on the ground 1.2 kg. see Horizontal angle ± 26º. The main losses are from anti-tank mines and the destruction of the undercarriage during intensive firing, despite the fact that it is difficult to evacuate a heavy armored vehicle from the battlefield. There were no failures of Elefant on the forehead, however, the SU-152 high-explosive shells disabled the crew and technical units even without breaking through the armor. In 1943 92 FAU «Ferdinand» were manufactured on the chassis of F. Porsche, who did not go into the series of the «Tiger» version. Half of them remained under Kursk; according to the German General Walter Wenck, this is the average percentage of losses for all sides of the battle.
16. T-3, Panzer III. Armament, depending on the modifications – 37 mm., 50 mm. (since 1941), 75 mm. gun, with ammunition, respectively, 150, 84, 56 shells, as well as three 7.92 mm. MG-34 machine gun. Booking: the forehead, the side of the hull is 30 mm., The forehead, the side of the tower is 30 mm. Weight 19.5 tons. Crew of 5 people. Speed on the highway 65 km. h, cross-country 15 km. h. The power reserve along the highway is 195 km., the road is 95 km. Specific power 14 hp The specific pressure on the soil is 0.9 kg. see Parameters approximately correspond to the Soviet T-26 tank. From 1939 to 1943, 5,865 units were produced.
17. T-2 (Panzerkampfwagen II). Armament – 20 mm. automatic cannon, with shops of 10 rounds, 120—320 shells, (armor piercing with a tungsten carbide blanket 40 mm from 100 meters, 20 mm from 500 meters) one 7, 92 mm. machine gun. Booking – forehead, side of the body 14.5 mm., Forehead, side of the tower 14, 5 mm. The crew is three people. Speed on the highway 40 km. h. Cruising along the highway 190 km, cross-country 125 km. Specific power 15.7 hp, ground pressure 0, 62 kg. see Weight 9 tons. As the development of the T-2 was released 130 reconnaissance tanks «Lynx». In total from 1936 to 1943, 2000 Pz.Kpfw was produced. II.
18. Self-propelled artillery installation StuG III, «Sturmgeshyutts-3», otherwise «Art-Sturm». Armament: 75 mm gun, 54 rounds, horizontal angle of ± 12°(the gun is not fixed strictly in the vertical plane, as it seems), MG-34 machine gun from the commander’s turret. Booking: the forehead of the case 50 mm., Plus, fixed on bolts of 30 mm. armor plate (usually flew after hit the projectile), board 30 mm. Chamfer forehead: 50 mm. and 30 mm. plate, board 30 mm. Weight 23 tons. Crew of 4 people. Speed on the highway 40 km. h, cross-country 12—15 km. h. The power reserve, respectively, is 165 km. and 95 km. Specific power 13 hp, ground pressure 0, 94 kg. cm. From 1940 to 1945, 9,346 units were produced (the most massive Wehrmacht armored vehicle).
It is widely believed that the cessation of Operation Citadel was facilitated by the landing of the Allies in Sicily, for the battle against which considerable armored forces of the Wehrmacht were transferred to Italy, including the remains of the elite 2nd SS Panzer Corps. Indeed, some «politically reliable» units went there as if to «rest», but without heavy equipment, except for the unit of the 11 SAU Ferdinand, which in the rear were fitted with a machine gun in the rear. … For one reason or another (a game of intelligence, intricate diplomacy, or whatever, the Hitler command sends