T26 was the staple of the Red army's armored division throughout the thirties. From a low-grade export model, with the power of the nation of workers and peasants, to a battle-proven machine, unparalleled in the world by its sheer numbers and quality. Now, making its debut here.
Presented here is the lineage of the T26. Enjoy!
T26 mod. 1931. Basically a copy of Vickers 6-Ton. Yet, the Soviet engineers saw potential...
It came to mind that two machineguns might happen to be a bit inadequate for the battlefield. A makeshift T26 mod. 1932 series was put in production, sporting a 37 mm gun in the right turret.
From here on, we might as well talk of a new tank. T26 mod. 1933 was a Soviet engineering marvel, sporting an excellent, modern 45 mm gun in a large, two-man turret, with up to 3 DT machineguns, at the time when the world standard was the weak Puteaux 37 mm. Can be considered T72's great-grandfather.
Soviet Union is cold. This thing, the OT26, isn't. Designed on the basis of T26 mod. 1931, it showed the world the effectiveness of assault flamethrower tanks.
A step further. OT-130, based on the T26 mod. 1933, offered a larger fuel tank, a longer flame range, and overall higher efficiency over its predecessor, OT26.
All of the models were made and textured by Alexey88. From scratch (MoW T26 was rather inadequate). X and XX models included, with a variety of textures.
That's all for today. Enjoy!
For the World in War team,
~HrcAk47
Among all those tanks i like T-26 the most. Also impressive model.
Well... they are all T26... XD
I've always love the 1933 T-26, I like it's turret shape. Great models.
very cool i like how you guys made the whole line up and explained the evolution of this tank very cool also impressive model it caught my eye and brought me here
Thanks :)
Cant wait to see this mod! Very impressive work on the modeling/skinning!