Kharkiv Morozov - Tank Factory.

[von Poop]

Ukranian armour builders still going strong.
KMDB - Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau

Click 'Historical review' on the left hand bar for an unusual concise history of Soviet Armour design & designers with a company perspective on the difficulties faced. Nice profiles of vehicles produced too, from T12 through BT7 & T34, right up to T84.
Well worth a shufti.





Cheers,
Adam.

[Bodston]

I have the very same information in a handy book form. Dual languages, Russian and English. Very good it is too.

[Za Rodinu]

Yes, well woth a look.

In order to prevent by all means the tank production from stopping, the Design Bureau declared mobilisation of all efforts for saving non-ferrous metals, rubber, armour steel, wires, for making the vehicle easier to manufacture. Absolutely all parts of the tank were revised, the designers used cast iron instead of bronze, replaced rivets by welding, manufactured stamped parts by casting, cancelled intermediate parts. As a result of these efforts, the designers managed to completely exclude 765 component parts, thus considerably simplifying the process of vehicle manufacturing. This was a considerable contribution to organising volume production of the tanks. Simple design, ability to be easily produced in large numbers and high COMBAT CHARACTERISTICS of the T-34 tank created its excellent reputation. Later on it was considered to be what was arguably the best tank of the Second World War.

[kfz]

a Little bit of info on the T43 and T34M is interesting. Didnt realise that the deigner was so keen to loose the Christie suspensionin favor of torsion bars, Praised in the west as the tanks best feature!!

Kev

[Gotthard Heinrici]

Great site VP! Thanks for that.