I saw an interview with a guy who owned a T-34. The interviewer said that he'd heard a story that Russian tank drivers kept a hammer in the driving position because sometimes they'd need it to pound the transmission into gear, and asked the guy who owned the T-34 if it was true. The guy who owned the tank just smiled, reached down and pulled out a hammer.
@@dukeoftoast2420 Either that or an unwilling terrified soviet era red army slave. Hammering a transmission and dodging fire from superior enemy tanks. Is preferable to the alternative death sentence if one complained. The lucky ones spent the rest of their very short lives in Siberian labour camps. Lets be honest about this. The T34 reflected the inherent problems of the soviet marxist ideology that produced it. GIGI - garbage in, garbage out!
@@zsoltlehoczki4783 first of all, All of those were post ww2 Czech built T-34s, and Laos isn't in Africa. I was referring to the fact that this appears to be a 1941 T-34/75, from 1941, aka, "the first-ish model they built"
Look how beautiful this T-34/76 B (as the Germans called her) is. This is a beautiful Russian T-34, and the smaller turret makes for a smaller target. I don't know why they changed her to the hard edge turret in late '42. They shouldn't have.
@@rodhayes7777 The later was easier to produce and crew had slightly more space inside. The Sovjets didnt build for beauty. they build cheap, rough and as fast as possible with low regards to how the tank would last or be to operate or survivability for the crew as they had very low survival rate anyways.
I visited you all back in 2016 and was impressed by your collection. Really want to get back to see how you've expanded! The old T34-76 is one of my favorite tanks aesthetically despite its major drawbacks, so really excited to see it!
Is rainik, Comrade. A 76 mm model. Sweet. Russia had lent one to The War Memorial, Canberra, some years ago, the Russian Ambassador declared it most rare vehicle, because only 85 mm survive. Even recent Russian Parades feature 85mm. Well done getting this excellent early model, obviously complete, for presentation. The AAAM is quickly becoming an Australian Icon. Respect. Cheers.
That’s actually just how early T-34s look up close, they use cast armor. This look is exactly why a lot of Germans laughed them off as crude pot metal tanks when they first started encountering them. Even a lot of T-34-85s have the same appearance of the metal.
The soviets were crude but the gun breachs were milled the Soviets scrapped most of there early war equipment after the war so most t34 76s are either Finnish captures or ones that fell in the drink during river crossings
Ya its been in a bog, the gun breach is the give away, heavy pitting, the soviet milling was crude but thats clearly pitted or the hatch was open to the elements over the years
Wow, great video! Your T-34 is in great shape for it's 82 years! Very tiny inside spaces! So the story is that every tank plant(T-34) made their tank a little bit different than all the other plants during the war(but they still out produced the enemy forces!). I guess there is a plant stamp/plate on the hull and/or turret somewhere!? Thanks again!
The legendary T-34 still paticipates in Red Square Victory Day Parades...The engine itself is a testament to Soviet Era mechanical & materials engineering...
They often broke down, they had huge amounts of oil leaks, they ran on diesel which couldnt start in the 1940's during hard frost as you didnt have the tech yet, so had to warm the engines hours before combat. Welds were crude and often cracking, steel was sub par quality and would often spall on non-penetrating hits from 37mm and 50mm German guns. But yes it was simple and requires simple repairs. So if they managed to survive the horrible tank losses of the Sovjets, it was easy to maintain and seeing as the oversized diesel engine can run for periods without lubrican ts etc, you get these "we fished a t34 out of a swamp after 75 years and it runs with a new battery"- videos. Then again, find any 80 year old diesel engine of compareable size, and it's easy to restore. Wont run well, will leak like mad, destroy gears and intoxicate anyone in the vehicle with fumes. but yes it will run 🙂
With the patriotic Russian music playing as your T-34 cranked-up and clanked into the museum was one of your best video introductions! Well done! 👍😊 It gave me goosebumps and I'm not even Russian.
Thanks for the correction, and my apologies for misidentifying the music's national origin. Regardless, it was an excellent selection to accompany that old warhorse as it made its grand entrance.@@news_internationale2035
I love that Russian tank. The T-34/76 B (1941) was awesome. It was the first really dangerous T-34 (the 1940 T-34 wasn't that good) that in my opinion was a game changer. It gave the Wehrrnacht many headaches.
There were also issues with M4 Sherman when it arrives to USSR in 42/43 (the M4 was fantastic tank tbh), even with those it was better than most Pz. III and IV at that time. Most of the german engines during the war the Maybach HL 120, 210 and 230 werent that reliable compared to the soviet engines nor US used in their tanks.
