![]() In the 1930s, OKMO also designed a number of self-propelled artillery and antiaircraft guns, and tracked infantry, ammunition and fuel transporters, but only prototypes or trial batches of any were ever built, except for the T-26-T artillery tractor. (One of the Leningrad engineering students had been Mikhail Koshkin, the T-34's chief designer) Following Soviet armoured experience in Spain, another version was built with thicker armour and a better gun-it was considered for the A-20/T-32 competition which led to the famous T-34 medium tank, but by this time was obviously outdated. ![]() Further T-29-4 and T-29-1 prototypes were built in 1935, but in testing at the NIIBT in Kubinka none of these were found satisfactory. The resulting T-29-5 adopted the wheel-and-track running gear from the BT fast tank. Tseits worked with graduate students from the Leningrad Technical Institute to modernize the multi-turreted T-28 medium tank by adding a Christie suspension. 37's competing T-43-1 were both rejected in favour of continuing T-37 production.Īlso in 1934, N. In 1934, OKMO designed the T-43-2, a design for an amphibious tank with convertible drive-being able to run on tracks or wheels-as a possible replacement for the T-37 amphibious scout tank. Tseits's team and inspired by the British Vickers Independent. A slightly more practical "land battleship" was the T-35 heavy tank, designed by N. A team led by German engineer Eduard Grote worked on a 100-ton design with 107 mm gun, four sub-turrets, and pneumatic suspension and servo-controls, called the T-41 or TG-5. In 1930 OKMO also began design studies for heavy tanks. In 1930, bureau oversaw design changes to the British Vickers E tank for construction as the T-26 light infantry tank, and later improvements to the T-26. 100 (unofficially named "Tankograd"), and continued the production of Kotin's design line. In 1941, because of German threat, parts of both factories were moved to Chelyabinsk, where the large complex was given the name Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant No. 100 was a home of SKB-2 ( Kotin, known for KV line of heavy tanks). 185 was a home of OKMO bureau (Ginzburg), while the larger Factory No. They were independent factories the Factory No. 100), notably in Sewell's " Why Three Tanks?" and works of Steven Zaloga. ![]() 185 is often mistaken in Western sources with Kirov Plant (or Factory No. Because of the same honorific and the same city of location, the Factory No. The new enterprise was also dedicated to the production of tanks, while the main part of Bolshevik Factory remained focused on production of heavy artillery. 174, moved at the same time to Factory No. The OKMO, for a few months a part of Factory No. Barykov and Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg. Janusz Magnuski says that in 1932 one of the former departments of the Bolshevik factory became a base for the new independent entity, named in 1935 as Factory No. This new, independent enterprise was dedicated to the mass production of T-26 tank. In 1932, the tank department of the Bolshevik factory, became the new Factory No. 232 became home to the AVO-5 tank design bureau, soon renamed OKMO.
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