Name that tank!

No sorry to say that is not correct.

 

Looks like Soviet T-26 with a radio antenna ..... looking for specific variant but it looks like it wasn't one just commander vehicles.

 

Tired Old Soldier has the answer.

 

The following info was taken from the website where I found the photo. T-26M35 equipped with radio transmitter. The vehicle has riveted hull, armoured headlight, driver's cabin moved forward, enlarged hatch to transmission compartment, modified hatches above engine and punched gun mask. Photo: T-26M35 tank equipped with radio transmitter during the Kiev manoeuvres in 1935.

Over to TiredOldSoldier.

Edit: here's a little more info about the tank. This is a quote from Wikipedia:
"The T-26 was a Soviet light infantry tank used during many conflicts of the 1930s as well as during World War II. It was a development of the British Vickers 6-ton tank and is widely considered one of the most successful tank designs of the 1930s.
It was produced in greater numbers than any other tank of the period, with more than 11,000 produced. During the 1930s, the USSR developed approximately 53 variants of the T-26, including other combat vehicles based on its chassis. Twenty-three of these were mass-produced."

 

The "35" in the model name is the year of manufacture for that design.

Soviets liked that numbering system after the model type for clarity.

 

This would have me baffled ....

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Indeed difficult question, especially part with typing answer
Panzerjager 38(t) mit 7,5cm PaK40/3 Ausf M (Sd Kfz 138)

 

You can always call it a Marder III Ausf M (simpler to type )

I would have recognized this (same vehicle seen from the side)

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but not what I posted, do we have the same book (Panzers in Italy) ?

I really expected this to last a bit longer your turn

 

No, I don't have that book. Although it looks to have lot of interesting photos. Photos with interesting angle or view are most challenging.

I used "Encyclopedia of German tanks of WW2". It is very nice book!

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Slomo, Tired Old soldier,
Your questions are indeed challenging. Since I spent lot of time reading about ww2 tanks, and collected lot of literature / bookmarks, I can narrow field of of search and find answer soon.

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Here is new, similar question:
Vehicle on this photo is?

 

Is it the Waffentrager 38(d) ARDELT with the 88mm Pak 43 L/71 gun?

 

So I see a loader, but where/who is the gunner?

Or is he obscured by the other soldiers holding the next round to be loaded?

 

lol, I don't know for sure. He could be relieving himself.

Might be they are short-handed and the loader is doubling as gunner.........but If I must guess I'd say he is perched in the gunner's seat and is hidden from view, by the gun and the other soldier holding the next round.

What do you think?

 

Please don't be insulted by my little joke. I mean't nothing by it. Your question is valid.

Waffentrager armed with 88mm Pak 43/3 L/71 gun.
Krupp/Steyr Prototype. This model was apparently only crewed with 3 men. Could that be what it is.

 

This is correct answer!
Photo is taken after the war, where we can see soviet soldiers doing fire trials. Maybe this could account for strange layout of crew.

Your turn, Slomo

 

There is nothing hidden about this pic. It is not a common tank though and I don't think it has been featured before.

 

If it's what I think we recently had an AA variant of it.

 

In my research on this tank, I have never seen an AA variant of it. As far as I can determine it was proposed, however it was dropped before completion. Another tank that was fitted with AA is sometimes confused with this tank.

I am not an expert on tanks (nor do I pretend to be) so if anyone can actually provide evidence to refute what I've said, I'll gladly defer to their superior knowledge.

Having dug further into this subject, I found one report saying that 124 of the earliest model of the tank shown, was used to to mount an AA gun. After that period another chassis was selected to be used instead. I did find a couple of pics of what is claimed to be an AA variant of the tank above.

Another report says that the project was never completed.

 

Its a RAM II (aka M4A5). Very early production model in the batch CT-39831 to CT-40130

 

The site I got the pic from says it is a Canadian Ram Mk1, but I am not sure of this. If you look closely you can see it uses the same suspension as the M3 Medium. The pics I looked at of the Ram Mk 2 had a different suspension which I presume was from the M4.

The early Sexton was the AA variant that was based on the Ram Mk 1 tank, but later versions of the Sexton where also built on the Grizzly chassis.

I mean no disrespect with my next question as you are evidently very familiar with tanks, and a Veteran of this forum. I mainly ask this to help with my understanding and not to be arguementative. Are you sure the Ram II was (aka M4A5)? I've read that the Ram is based on the M3 Medium tank and I'm curious about the M4A5 designation as the following info was what I found when searching for info about it.

Below are 2 quotes taken from wikipedia:

"Sherman VI - M4A5 (paper designation to prevent confusion with Canadian production)"

"M4A5 - No US vehicle was built with this designation; the number was meant to signify Canadian production."

It is a Ram so over to you.

 

The Ram I was part of the production batch mentioned above consisting of about 50 vehicles out of the first 300 that were armed with a 2 pdr rather than a 6 pdr (like the one in the picture). These were used in England for training and later got "Kangaroo'ed."

Other than the smaller gun they were identical to early Ram II tanks.

The Ram II changes were:

CT 40131 on hull side door eliminated and replaced with pistol ports
CT40546 pistol ports eliminated
CT159502 the hull turret was eliminated and the hull redesigned to resemble a standard cast Sherman hull (these were used for Grizzly AA conversions)

Production serials were CT 39831 - CT 40937 (1107 vehicles) and CT 159402 to CT 160193 (792 vehicles).

All were built at the Montreal Locomotive Works except a few of the initial prototypes that were produced by the American Locomotive Company.