T-26 light tanks were also modified into armored combat vehicles in the field during wartime.įlame-throwing tanks formed around 12% of the series production of T-26 light tanks. As a result, work on self-propelled guns and armored carriers ceased in the USSR during that time.
Many Soviet tank engineers were declared "enemies of the nation" and repressed during Stalin's Great Purge from the middle of the 1930s. They were developed at the Leningrad Factory of Experimental Mechanical Engineering (from 1935 known as the Factory No.
The majority were armored combat vehicles: flame tanks, artillery tractors, radio-controlled tanks (teletanks), military engineering vehicles, self-propelled guns and armored personnel carriers. More than 50 different modifications and experimental vehicles based on the T-26 light infantry tank chassis were developed in the USSR in the 1930s, with 23 modifications going into series production.
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