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Not a great click-bait title, is it?  Should it have been "The tank that gave Hitler nightmares!" instead?  Not really my style. 

Anyway, for those of you who like tanks: tanks!  Specifically LOTS of tanks.  


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World War Two's most common tank

Go to https://tanks.ly/44OWMot and use the code "TANKMANIA" to get a free tier V tank, 250K credits, one week premium access, and 10 battles with each of: Tiger, Cromwell, T-34. What click-bait title should I have used for this? "The tank that gave the Germans nightmares"? "The Commonest Communist tank?" "The tank of the teeming red hordes"? As I describe here, they made ever-so many of this type of tank, and that fact alone makes it an important tank. Picture credits: Sturmtiger image, also T-34 images Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons T-34 image with German markings Methem (Mikko J. Putkonen), CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons T-34 war memorial Photo by a href="https://pixnio.com/transportation-vehicles/tanks/army-war-military-tank-camouflage-vehicle-armored-armor-transport-sky"Couleur on a href="https://pixnio.com/"Pixnio Craig Nagy from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons T-34s on the way to the front By RIA Novosti archive, image #1274 / RIA Novosti / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579759 T-34s capturd by Germans By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-277-0836-04 / Jacob / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5476772 T-34s giving rides in winter By fotoreporter sovietico sconosciuto - scan da T.Bean and W.Fowler, Russian tanks of World War II, Ian Allan 2002, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18668627 Burning T-34 By Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F016221-0016 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5452078 Polish hex-turret T-34 By Radomil talk 14:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1844547 T-34/85 with re-enactors By Cezary Piwowarski - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3997579 Angolan Civil War T-34 User:Katangais, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons T34 at Warsaw Museum Ferran Cornellà, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Panzer I image By Ashley Pomeroy - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133656770 Panzer II image By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-265-0003-18A / Moosdorf [Mossdorf] / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5410602 37mm ATG images By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-127-0391-21 / Huschke / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5408852 By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-299-1831-26 / Hähle, Johannes / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5476984 Panzer II image By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-318-0083-30 / Rascheit / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5477173 PIAT image By Ranger Steve - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7504980 Bomb image Greg Goebel, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Buy the music - the music played at the end of my videos is now available here: https://lindybeige.bandcamp.com/track/the-mandeville-march Buy tat (merch): https://www.bonfire.com/results/Lindybeige/ More videos here: All Lindybeige: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzzh7AuEBkEmMWChgPPOQqjhkkPq_eP1X Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make. ▼ Follow me... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lindybeige I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads. Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Lindybeige My website: http://www.LloydianAspects.co.uk Channel page: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lindybeige

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Adam Schindler

For all of the kludges and half-measures, two things that the Russians got absolutely correct with the T34 were the shape of the frontal armor and the engine/transmission/drive entirely in the rear. Two angled plates in front with no or minimal shot traps with the turret: no flat surfaces to penetrate and simple construction which was very adaptable to welding. The all-rear engine of course made the tank a bear to drive with dodgy linkages, but it kept the tank's stature much shorter than that of the Sherman. EVERYONE steadily adopted those design principles over time, and even the tanks that diverge from it like the Merkava keep to a similar idea (engine/transmission together, but in the front instead of the rear). There is a certain brilliance in design that must accompany cheaply made items if they are to be effective, and the T34 had that in spades.

Bartosz Błaszkiewicz

Hole-y mall-y. You were in Poland. Warsaw even. Nice ain't it?

Anonymous

To be fair the vast majority of British tanks of WW2 had the same engine and transmission to the rear as well. The first British tanks with that feature seem to be the Vickers A1E1 Independent and the Medium Mk.III of roughly the same time and these are often said to have influenced the Russians even before they got their hands on Christie's design.

Luc Drouin

Marvellous video! My compliments.