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1, 2 (diorama). T-34-85, 85-mm. gun, with ammunition 60 shells, 2 machine guns, triple tower, reinforced armor, (forehead, hull, 45 mm., forehead of the tower 90 mm., board 75 mm, top of the hull and tower 20 mm.) radio station R-113, reception and transmission at a distance of 10—13 km., up to 20 km. in open terrain, with 96 frequencies (up to that 3—5 km.) Crew 4—5 people. Speed on the highway 55 km. h, cross-country 25 km. h. Improved gearbox, with synchronizer. Cruising along the highway 250 km., Cross-country 220 km. Weight 32 tons. Specific power 15,6 hp The specific pressure on the ground is 0.83 kg. see In total, in the USSR, from January 1944 to 1950, 24,000 T-34-85 were manufactured. Taking into account the previously released modifications, as well as those manufactured under license, until 1958, the quantity of T-34 is 65, 8 thousand.
3. IS-2 (IS-122). It reminds the tank T-34-85, but without its inimitable charisma. Replacement of the out-of-date IS-1 from 85 mm. gun. Here – 122 mm. gun, ammunition 28 shells (recharge is only possible with a horizontal location of the trunk), 3 machine guns (12.7 mm zenith on the tower, coupled with the gun and the stern). Booking: the forehead of the body is 100—120 mm., The side is 90 mm., The forehead of the tower is 100 mm., The side is 90 mm., The roof is 30 mm. Cruising on the highway 240 km., Cross-country 160 km. Weight 46 tons, crew 4 people. 3500 pcs. were issued.
4. The Jagdpanther. German heavy ACS. Armament: 88 mm. gun, 71 caliber (barrel length 6776 mm.), 57 rounds, one machine gun MG-34 (loophole to the right of the gun). Guiding the gun horizontally – plus or minus eleven degrees. Booking: the forehead of the body 80 mm, the board 40 mm., The forehead of the felling 80 mm, the board 50 mm. Weight 45.5 tons. Crew of 5 people. Speed on the highway 46 km. h, cross-country 25 km. h, the power reserve, respectively, 210 km. and 140 km. Specific ground pressure 0.9 kg. see From 1944 to 1945, 415 units were produced on the basis of the Panther. The most advanced automatic control system in Germany. It can be assumed that (if one omits the arrogance inherent in the Nazis who refused to copy the T-34), along with the Soviet SU-85 similar to it, it can be a prototype of the future combat vehicles that connect the tank’s potential, ACS and BMP.
5. «The Royal Tiger» or «Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B «Tiger II». The height of the caterpillars in the front of the machine is just below the height of the adult male. The heaviest, mass-produced tank of all time and people, participating in the fighting – with a full load of 75 tons. More massive than him, only fired several times on the enemy, the self-propelled mortar «Karl» – 126 tons. Of the non-fought tanks by mass, it corresponds to the unfinished French twin-tower FCM F-1 – 145 tons, eight crew members and 185-ton German «Mauss» (six tankers, 200 mm armor) – Panzerkampfwagen VIII «Maus».
Armament: 88 mm. gun, 77—84 shells, two MG-34 machine guns, 26 mm. anti-personnel mortar. Reservations: the forehead of the tower 107 or 180 mm., Depending on the manufacturer, the side of the tower, 82 mm., The forehead of the body 120 mm., The board 82 mm. The roof of the tower and the shell – 40 mm. Speed along the highway is 38 km. h., Cross-country 13 km. h. The power reserve, respectively, is 150 km. and 70 km. Specific power 10 hp t. Ground pressure 1,02 kg. see Transporting a tank by rail, with the condition of changing tracks – is possible, but overcoming water obstacles – almost exclusively under water, outside bridges, using an air intake for the engine.
The effect of using the «Tiger-2» in battles was not great, in comparison with the existing excessive expectations. Most of these immobilized vehicles are abandoned by their crews. It is necessary to think, replacement of tracks «Tiger II» in the field is a very difficult task.
