Tank Lovers Group
Hobbies & Interests
This group is for everyone who like tanks, sci-fi tanks, real tanks, funny tanks, you can put here tank mods, tank maps, simply everything with straps, armor and gun :D
TG - Tank Grotte. Was created in USSR in 1931 by german engineer-designer Edvard Grotte. "Powerful medium tank". Tank used many original decisions and innovations which seriously outpaced the overall level of global tankproduction of those times. Didn't go to mass production because of high cost and nonconformity to soviet tankproduction. But experience gained during it's creation was used in production of T-35 tank.
Weaponry: 1 × 76,2 mm А-19 AA cannon (50 shots), 1 × 37-mm PS-1 AT cannon (80 shots) , telescopic scope, 2 × 7,62 mm DT machine guns, 3 × 7,62 mm Maksim machine guns (2309 bullets) . Speed - 34 km/h, Crew - 5-6 members, weight 26 tons. Radar station. Remained as prototype which made serious step in soviet tank production.
Image: latest axonometrical drawing from real photo.
awesome tank :D