Thanks. Nice to see those two side by side. Both were pretty good basic designs for their day but were hurting in a number of areas that made a lot of difference. The Russians could build things like tanks and planes well - but things like electronics and optics they just weren't that good at. My understanding - is that they had Radios on the Company Level but these were Receivers only - so the Battalion Commander could issue orders to his Companies - but they could not speak back to him - and he had no way to speak to the tanks in his company (10 tanks in 3, 3 tank platoons plus the CO). They used signal flags and other hand signals. This meant that if a T-34 saw something - it had a good deal of difficulty passing that information on. The Germans with Transceivers in all their tanks could operate much more fluidly and pass information about readily. That made a tremendous difference. Their optics were really bad - which made it hard for the gunners to sight in on a target - which made it that much harder to get a hit. The Germans had the best optics of the war - so - they had a much better chance of getting a hit at longer ranges. There were a number of Nations that had 2 man turrets at the beginning of the war. Most if not all the French Turrets were two man Turrets - which left the Tank Commander or gunner doing multiple duties. Having a 3 man turret on the Mark III's and IV's was one of the German tankers main advantages early on. The German's hull designs weren't that good, their guns weren't that big but they all had radios and 3 man turrets - so they were much more flexible and responsive - while their optics let them be much more accurate with the guns they did have. .
Clutches are nice as long as you don't slip them for too long. Steel discs warp and do not disengage properly anymore, if they get hot. After that it's hard to get the gears to engage. Most probably the cause of countless transmission problems these had during the war.
American reports also mentions 'for unknown reasons Russians did not use synchromesh'. Soviets had similar feelings, sometimes they fitted Studebaker's gearbox somehow.
A great deal of gratitude is owed to the Soviet people and these tanks for their valor in ww2. If not for those brave people we would probably all be speaking german.
The early design and manufacture of the T-34 should be considered in the context of the USSR's situation at the time which was in great contrast to the US's. While the US could take it's time with extensive testing and modifications the USSR had no such luxury.
..while true, Russia has never really very lucky in being able to maintain an industrial quality to any high level or long, ..always it has just about skims past onwards with the barest minimum, certainly during and after the Soviet era, whilst forcefully marketing the conceptual ideas & lies around of what it wanted, as real truths, But, the bear, the mob of the people & it's regimes, have nearly always been lying,, and usually afraid of.. truth, reality, honesty, good/uncorrupted people, whom want something better & more than what 'it' [Russia] is to those whom rule it..
The early designed should be considered as the invulnerable but blind tank, the Germans were shocked by, deflecting all shots from cannons available by 1941, but hated by Germans when they used the captured ones. Otherwise, the worst quality T-34s came later on, up 93% of production considered faulty and unable to fight. Yet, the general design proved pretty good, T-34/85 being a good combat machine even after WWII. The main issue remained however; for unknown reasons, Soviets never implemented synchromesh gearbox although techically they should have been able from the very beginning. During WWII some T-34s were actually fitted with Lend-Lease Studebaker's gearbox which mitigated this issue.
@@piotrmalewski8178был в этом умышленный расчёт - делать хорошую коробку дорого и сложно в условиях дефицита оборудования и кадров, эта работает как-то и ладно, танков много, задавим количеством, а не качеством. Поэтому кувалдой переключали передачу или ехали на 1 передаче и перегревали мотор.
The contrast is actually reversed - US has only just laid out specifications for Sherman when when russians were already planning the T-34M upgrade with a hexagonal 3-man turret (like the 85), torsion bar suspension and even more front armor but that was scrapped by the barbarossa. If soviets could afford to switch production on a whim they'd be rolling into berlin on T-44, maybe even with the 100mm gun, and this is basically a spaceship by WW2 standards.
0 respect for historic machines. Also, just how incredibly moronic is it to expect someone to use the main armament of a freaking WW2 AFV ?! Where tf is one supposed to find 76mm rounds to feed the F-34 ?! Let's ruin a living piece of history just cause big scary gun ! Govt logic...
@@koskok2965 Indeed. You can't get shells even in Russia in the first place. Plus, really... If you own a medium tank, the cannon is the least of concerns for public health and safety...
@@piotrmalewski8178 Yep. People smacking into tens of thousands of kilograms of pure steel while speeding inside their tin can would worry me a lot more.
Did you guys know , that there is a 1952 centurion on display , on the Dukes Hwy in the middle of Keith SA . It is in a fully wired on all sides and with a roof , display type shed . It looks to be totally complete . Hope next time you get down that way you get a chance to take a look for yourselves.
My favorite WW2 tank after the Tiger 1 is the T-34. I think they are a great looking tank. I aim for trap points on tanks in WOT-B. Those T-34,s were so cramped that they couldn't fit a commander and gunner so the commander was the gunner. I have heard that they had to elevate the barrel to be able to reload. Cheers Guys! Great work once again.
Lovely stuff, no complaints on the video itself, but could *some* tank channel *somewhere* *please* do a short video *showing* how the T-34 and T-55 track pins work with the "slap 'em back into place" ramps? I realize that the pins are *probably* tapered with the thick end on the inboard side of the track, but never when I have I see the ramp mentioned has this been made explicit. I'm also curious about how the pins are manufactured; casting makes sense to create a tapered shape with minimal machining, but I'd have thought forging would've been the more widespread (and thus economical) option for the USSR, at least pre- and early-war. Keep up the good content!
