External Fuel Tanks

true they shoulda had a seprate compartment box over top of em to protect them. like some extra armor of some sort. they would probably look like the german Elephant with the box on them

 

Not that great of an idea as it increases the profile from the side.

 

And it could get in the way of turret traverse.

 

looks risky even runnin diesle...do we have accts of red tanks being lost because of external gas tank ruptureed by enemy fire?

 

roughly how much extra range would be gained out of external fuel tanks :x

 

According to Onwar.com, the JS series heavy tanks gained 80-110 kilometers of range (depending on the type) due to external fuel tanks. This is about a 50% increase.

 

so does that mean then that some external fuel tanks were worth it

 

Absolutely. They were just a tad dangerous when actually riding into battle, hence why they were so easily removable.

 

With some googling you can find desroyed T-34's with external fuel tanks...from the Korean war.

Best thing to find out if exteranl fuel tanks were used in battle is to find destroyed tanks i guess...

 

Thing is you don't know if they were empty when the tank was destroyed. If it was empty mow much more of a danger would they be than normally?

 

fumes of combustable gasses could be in those tanks wich means they are still dangerous, volatile and explodable!

 

I'd imagine a fairly low pressure explosion such as that wouldn't be that dangerous to a typical tank (Although to any infantry riding externally it could be deadly), I would have thought that having burning fuel sloshing around the engine deck would be more dangerous.

 

But by the time of the korean war was the T-34 outdated or was it used in a similar way to ww2 :x

 

It was outdated, as was shown when more modern tanks like the Centurian made it to Korea.

However, the main UN tank that was there initially was the Sherman, to which the T-34 was about equal.