76 mm HEAT
"USSK NKOMain Artillery DirectorateArtillery CommitteeJanuary 12th, 1944#600013sMoscowTo commanders of artillery of Fronts and Armies:RE: using 76 mm armour burning (HEAT) ammunitionArmour burning...
View ArticleKV-3 Delays
"June 2nd, 1941To the People's Commissar of Heavy Machinebuilding comrade YefremovTo the Chairman of the Committee of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade VoroshilovTo the Chief of the Main...
View ArticleErsatz AP
"To the commander of the 89th Artillery RegimentTo commanders of artillery of rifle regimentsCombat at the Bryansk Front showed that 76 mm shrapnel rounds set to impact fuse successfully penetrate...
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Thick Skin of German Beasts
German Tiger, Panther, and King Tiger tanks are some of the best known vehicles in the history of tank building and still occupy the minds of armoured vehicle enthusiasts. Their enormous size, thick...
View ArticleSights Trials
"April 4th, 1941Report on the trials of a PT-4 periscopic tank sightTrials were conducted according to directive #145211/s of the Main Automotive and Armoured Vehicle Directorate of the Red Army issued...
View ArticleT-34M Requirements
"To the Chief of the Red Army GABTU, Lieutenant General of the Tank Forces, comrade Ya.N. FedorenkoDecember 30th, 1940#18239ssCopy: to the Chairman of the Committee of Defense of the Council of...
View ArticleKatyusha Effectiveness
"InformationEnemy soldiers on our artillery and mortars (based on interrogations of POWs, journals and letters of German and Hungarian troops)POW Unteroffizier Franz Georg Lamus (222nd Infantry...
View ArticleBS-3 Sights
"1st Ukrainian FrontDirectorate of ArtilleryDecember 20th, 1944#04724The commander of the 10th Guards Artillery Tank Destroyer Brigade reports that when firing HE grenades from the 100 mm gun at a 1.5...
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The Australian Sentinel
Nations with no prior tank building experience first began building tanks in WWII, including several nations from the British Commonwealth. Most frequently, these nations built copies of British...
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7.5 cm KwK Firing Tables
Like all firing tables in this series, this one comes with a brief general instruction on fighting tanks."Principles for firing at difficult to fight vehiclesKeep calm and cool, let the tank approach...
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Long Living KV-1S
"Award orderName: Ivan Agapovich Podkosov Rank: Guards LieutenantPosition: Commander of the "Papanin" tank, 80th Guards Idritsa Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov 3rd class Heavy Tank Regimentis...
View ArticleObsolete Trophies
"Information on Somua and Hotchkiss tanksOn September 9-10th, near grid square 5016-7, the 38th Guards Independent Tank Brigade knocked out and captured 12 enemy tanks. Of them, 4 are Somua and 8 are...
View ArticleUshanka
"Order to the forces of the 9th ArmyJanuary 29th, 1940#81Active armyBy order of the Stavka of the Supreme Command, fur ushanka hats have arrived for all personnel of the 9th Army.I order that:The...
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The Last Cruiser
The stagnation of British tank building in the 1930s cost the country dearly in WWII. Nearly the entire war was spent playing catch-up. There were some minor successes such as the Matilda tank, but the...
View ArticleTiger Killers
"Combat against T-VI "Tiger" tanksConclusions from combat experience gained during the defensive operations of the Central and Voronezh Fronts between July 5th and 10th, 1943Initial data about...
View ArticleObject 263 Development
"Brief report on the results of experimental, scientific research, and test production at VNII-100 in June of 1950Topic #1: heavy ISU-130 SPG on the chassis of the new heavy tankThe development of the...
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Mongolian Regiment
All aid provided by foreign governments to the USSR is usually lumped under the term Lend Lease, but this is inaccurate. A significant amount of aid came from other sources, such as Mongolia. One of...
View ArticleSeven Years of Tank Archives
The seventh year of running this blog has come to an end. Last year I started with an exciting announcement: I was writing my first book! It was published in October of 2019 in the UK, and recently...
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The Almighty Panzerfaust
Soviet movies set in the initial stages of the Great Patriotic War depict the Simonov and Degtyaryev anti-tank rifles as incredibly effective. In movies that cover the end of the war, not necessarily...
View ArticleGoliath Intel
"Intelligence Department of the Armoured and Motor Vehicles HQ of the Bryansk FrontAugust 2nd, 1943The commander of Armoured and Motor Vehicles of the Bryansk front orders that all personnel must be...
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