From 1944 to 1945, 489 Royal Tigers were produced.
On the chassis «Tiger 2» was also created a self-propelled artillery unit «Yagdtigr», 79 pieces. The caliber of the gun is 129 mm., The frontal armor is unthinkable 250 mm. This machine is represented in this photo.
5. STEN, surname. «Puncher», the most massive British submachine gun of the Second World War. The acronym (pronounced together abbreviation) is formed by the names of the main developers. The machine is a simplified version, in fact, the ersatz of the German (Hugo Schmeisser) MP28, quickly replenished the losses of small arms of the British army after the disaster at Dunkirk. The container is located horizontally (in which there is a peculiar chic) of the magazine 32 cartridges (in fact 28), the aiming range is 100 meters. Rate of fire 540 rounds per minute. Weight 2.95 – 3.27 kg. Disadvantages: overheating of the barrel, low reliability, inconvenience of using the «last chance» as a cold weapon in hand-to-hand combat, unsatisfactory balancing. Advantages: cheap and fast manufacturing. From 1941 to 1945, 4 million units were produced.
6. American self-loading rifle M1 Garand (Em-Ouen Garand), the main weapon of the US infantry of the times of World War II and the war in Korea. The recharging mechanism operates on the evacuation of the powder gases. The capacity of the holder (pack) is 8 cartridges, 7.62 × 63 mm. The aiming range is 550 m. Weight is 4.32 kg. 5, 4 million units were produced.
7. Soviet submachine gun system A. Sudayev (PPS). The fire mode is only automatic (as well as its analogue, the German «Schmeisser» MP-40). The magazine has a capacity of 35 cartridges 7.62 × 25 mm. Rate of fire 600 rounds per minute. Sighting range 200 m. Weight 3.2 kg. Only 2 million copies have been issued (in different countries). On the sum of combat qualities, PPS is considered the best submachine gun of the Second World War.
The Lvov-Sandomierz operation starts on July 13, 1944. The place of action practically coincides with that area – 300 kilometers west of Kiev, where three years ago the tank battle for Dubno-Lutsk-Brody was disastrous for the Red Army. The main idea is the encirclement of the German fascist troops, the liberation of Lviv. The forces of the parties: the Soviet Army – 1, 2 million people, 2,200 tanks, 2,800 aircraft. Wehrmacht, the Armed Forces of Hungary, the Ukrainian division of the Waffen SS «Galicia» – 0.9 million people, 900 tanks, 700 aircraft. By July 18, the German defense is breaking through in two places. Two armored armies (800 tanks and automatic control systems, plus auxiliary equipment and tank destroyers) are deployed in the breakthrough, which pass through 50—80 km. (already without ridiculous breakages) and close the ring of encirclement near the town of Brody. An isolated group of troops, eight divisions, 30,000 people are being destroyed on the ground by aircraft, artillery strikes and tank attacks, and 18,000 are surrendering.
In Lviv, the Poles raise uprising, unite with the advancing Soviet units, together, in a completely friendly way, cleanse the city of Germans. But, their idea is to make Lemberg again a Polish city, representatives of the USSR do not find any understanding. Part of the leadership of the local Army Krajowa is arrested, does not agree to cooperation, and is sent to Siberia.
The troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front leave without delay to the territory of Poland, to the Vistula River and (by crossing it on a low-water bridge and using ferries) free Sandomierz. Here they, in particular, meet with the battalion of the new tanks «Royal Tiger» (20 units), seize three of them – with broken caterpillars, 13 – in fully serviceable condition (they complete their own advanced units). Having liberated a few more Polish cities, August 15, considerably stretched their supply lines, Soviet troops stop the offensive. Losses of the USSR – 65 thousand people irrevocably, Germany-Hungary-Ukrainian Nazis 54 thousand people, and 32 thousand prisoners, as well as almost all the tanks and aircraft available at the beginning of the offensive.
The Iasi-Kishinev