Throughout 1941-42 the soviet industry installed radios in "one from N tanks built". Usually it was aimed to have one radio in a tank company (in a company commander's tank), and the others were supposed to behave according to the plan. During 1942 a radio equipped tanks ratio was constantly increasing (except for stalingrad factories, but those tanks have been used exclusively in stalingrad campaign), until somewhere in the first half of 1943 all produced tanks finally got their radios
One other noticable difference between the 1940 and 1941 model T-34 besides the barrel length of the 76mm gun, was the driver's vision port. The original model had only 1 in center of the hatch, whereas this has 2 and can be closed shut if desired.
Holy Molly, a T34-76mm ! Does it run still ? All I ever see is T34-85s built after the war that were actually built with the proper bolts and somewhat correctly. 😆
@@Conserpov I highly doubt the latest iPhone has anything in common with the first one! Whereas they all share the same engine block. Any anyway, why do you assume I was being negative? The fact that the same basic design has been in service for so long shows what a good job they did in the first place!
Did you see the totally knackered T34 engine which still ran on Mr Hewes channel? Rear main cap fractured, bolts sheared & lying in the sump. You could move the clutch end of the crank up & down about 1/2" !
Just curious how ownership changes for example isnt this soviet property originally so do they sell them or was it ok to just take them from the battle field and keep them
Видно что это старая версия Т-34 ( ее называют Т-34/76 с 76 мм пушкой) Вообще их было несколько исполнений, в зависимости от завода на котором их производили. Отличаются эти варианты формой башни. Я в таких нюансах не разбираюсь. Но это точно вариант до 1944 года выпуска. Потому что начиная с середины 1943 года начали производить вариант с 85 мм пушкой ( обычно обозначают как Т-34/85). Насчет жеской коробки передач на ранних версиях- это правда. Но про молоток - не правда;) рычаг переключали пинком ноги ;)
It was crude. This even seems to be a somewhat nice example because I have seen worse examples on photo's. Same for photo's of T-34s where there are clear gaps between the armour plates. On top the Soviets used high hardness armour for the T-34. It was more effective against uncapped AP rounds used by armies all over the world, in the years before and during early WW2. But non penetrating hits could very well lead to bits of metal on the back of the plate from breaking off and going through the tank. But the bigger issue was that the Germans very quickly started fielding their excellent Pz.Gr.39 APCBC projectiles with very hard caps. Those negated the advantage of the harder armour and arguably turned it into a disadvantage because such hard plates tend to not resist these type of projectiles well. It wasn't only a Soviet issue either. The British for example also struggled with the same issue, but they quickly rectified it during WW2. Later on, the Germans also experienced problems because they started running out of alloys and constantly needed to create new steel formulas for armour plates. There seems to have been a period (1943) where they had clear issues. But later on it seems to have gotten far less problematic again. The Germans do seem to have sacrificed some of their protective capabilities by making their medium hardness armour, a bit less hard. That reduced spalling, but also reduced stopping power a bit. The Americans meanwhile kept improving their armour plates over the course of the war, steadily getting harder but they don't seem to have suffered much from spalling. Late war the Germans, Americans and British where very much converged to medium hardness armour of around 250-300BHN that could resist shell impacts without spalling that much. Post war the Soviets also started using such plating on tanks like T-54.
the tank s paint almost looks like bess brown. is it? or is it an od. the camera gives a strange shade of color like the thumb nail is clearing green but on the trailer and driving in the building look brown..
He estado en Bovington y Saumur pero por lo visto, la colección que ustedes tienen no tiene nada que envidiar. En qué parte de Australia están ubicados?. Aún no planeo mis próximas vacaciones :-). Saludos desde Chile
Some stupid government bureaucrat with a gun control mindset thinks it's a good idea to vandalize historical war machines that haven't fired their guns in decades.
During the Soviet Union times when they were using T series tanks (T55 and T72 for example) Their turrets were extremely cramped so they had a height cut off around 5’6 or something T34s had whoever they could get to crew them though
Yes, it's such a shame that museums have to "demilitarize" the main guns of these historical artifacts. It's unlikely someone is ever going to break into the museum with a combat load of Russian 76mm tank shells and go on a shooting spree. Last summer, I watched a video of some Russians trying to restart the engine of a SU-152 that had been abandoned in a field for years in their small town. Just as they finally got it running, a guy with an acetylene torch showed up and burned a large, jagged hole into the main gun's barrel. Stupid demilitarization policies don't appear to be limited to just the US and Australia.
