Kubinka Tank Museum - Russian Tanks

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In this episode from Tac TV Season 3, Larry heads to the Kubinka Tank Museum, about an hour outside of Moscow. He takes the opportunity to look at a wide variety of tanks including the T34, T54, the T64, and T72 among other Russian WWII Tanks.

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[troy]

Some years ago i heard a tank story. When the Germans had destroyed or captured some T-34's, their engineers and designers of course loojed them over. They were laughing at crude welds, average assembly quality, etc. When they got to the turret traversing mechanism they stopped laughing. It was finely machined, highly polished, and smooth. It gave a faster traverse speed to the turret than any German tanks had, which was an advantage. The Russians knew to save their best efforts for where they will do the most good. An ugly weld is of no consequence. A faster, better turret mechanism is. That makes sense and would fit in with Russian design philosophy.

[alekxu]

0:26 Flower and ribbon. After 70 years people still commemorate the fallen heroes as if it was yesterday. Respect.

[crazytaco]

an important part of that evolution of tanks that wasnt there, was the T-44. Near the end of the war, the soviets decided that the armour of the T-34 was not enough, so they came up with a new chassis and a relatively same 85 turret, it never saw combat since it late introduction in the war but was a great tank nonetheless. From this tank the
Soviets decided that it needed to be up gunned and have a new turret put on it, thus gave birth to the T-54 prototype. it is hard to see the evolution of the T-34 to T-54 without this link.

[MaxiosMB]

A very "squat" profile, 100% slavic tank

[jwilli]

Wish this had been longer! So many rare and unusual tanks there.

[ThArtyZFactablMan]

T-64 evolved into T-80 and T-72 evolved into T-90

[ПолковникЗайцын]

First one is not T34/76, it's an 1942 rare variant with new cast turret and inclision of the fifth crue member.

[thenoobdestroyer]

very well done on not mentioning any of the early soviet era tanks they have there T10 hell even the IS7

[TedFanat]

Why you wasn't show any russian heavy tank, like a KV or JS ? On my opinion JS-3, JS-7 was a best heawy tanks in 1945-1955

[xBookkeeper]

Cost of tanks in USSR rubles and dates:
T-64 230880 (1966);
- tanks without ATGM:
T-64A 249033 (first verison 1967 upgraded several times in 1969, 1972, 1975 and 1981);
T-72A 337247 (1978) equivalent to late 1981 T-64A;
(late T-64A has same FCS as T-72A, TPD-K1)
- tanks with ATGM:
T-64B 512737 (first version in 1975 upgraded in 1981);
T-64BV 536028 (1985);
T-72B 421200 (1985);
T-80B 826800 (1978).
T-64B and T-80B have identical turrets, with only differences in stowage layout and cupola (T-80B has cheaper(!) unpowered cupola, T-64B has powered cupola with AA sight). T-80B is nearly twice as expensive. (thanks to expensive hull with turbine), as for T-72B, it has drastically lower-quality FCS compared to T-64B. T-64B has 1G42 optics which are fully stabilized, has variable magnification between 4x-9x, missile guidance built into the main sight, has wind sensor, cant sensor, dynamic lead. Autoloader "МЗ"(MR) in T-64B is also superior to T-72B having an option for rotating both directions, loading faster, and holding 28 instead of 22 rounds as in "АЗ"(AR) for T-72B. Missile of T-72B is inferior as well. "Svir" only has a range of 4000m, while "Refleks" has a range of 5000m.

[AlienPball]

Ugh I hated going inside the T-80 when I was doing my time, so cramped and bugger all headroom.

[freundschaft]

Wish you showed us the Soivet heavies like the IS-4, still thanks for the video

[ShawarmaFarmer]

Guess that explains why ammo was stored in the turret and why so many have become victims of the jack in the box effect during the wars. Nice bore evacuator on the T-54 tho

[badrolix]

Thank you for this video! 
Но хотелось бы более длинного и подробного сюжета. 
Лайк с меня!

[rollingo]

You’ll actually find most of those at bovington tank museum too

[hanifloka]

Was expecting him to show us the IS series and Obj Series.

[AudieHolland]

A major flaw in the very low silhouette for the T-62 and previous versions that were built according to the same specifications: the traverse of the gun wasn't great and when it had to fight in hilly terrain (for which it wasn't designed, Western Europe is mainly plains and very gentle hills), it was picked off with relative ease by older type American tanks used by the Israelis during the Six Day War. Because the Israëlis could hide most of their tanks behind a hill, with only the well traversable gun sticking out from over the hill top. An Israëli tank in such a position could 'peek' over a hill while hiding most of its body behind the hill. Downward traverse of the gun was vital. Soviet built tanks used by the Egyptians didn't have that great of a gun traverse so they had to move their tanks beyond the top of the hill, exposing most of its body. Tanks that were designed to play a deadly and fast game of 'kill more of them than they can kill yours' were now engaged in a deadly cat and mouse game with very little movement. On the other hand, I admire how the Russians, ever since the T-34, have kept their tanks relatively light and maneuverable. Overall weight is always under or around 45 tons. The American M-1 Abrams in all its variants weighs from about 60 - 70 tons. Not unlike the German Tiger II or "Kingtiger." Not only do tanks have to be able to maneuver on the battlefield, they must always be ready to be shipped by train and over things like bridges. Russian tanks have no problems there. Tanks that are around 70 tons however can't be shipped over most bridges because those bridges can't support their weight. Which is why American M-1 tanks based in Germany had to be shipped to German northern seaports from which they were actually transported by ship around the North Sea, all the way south around Spain and Portugal.

[timdeboer]

Starts off competely wrong, the germans knew about the t34 and the kv1. They had a combined tank research effort. The germans chose not use sloped armour at first because of the extra space it takes. But they were well aware of its existence. Hilary Doyle talked about this.

[darkostanisavljevic]

Vickers became an expert in tanks suddenly lol

[zachp]

it would have been nice to see the KVs and IS'.