48 - Fallen Giants: The Russian T-35 Tank

The WW2 Podcast

Angus Wallace

Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I'm looking at the giant soviet T-35 tank with Francis Pulham. As you will discover the T-35 was a peculiar vehicle with five turrets, very few were ever produced and almost all were knocked out very early in the war.

Francis is the author of Fallen Giants, The Combat Debut of the T-35a tank.

"The T-35 was a Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank of the interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited production and service with the Red Army. It was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach production, but proved to be slow and mechanically unreliable. Most of the T-35 tanks still operational at the time of Operation Barbarossa were lost due to mechanical failure rather than enemy action.

Outwardly, it was large; but internally, the spaces were cramped with the fighting compartments separated from each other. Some of the turrets obscured the entrance hatches." wikipedia

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1:04.0	In this episode we're looking at the giant Soviet T-35 tank with Francis Pullum.
1:11.0	As you will discover, the T35 was a peculiar vehicle with five turrets, very few were ever produced, and almost all were knocked out very early in the war.
1:22.0	Francis is the author of Fallen Giants, the combat debut of the T35A Tank.
1:29.6	So thanks for joining me.
1:31.6	Shall we start with looking at the Russian German TG Tank Project?
1:38.0	The T35 was to come out of that.
1:41.0	What was it? I wasn't aware of that.
1:43.4	The TG Tank was the brainchild of Ernst Grotter, who was a German engineer who went to the Soviet
1:50.8	Union under the sort of pre-Nazi cooperation to build tanks because obviously
1:57.2	Germany was prohibited of making arms after World War I and a way to get around this was to send engineers to other nations where they could learn different skills.
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