Ужасающая комплектация представленного образца Т-34: - антенна от поздних послевоенных советских бронемашин - Р-123; - радиостанция тоже от послевленной советской тхники и установлена в бортовом спосоне не верно (должна быть перед правым сиденьем экипажа ниже установки курсоврго пулемета ДТ); - пулемет ДТ в курсовой шаровой установке размещен не верно (должен стволом сверху, а у вас - газоотвод сверху почему-то); - в боевом отделении нет бортовых топливных баков и листов металла, их закрывающих; - внешние топливные баки цилиндрической формы не использовались на машинах вплоть до 1943 года. Если хотели поставить внешние топливные баки, то нужны коробчатой формы на верхнем кормовом бронелисте; - слева от фары на лобовом верхнем бронелисте установлен звуковой сигнал, который у Т-34 для обозначенного периода должен распологаться внутри бронекорпуса; - звуковой сигнал от помлевоенной ьронетехгики - модель С-58; И так далее и тому подобное... Модель танка не верно отнесена к модели 1941 года (внешние топливные баки, траки и т.д. от поздних машин). В общем, вышел красивый, но Франкенштейн
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I saw an interview with a guy who owned a T-34.
The interviewer said that he'd heard a story that Russian tank drivers kept a hammer in the driving position because sometimes they'd need it to pound the transmission into gear, and asked the guy who owned the T-34 if it was true.
The guy who owned the tank just smiled, reached down and pulled out a hammer.
Several people who have driven T-34's have explained you have to be a "super human" to sometimes drive a T-34.
@@dukeoftoast2420 Either that or an unwilling terrified soviet era red army slave. Hammering a transmission and dodging fire from superior enemy tanks. Is preferable to the alternative death sentence if one complained. The lucky ones spent the rest of their very short lives in Siberian labour camps.
Lets be honest about this. The T34 reflected the inherent problems of the soviet marxist ideology that produced it. GIGI - garbage in, garbage out!
@@dukeoftoast2420To change gears more specifically
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Интересно, куда нужно отправить стрелка-радиста, чтобы размахнуться молотом внутри танка?
The truck driver that delivered that tank is a mate of mine and an ex army tank recovery mechanic and a very good one at that
Outstanding vehicle review by Jason. Please continue to make these type of videos.
There can't be too many of these left in the world, astonishing and awesome that you guys have aquired one
The russians bought multiple pieces running T-34 from Africa.
@@zsoltlehoczki4783 first of all, All of those were post ww2 Czech built T-34s, and Laos isn't in Africa. I was referring to the fact that this appears to be a 1941 T-34/75, from 1941, aka, "the first-ish model they built"
@@zsoltlehoczki4783 Some countries in Africa still operate the T-34-85.
They have found some early models like this in rivers in Poland and Russia .Very lucky to have one as they were almost non existant 10 years ago
Finally! The first video on youtube that shows the inside of the early T34 turret!
Вот оно величие советского народа!
Kharkiv, Ukraine
@@sherlok901 While the head of the bureau was a guy from Yaroslavl, Russia. And he worked in Leningrad before he got to Kharkov. Sherlock, lmao.
Thanks Jason, a great review. Having two versions is a great opportunity to see the progression.
Finally finally somebody who goes inside the T-34/76.
Too many T34/85 videos.
I was starting to think it was illegal to go inside the former
Look how beautiful this T-34/76 B (as the Germans called her) is. This is a beautiful Russian T-34, and the smaller turret makes for a smaller target. I don't know why they changed her to the hard edge turret in late '42. They shouldn't have.
@@rodhayes7777 The later was easier to produce and crew had slightly more space inside. The Sovjets didnt build for beauty. they build cheap, rough and as fast as possible with low regards to how the tank would last or be to operate or survivability for the crew as they had very low survival rate anyways.
Erstaunlich restaurierte Fahrzeuge Der Zustand des T34 ist hervorragend und der wenige Platz im Innenraum ist sehr gut dargestellt Super Museum
So beautiful, one of my all time faves 🇷🇺 along with centurion 🇬🇧 and Sherman /Grant 🇺🇸 🤠🤟 and panther 🇩🇪 ✌🤠🇬🇧🙏🇦🇺 🦘🦘
I visited you all back in 2016 and was impressed by your collection. Really want to get back to see how you've expanded! The old T34-76 is one of my favorite tanks aesthetically despite its major drawbacks, so really excited to see it!
Is rainik, Comrade. A 76 mm model. Sweet. Russia had lent one to The War Memorial, Canberra, some years ago, the Russian Ambassador declared it most rare vehicle, because only 85 mm survive. Even recent Russian Parades feature 85mm. Well done getting this excellent early model, obviously complete, for presentation. The AAAM is quickly becoming an Australian Icon. Respect. Cheers.
The 1941 model must be super rare. How much of your vehicle’s history do you know? It looks like it’s been underwater?
Why did you vote brexitd
@@abaialsa712nothing to do with video or comment. Irrelevant.
That’s actually just how early T-34s look up close, they use cast armor. This look is exactly why a lot of Germans laughed them off as crude pot metal tanks when they first started encountering them. Even a lot of T-34-85s have the same appearance of the metal.
