T-35: The Multi Turret Tank of The Red Army

Some of you may not have seen this. Not many battle losses here!

Losses of T-35 tanks on report of commander of 8th Mechanized Corps on 10 July, 1941

67th Tank Regiment


#183-6

9.7.41

Volochisk town, failure of sides brakes;

#183-16

29.6.41

20 km far Lvov, gear-box failure;

#744-65

9.7.41

between Tarnopol and Volochisk, gear-box failure;

#234-35

30.6.41

Ivankovtzy village, fell in a river;

#238-69

30.6.41

between Buek and Krasne, gear-box failure;

#288-43

26.6.41

Grudek town, friction clutch failure;

#200-5

8.7.41

Zlochuv town, gear-box failure;

#234-42

3.7.41

Zapytov town, friction clutch failure;

#537-70

30.6.41

between Ozhidev and Olesno, gear-box failure;

#744-62

26.6.41

Grudek town, friction clutch failure, run out of ammo;

#744-67

2.7.41

Zhidin town, crankshaft injury;

#744-66

9.7.41

Byaozheno village, friction clutch failure;

#196-75

9.7.41

Dzerdzune village, friction clutch failure, accumulators are depleted;

#197-1

25.6.41

20 km eastfar of Grudek town, friction clutch failure;

#744-64,
#196-95,
#330-75

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leaved in Grudek town because were immobized due to rebuilding.


68th Tank Regiment


#200-4,
#196-94,
#148-50

24.6.41

leaved in Sadovaya Vishnya because were immobilized due to rebuilding. All vehicles have been blowed up by their crews, optic and armament have been taken away;

#220-29,
#213-35

25.6.41

sunk in swamps, abandoned;

#200-8

26.6.41

failure of crankshaft, optic and armament have been taken away, vehicle have been abandoned;

#220-27,
#537-80

24.6.41

near Grudek town, gear-box failure and transmission, machine-guns and ammunition have been taken away and buried, vehicles have been abandoned;

#988-17,
#183-16

29.6.41

near Lvov, vehicles have been abandoned due to rebuilding, optic and armament have been taken away;

#288-11

29.6.41

near Lvov, fallen from bridge and burned with his crew;

#200-9, #339-30, #744-61

30.6.41

abandoned due to failure of transmission, #200-9 has been knocked out by enemy and burned, optic and armament have been taken away from all vehicles;

#399-48

30.6.41

near Belo-Kamenka, has been knocked out by enemy;

#183-3

30.6.41

near Belo-Kamenka, abandoned due to engine failure, ammunition and armament have been taken away and buried;

#148-39

30.6.41

near Verba, knocked out;

#482-5

29.6.41

Zapit' town, failure of transmission;

#288-74

1.7.41

near Tarnopol, failure of transmission, knocked out by crew;

#196-96

2.7.41

near Tarnopol, failure of transmission, abandoned, optic and armament have been leaved;

#148-22

1.7.41

abandoned in wood near Sosovo village due to gear-box failure, machine-guns have been taken away, optic has been buried;

#288-14

28.6.41

near Zapit' village, lost without a trace;

#220-25

30.6.41

Ptich'e village, knocked out during attack;

#744-63

1.7.41

abandoned in route from Zlochuv to Tarnopol due to engine failure, macine-guns have been taken away;

#988-15

1.7.41

abandoned in Zlochuv town due to gear-box failure, optic, armament and ammunition have been taken away;

#715-61

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15 km far from Lvov, abandoned due to gear-box failure, machine-guns have been taken away;

#988-16

30.6.41

Ptich'e village, knocked out during attack;

#715-62

29.6.41

Lvov city, abandoned due to failure of cooling system, machine-guns have been taken away;

#339-68

30.6.41

failure of side clutch, hit by enemy and burned near Brodu town;

#200-0

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Ptich'e village, knocked out during attack

 

Lots & lots of pics of T35 here. Text in Russian.
http://grayknight.narod.ru/T-35/T-35.htm

 

The Germans captured so many and with multiple turret's could have made a near ideal "train tank" mounted on a flat car. Wonder if they ever did?

 

Did you see his page on deployment and fates?
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgrayknight.narod.ru%2FT-35_info%2FT-35_info.htm&act=url
(Edit - sorry, think this is the same info as PTimms posted above.)

Wondered if it was the same bloke that assembled those KV2 pictures way back - couldn't find that on his server, but nice Ferdinand collections:
http://grayknight.narod.ru/Ferds_Italy/Ferds_Italy.htm
http://grayknight.narod.ru/Ferds_Kursk_43/Ferds_Kursk_43.htm

Not browsed the umbrella site for a long while:
http://pkka.narod.ru/home.htm

 

The Wirbelwind 4 barrelled AA was cool. The Soviets made the wicked 23mm ZSU which is still a bane. Multi turrets did not pan out. Multi guns in a single turret- oh yea. Wonder if the Russians have gone to gatling guns, or if the ZSU still rules yonder...Would the 4 spaced barrels be more effective than 1 bullet hose? ..Ima gonna say yes.