You often hear that the T-34 was a disposable tank that was never intended to survive for very long on the battlefield, so there was no reason to make it particularly reliable, but how true is that really? I run through the numbers to compare where the Red Army wanted its T-34 tanks to be in terms of reliability and how far the tank could actually be expected to travel.
No T-34s were harmed in the making of this video.
In Gdańsk (Poland), near Medical Academy, we have a monument with T-34 Model 41/42. Tank, which was used in monument, was destroyed/damaged in 1945. For me, that's anecdotal argument for non-disposable T-34.
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