The soviets were crude but the gun breachs were milled the Soviets scrapped most of there early war equipment after the war so most t34 76s are either Finnish captures or ones that fell in the drink during river crossings
Ya its been in a bog, the gun breach is the give away, heavy pitting, the soviet milling was crude but thats clearly pitted or the hatch was open to the elements over the years
What a magificent restoration job! Great commentary too thanks Jason! 😃👍
Wow, great video! Your T-34 is in great shape for it's 82 years! Very tiny inside spaces! So the story is that every tank plant(T-34) made their tank a little bit different than all the other plants during the war(but they still out produced the enemy forces!). I guess there is a plant stamp/plate on the hull and/or turret somewhere!? Thanks again!
So much for interchangeability of parts…US combat repair units were super efficient on the Western Front.
Absolutely love a surprise AAAM post.
The legendary T-34 still paticipates in Red Square Victory Day Parades...The engine itself is a testament to Soviet Era mechanical & materials engineering...
They often broke down, they had huge amounts of oil leaks, they ran on diesel which couldnt start in the 1940's during hard frost as you didnt have the tech yet, so had to warm the engines hours before combat. Welds were crude and often cracking, steel was sub par quality and would often spall on non-penetrating hits from 37mm and 50mm German guns. But yes it was simple and requires simple repairs. So if they managed to survive the horrible tank losses of the Sovjets, it was easy to maintain and seeing as the oversized diesel engine can run for periods without lubrican ts etc, you get these "we fished a t34 out of a swamp after 75 years and it runs with a new battery"- videos. Then again, find any 80 year old diesel engine of compareable size, and it's easy to restore. Wont run well, will leak like mad, destroy gears and intoxicate anyone in the vehicle with fumes. but yes it will run 🙂
0:36-0:46 - Nice sound sample of the track pin adjusters working.
With the patriotic Russian music playing as your T-34 cranked-up and clanked into the museum was one of your best video introductions! Well done! 👍😊 It gave me goosebumps and I'm not even Russian.
That's patriotic Ukrainian music.
Thanks for the correction, and my apologies for misidentifying the music's national origin. Regardless, it was an excellent selection to accompany that old warhorse as it made its grand entrance.@@news_internationale2035
I love that Russian tank. The T-34/76 B (1941) was awesome. It was the first really dangerous T-34 (the 1940 T-34 wasn't that good) that in my opinion was a game changer. It gave the Wehrrnacht many headaches.
There were also issues with M4 Sherman when it arrives to USSR in 42/43 (the M4 was fantastic tank tbh), even with those it was better than most Pz. III and IV at that time. Most of the german engines during the war the Maybach HL 120, 210 and 230 werent that reliable compared to the soviet engines nor US used in their tanks.
These kind of videos are your best, lads, keep it up
That kid had the best day seeing that T-34 roll in :D
Thanks.
Nice to see those two side by side.
Both were pretty good basic designs for their day but were hurting in a number of areas that made a lot of difference.
The Russians could build things like tanks and planes well - but things like electronics and optics they just weren't that good at.
My understanding - is that they had Radios on the Company Level but these were Receivers only - so the Battalion Commander could issue orders to his Companies - but they could not speak back to him - and he had no way to speak to the tanks in his company (10 tanks in 3, 3 tank platoons plus the CO). They used signal flags and other hand signals. This meant that if a T-34 saw something - it had a good deal of difficulty passing that information on. The Germans with Transceivers in all their tanks could operate much more fluidly and pass information about readily. That made a tremendous difference.
Their optics were really bad - which made it hard for the gunners to sight in on a target - which made it that much harder to get a hit. The Germans had the best optics of the war - so - they had a much better chance of getting a hit at longer ranges.
There were a number of Nations that had 2 man turrets at the beginning of the war. Most if not all the French Turrets were two man Turrets - which left the Tank Commander or gunner doing multiple duties. Having a 3 man turret on the Mark III's and IV's was one of the German tankers main advantages early on.
The German's hull designs weren't that good, their guns weren't that big but they all had radios and 3 man turrets - so they were much more flexible and responsive - while their optics let them be much more accurate with the guns they did have.
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Wasn't expecting an Aus Armour video to drop today. Nice surprise for a Friday and interesting video.
Thanks for the Friday tank fix, guys!
Clutches are nice as long as you don't slip them for too long. Steel discs warp and do not disengage properly anymore, if they get hot. After that it's hard to get the gears to engage. Most probably the cause of countless transmission problems these had during the war.
American reports also mentions 'for unknown reasons Russians did not use synchromesh'.
Soviets had similar feelings, sometimes they fitted Studebaker's gearbox somehow.
A great deal of gratitude is owed to the Soviet people and these tanks for their valor in ww2. If not for those brave people we would probably all be speaking german.
If not for the presence of American troops in western europe in 1945... We would probably speaking russian...
I do not think any one in Poland agree with you
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Then why did the USSR take half of it after German invasion of Poland and then take all of it at the end of the war?
Let's see how well your 'boots on the ground' americans do in ukraine. They'll be speaking jibberish after Kinzhal welcomes them.@@tonidmc
The early design and manufacture of the T-34 should be considered in the context of the USSR's situation at the time which was in great contrast to the US's. While the US could take it's time with extensive testing and modifications the USSR had no such luxury.
