Russian Tanks Show Up for Parade, Proceed To Destroy City Streets
Officials have banned army tanks from parades in the U.S. for more than half a century, and new pictures from Russia make it painfully clear why. The photos, from preparations for the country's annual V-E day military parade, show a tank’s treads chewing up a Moscow street during a parade rehearsal.
Russian blogger and armor enthusiast Yuri Pasholok uploaded pictures of the T-34/85 tank to his blog. The tank was part of a contingent of military vehicles brought to Moscow as part of the 2020 V-E Day commemoration, an event that typically involves a parade of military tanks, armored vehicles, and aircraft. The parade is being held later than usual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The T-34/85 medium tank was an improved version of the original Soviet T-34 tank. The T-34/85 featured a larger 85-millimeter gun, improved armor, and a cupola for the tank commander, giving him 360-degree protected vision. More than 17,000 tanks were produced worldwide, many serving well into the 1970s and 1980s. The main Soviet tank of World War II, the tank played a key role in the destruction of Nazi Germany.
The T-34/85 weighs 32 tons fully loaded. Like all tanks, the T-34 uses tracks instead of wheels to give the vehicle better cross-country performance and to spread the tank’s weight over a wider area, giving it lower ground pressure per square inch than a wheeled vehicle. Tracks are meant to gain traction in whatever surface lies underneath the tank and then exert huge amounts of torque that propel the tank forward.
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