T-34/76 Range Wreck (Patreon)

‘Range wrecks’ are a vital part of training tank crews in gunnery. Hulks stripped of anything flammable, they can stand up to a great deal of punishment as they are slowly destroyed by hits from armour piercing rounds that contain no explosive. Old, or in wartime captured, tanks are a good source of these expendable targets. This is the latter, a Soviet T-34/76 on Putlos range in Germany in August 1945.