True. To compound the problem Uncle Joe had a sweet tooth for killing his own people who had enough intelligence to understand what was happening.
..while true, Russia has never really very lucky in being able to maintain an industrial quality to any high level or long,
..always it has just about skims past onwards with the barest minimum, certainly during and after the Soviet era,
whilst forcefully marketing the conceptual ideas & lies around of what it wanted, as real truths,
But, the bear, the mob of the people & it's regimes, have nearly always been lying,, and usually afraid of.. truth, reality, honesty, good/uncorrupted people, whom want something better & more than what 'it' [Russia] is to those whom rule it..
The early designed should be considered as the invulnerable but blind tank, the Germans were shocked by, deflecting all shots from cannons available by 1941, but hated by Germans when they used the captured ones. Otherwise, the worst quality T-34s came later on, up 93% of production considered faulty and unable to fight. Yet, the general design proved pretty good, T-34/85 being a good combat machine even after WWII. The main issue remained however; for unknown reasons, Soviets never implemented synchromesh gearbox although techically they should have been able from the very beginning. During WWII some T-34s were actually fitted with Lend-Lease Studebaker's gearbox which mitigated this issue.
@@piotrmalewski8178был в этом умышленный расчёт - делать хорошую коробку дорого и сложно в условиях дефицита оборудования и кадров, эта работает как-то и ладно, танков много, задавим количеством, а не качеством. Поэтому кувалдой переключали передачу или ехали на 1 передаче и перегревали мотор.
The contrast is actually reversed - US has only just laid out specifications for Sherman when when russians were already planning the T-34M upgrade with a hexagonal 3-man turret (like the 85), torsion bar suspension and even more front armor but that was scrapped by the barbarossa. If soviets could afford to switch production on a whim they'd be rolling into berlin on T-44, maybe even with the 100mm gun, and this is basically a spaceship by WW2 standards.
It's sad that some office required holes cut into the barrel and the breach welded closed.
0 respect for historic machines. Also, just how incredibly moronic is it to expect someone to use the main armament of a freaking WW2 AFV ?! Where tf is one supposed to find 76mm rounds to feed the F-34 ?! Let's ruin a living piece of history just cause big scary gun ! Govt logic...
@@koskok2965 Indeed. You can't get shells even in Russia in the first place. Plus, really... If you own a medium tank, the cannon is the least of concerns for public health and safety...
@@piotrmalewski8178 Yep. People smacking into tens of thousands of kilograms of pure steel while speeding inside their tin can would worry me a lot more.
This one has rubber on the track wheels. That was my first observation. Great presentation. Thank you Aus Armour you have a great channel.
Did you guys know , that there is a 1952 centurion on display , on the Dukes Hwy in the middle of Keith SA .
It is in a fully wired on all sides and with a roof , display type shed . It looks to be totally complete . Hope next time you get down that way you get a chance to take a look for yourselves.
Note, the gun used in 1940 variant was L-11 not F-11. Good video nonetheless. Would be cool to see more of these older variants up and running.
Hey AusArmour. Love your work 👍
Excellent video. Thank you.
awesome! nice to see the 2 side by side for comparison!
The Legend
Great video, great review, thank you.
My favorite WW2 tank after the Tiger 1 is the T-34. I think they are a great looking tank. I aim for trap points on tanks in WOT-B. Those T-34,s were so cramped that they couldn't fit a commander and gunner so the commander was the gunner. I have heard that they had to elevate the barrel to be able to reload. Cheers Guys! Great work once again.
It's a Lamborghinig Countach of tanks. Looks great but it's actually terrible.
@@piotrmalewski8178 You are spot on about that!
Не требовал поднимать ствол. Так можно зарядить.
Holy Smokers! How cool is that, and rare!
Terrific vid, very informative 👍👍👍
Holy shit! That's the T34 76 1941 model ! ! !
That hole in the barrel reminds me that I need to get out to the range as soon as the weather breaks.
I’m guessing road testing tanks never gets old for the boys. Wellll, I changed a headlight, better take her for a road test! 😂
Holes in the side of the barrel ? Is this good for proper function of the cannon ?
Wow! Just like Christmas!
Lovely stuff, no complaints on the video itself, but could *some* tank channel *somewhere* *please* do a short video *showing* how the T-34 and T-55 track pins work with the "slap 'em back into place" ramps? I realize that the pins are *probably* tapered with the thick end on the inboard side of the track, but never when I have I see the ramp mentioned has this been made explicit. I'm also curious about how the pins are manufactured; casting makes sense to create a tapered shape with minimal machining, but I'd have thought forging would've been the more widespread (and thus economical) option for the USSR, at least pre- and early-war. Keep up the good content!
What a superb collection and a commitment to full running restoration. How are you guys funded?
Interesting tank tour as always !. Didn't know those early model of T-34 did have radio in them.🤔
Most of them did not have a radio
@@MichalKaczorowski Thank you for the comment !. Thats what I was thinking too.
Throughout 1941-42 the soviet industry installed radios in "one from N tanks built".
Usually it was aimed to have one radio in a tank company (in a company commander's tank), and the others were supposed to behave according to the plan. During 1942 a radio equipped tanks ratio was constantly increasing (except for stalingrad factories, but those tanks have been used exclusively in stalingrad campaign), until somewhere in the first half of 1943 all produced tanks finally got their radios
@@ВячеславФролов-д7я Thank you for your very informative reply !.
Another vehicle a must for me to see at armour fest
Track suits and kvass for everyone!
Мощь советская. !
What a beast
Nice work
One other noticable difference between the 1940 and 1941 model T-34 besides the barrel length of the 76mm gun, was the driver's vision port. The original model had only 1 in center of the hatch, whereas this has 2 and can be closed shut if desired.
You guys did a very nice job. Nice to see such a rare tank restored. Regards from the Belgium Ardennes.
4:12 isn’t the R-123 VHF radio anachronistic a bit for the T-34?
OMG, Fantastic !!
the commander was a gunner, he wasn't loading the gun. The crew was - commander (gunner), driver, loader.
Great video thankyou! Where is it from?
Wheres the other t34 early model which still running? Only one? Or still other on out There? Cause i only always see and t34 85
thanks that was interesting
Красавец!
I would like to know more about the specific tank model you have. I.E. where did you get it from and what ever history beyond that. thanks
Holy Molly, a T34-76mm ! Does it run still ? All I ever see is T34-85s built after the war that were actually built with the proper bolts and somewhat correctly. 😆
You didn't watch the video then? 😅
"Does it run still ?" Did you fall asleep drunk and wake up after the video was over?
Hard to believe the engine in that thing is basically still fighting today lol.
It doesn't. It's a dumb cliche
@@Conserpov Is a derivative of it still powering T72?
@@FrontSideBus
And iPhone 12 is a "derivative" of iPhone 1
@@Conserpov I highly doubt the latest iPhone has anything in common with the first one! Whereas they all share the same engine block. Any anyway, why do you assume I was being negative? The fact that the same basic design has been in service for so long shows what a good job they did in the first place!
@@FrontSideBus
Similar, not same.
Nice how many Grants did it take to trade for that?
Great report! That is a great addition to the collection! The T-34 is a Brut not a Beauty!
Wasn't the commander of the T-34/76 also the gunner, not the loader?
Cleanest T34 around.
The Turret rotation is hand cranked ?
I think that this is a 1942 model. It has the round service hatch in the rear. The 1941 models had a square hatch.
Did you see the totally knackered T34 engine which still ran on Mr Hewes channel?
Rear main cap fractured, bolts sheared & lying in the sump.
You could move the clutch end of the crank up & down about 1/2" !
hide your flag, and then your comment would be taken seriously.
@@novosib9017 People who support Putin should be neither seen nor heard.
You destroyed the main armament of a historically valuable vehicle in a primitive way.
Oh no a tank gun that will never shoot again is unable to shoot again
The horror ….
Just curious how ownership changes for example isnt this soviet property originally so do they sell them or was it ok to just take them from the battle field and keep them
Видно что это старая версия Т-34 ( ее называют Т-34/76 с 76 мм пушкой) Вообще их было несколько исполнений, в зависимости от завода на котором их производили. Отличаются эти варианты формой башни. Я в таких нюансах не разбираюсь. Но это точно вариант до 1944 года выпуска. Потому что начиная с середины 1943 года начали производить вариант с 85 мм пушкой ( обычно обозначают как Т-34/85). Насчет жеской коробки передач на ранних версиях- это правда. Но про молоток - не правда;) рычаг переключали пинком ноги ;)
Т34/85 принят на вооружение СА 23 Февраля 1944 года.
Any truth to the old stories of T-34 getting pulled out of a bog and it’s engine firing back up after just being flushed out?
Was the quality of the casting this crude out of the factory or has the tank been sitting in a lake for 60 years?
I'd say probably both!!!
It was crude. This even seems to be a somewhat nice example because I have seen worse examples on photo's.
Same for photo's of T-34s where there are clear gaps between the armour plates.
On top the Soviets used high hardness armour for the T-34. It was more effective against uncapped AP rounds used by armies all over the world, in the years before and during early WW2. But non penetrating hits could very well lead to bits of metal on the back of the plate from breaking off and going through the tank. But the bigger issue was that the Germans very quickly started fielding their excellent Pz.Gr.39 APCBC projectiles with very hard caps. Those negated the advantage of the harder armour and arguably turned it into a disadvantage because such hard plates tend to not resist these type of projectiles well.
It wasn't only a Soviet issue either. The British for example also struggled with the same issue, but they quickly rectified it during WW2. Later on, the Germans also experienced problems because they started running out of alloys and constantly needed to create new steel formulas for armour plates. There seems to have been a period (1943) where they had clear issues. But later on it seems to have gotten far less problematic again.
The Germans do seem to have sacrificed some of their protective capabilities by making their medium hardness armour, a bit less hard. That reduced spalling, but also reduced stopping power a bit. The Americans meanwhile kept improving their armour plates over the course of the war, steadily getting harder but they don't seem to have suffered much from spalling. Late war the Germans, Americans and British where very much converged to medium hardness armour of around 250-300BHN that could resist shell impacts without spalling that much. Post war the Soviets also started using such plating on tanks like T-54.
the tank s paint almost looks like bess brown. is it? or is it an od. the camera gives a strange shade of color like the thumb nail is clearing green but on the trailer and driving in the building look brown..
Did this come straight out of the factory?
Боже, кто только собрал им эту шляпу...Им теперь столько придётся переделывать, чтобы привести его в аутентичный вид...
Where did this one come from?
He estado en Bovington y Saumur pero por lo visto, la colección que ustedes tienen no tiene nada que envidiar. En qué parte de Australia están ubicados?. Aún no planeo mis próximas vacaciones :-). Saludos desde Chile
Cairns, in Queensland 😊
@@tdb7992 gracias!
4:15 Эй, а что в танке 1941 года делает радиостанция Р-123? 😆
As narrow as that gun looked, I thought I was looking at a T34/57.
rare modification nowadays. Where from did you buy it ? Suppose that from one of the destroyed memorials in Eastern Europe.
Actually model 1942, Krasnoye Sormovo 112 factory.
The commander was actually the gunner, not the loader
why is there hole in the barrel can i ask?
So it can’t shoot
Also you can see a block of steel welded in the breech
@@tomhenry897 that's crimnal who ever did that is a monster
Some stupid government bureaucrat with a gun control mindset thinks it's a good idea to vandalize historical war machines that haven't fired their guns in decades.
Добрый день...А Т-34 какого завода?СТЗ?
скорее китайский...
The russians used short men as standard because of the small spaces in there tanksI have read somewhere not sure if true
During the Soviet Union times when they were using T series tanks (T55 and T72 for example)
Their turrets were extremely cramped so they had a height cut off around 5’6 or something
T34s had whoever they could get to crew them though
Why is it always piss rain when the new exhibits arrive ?
T-34-76 from Somovo Tank Factory aka Red Sormovo.
Who owns this place?
Agggghhh that deactivation hole in the barrel is a travesty can the Museum not “bog” it up ?
You'd think they'd place the hole somewhere less visible. In the interior shots you can see the breech has been welded shut, too.
Yes, it's such a shame that museums have to "demilitarize" the main guns of these historical artifacts. It's unlikely someone is ever going to break into the museum with a combat load of Russian 76mm tank shells and go on a shooting spree. Last summer, I watched a video of some Russians trying to restart the engine of a SU-152 that had been abandoned in a field for years in their small town. Just as they finally got it running, a guy with an acetylene torch showed up and burned a large, jagged hole into the main gun's barrel. Stupid demilitarization policies don't appear to be limited to just the US and Australia.
Ordered by the government
Nice t34
I just saying it’s not a t34 that is a American heavy tank made and produced after the war every thinks a t-34 and a t34 are they same thing
No they don't. No-one has ever heard of the American T34, but every enthusiast has heard of the Russian T-34. @@gnadodeer-SAVETF2
What's the history of this -76? It looks very heavily corroded, escpecially the commanders hatch and even the gun breech inside the turret.
Probably another panzer of some lake. It was very common for tanks to get stuck and abandoned in various water bodies during wartime maneuvers.
Ужасающая комплектация представленного образца Т-34:
- антенна от поздних послевоенных советских бронемашин - Р-123;
- радиостанция тоже от послевленной советской тхники и установлена в бортовом спосоне не верно (должна быть перед правым сиденьем экипажа ниже установки курсоврго пулемета ДТ);
- пулемет ДТ в курсовой шаровой установке размещен не верно (должен стволом сверху, а у вас - газоотвод сверху почему-то);
- в боевом отделении нет бортовых топливных баков и листов металла, их закрывающих;
- внешние топливные баки цилиндрической формы не использовались на машинах вплоть до 1943 года. Если хотели поставить внешние топливные баки, то нужны коробчатой формы на верхнем кормовом бронелисте;
- слева от фары на лобовом верхнем бронелисте установлен звуковой сигнал, который у Т-34 для обозначенного периода должен распологаться внутри бронекорпуса;
- звуковой сигнал от помлевоенной ьронетехгики - модель С-58;
И так далее и тому подобное...
Модель танка не верно отнесена к модели 1941 года (внешние топливные баки, траки и т.д. от поздних машин).
В общем, вышел красивый, но Франкенштейн
Thanks for the knowledgeable assessment of this T-34 and its postwar modifications, plus outright incorrect configurations.
Why is the commander loading the gun in the 1941 model? What’s his loader doing? Smoking a durry with his hands tied up?
2 men in the turret, like many nations' early tanks.
🤣i feel so much better , my jeans are large , if this is medium i call my waist a victory
Hold up minute something ain’t right about this statement I don’t know what
Um, one good looking T34.