The devil wears the "Truth." Part of 3
Now let's move on to the Soviet lungs tanks BT ("high-speed tanks"), inferior in mass in the Red Army on the eve of World War II only to the "brother" in class T-26. This time we can count on the "expert" assistance of Viktor Suvorov. He evaluates BT tanks solely by their engines (!): “In order not to be unfounded: the war was tank, and the engine was the heart of the tank. The Soviet BT-1932 tank, which entered service in 2, had an M-5 engine with 400 hp. The Germans managed to achieve this indicator only ten years later ”(p. 17); The "outdated" BT-7 had an engine with a capacity of 500 hp, while the most powerful foreign tank engine of that time (the author refers to the beginning of the Second World War), the German HL-120TRM, had only 300 hp. And the “obsolete” BT-7M had not just a heavy-duty engine, but the legendary high-speed tank diesel V-2. No country in the world could create such an engine until the end of the war, all our opponents and allies had to get by with carburetor engines, which is why their tanks burned like matches in a box ”(p. 18).
It is not clear who called BT-7 and BT-7М “obsolete” combat vehicles, because the corresponding “enemy” quotes are not given.
Rezun in one fell swoop "rejects" all tanks with carburetor engines. After all, they are “like matches”! And that means that he and the BT-7 tank "rejects", although in such an attitude he is allegedly "caught" by all the same "Marxist historians" ...
Of course, none of the "high-speed tanks" can not be called obsolete at the beginning of the Second World War, - in the technological and design plans, all of them were then revolutionary machines. Possessed excellent dynamic qualities, and only BT-2 could not "boast" with the power of cannon armament. But in terms of the totality of tactical and technical characteristics, the BT-7 of the 1937 model of the year and the BT-7М (diesel “seven”) should be considered really formidable at the beginning of the Second World War combat vehicles. The thickness of their frontal armor was 22 mm, along the sides - 13 mm. The security of their “predecessors” BT-2, BT-5 and BT-7 of the model 1935 of the year - 13 mm in the main armor plane.
20-mm automatic cannons, with which were armed German light tanks Pz. Kpfw. II, although incomparable in terms of armor penetration with guns on T-26 or BT-5, but still enough to fight most of the Soviet “lightweights”.
In general, the use of tanks by the aggressor must be considered inseparably from his tactics of “tank wedges”, when large armored forces were hit on narrow sections of the front, as a result, numerical advantage was achieved over the enemy. This tactic implied a breakthrough of the enemy’s defenses in several places, followed by his entourage by the units that reached the rear. "Teamwork" of the actions of enemy tank crews contributed to the widespread availability of radio stations on the "pantserniki." In the Red Army, at that time only command tanks were radioed (one tank out of ten).
And now let us devote time to the Soviet amphibious tanks T-37A and T-38, to which I promised to return. We follow, of course, the book "Suicide." Rezun writes: “Let's start with the lightest Soviet tank. It was called T-XNUMHA. Adopted by the Red Army on August 37 of the year 11. Weighed 1933 tons. Crew - 3,2 person. Reservations - bulletproof. Armament - one machine gun DT. Engine power - 2 HP Maximum speed - 40-36 km / h on the ground and 40 km / h afloat "; “T-6A was easy. But light does not mean bad. Does not mean retarded. T-XNUMHA - the world's first amphibious tank, adopted by the armed forces "(again, we are confronted with nameless, but entwined" Marxist historians "); “By the way, the German TI entered service a year later - in 37, the weight was almost the same - 37 tons, the crew was the same - 1934 man, the same bulletproof armor and machine guns. Only he couldn’t swim ”(all three quotes from page 3,5).
The author lied a little in his "comparison". The frontal and side armor of the T-37A tank had a thickness of 8 mm, while the Pz. I (Т-I - the Soviet designation) - 13 mm. The armament of the latter was not one machine gun, but two. The combat weight of the tank T-37А - 3,2 tons, Pz. IA - 5,4 tons. But the main thing is that the T-37A is a reconnaissance vehicle, not a combat one. Therefore, the Rezun's “comparison” is incorrect in general!
But Victor Suvorov can still be understood: the number of armored T-37A swimmers in the Red Army before the war was impressive (2225 units on January 1 1941 of the year), and therefore these cars must harmoniously fit into the Stalinist armored “rink” (23 the thousands of tanks we had then) prepared by the evil Bolsheviks for a bloody world tour. Fortunately, torn off by the "crusaders" ...
The T-37A tanks are presented in “Suicide” as “small toothed predators” (p. 98), and the fact that there are amphibious tanks in the USSR is for Rezun an undeniable “proof” of Stalin’s plans to conquer the world: “If we defend our land, if we are leading a holy defensive war, we do not really need amphibious tanks. We can do without them ”(p. 80); “... nowhere to swim in a defensive war. But if we are leading a holy war for world domination, for driving the entire population of the planet into concentration camps, barracks and labor armies, as Grandfather Marx taught, then the situation changes ”(on the same page).
Quotes from the works of Marx in support of this ad-libbing are not attached ... Typical liberal trampry ...
Viktor Suvorov tells us in plain text that amphibious tanks could only appear in the state that drools on the world map while simultaneously sharpening his big and scary knife. Who could do this, unlike others? That's right, kids - a butcher named the Soviet Union! “And in France there were no amphibious tanks. And in Britain (forgive me, Britain, do not be angry with the truth), floating tanks were not created either before the war or in the course ”(p. 79).
And I, by my naivety, thought that in London, the capital of the British Empire (by the way, in the middle of the 1930's, it reached its greatest size history), sat imperialists. But now I "saw the light": if the "mistress of the seas" had no floating tanks before either World War II or during it, then British imperialism is out of the question! In short, all those imperialists whom the Bolsheviks spoke of were not in principle! In addition to the Bolsheviks themselves.
To be continued ...
It is not clear who called BT-7 and BT-7М “obsolete” combat vehicles, because the corresponding “enemy” quotes are not given.
Rezun in one fell swoop "rejects" all tanks with carburetor engines. After all, they are “like matches”! And that means that he and the BT-7 tank "rejects", although in such an attitude he is allegedly "caught" by all the same "Marxist historians" ...
Of course, none of the "high-speed tanks" can not be called obsolete at the beginning of the Second World War, - in the technological and design plans, all of them were then revolutionary machines. Possessed excellent dynamic qualities, and only BT-2 could not "boast" with the power of cannon armament. But in terms of the totality of tactical and technical characteristics, the BT-7 of the 1937 model of the year and the BT-7М (diesel “seven”) should be considered really formidable at the beginning of the Second World War combat vehicles. The thickness of their frontal armor was 22 mm, along the sides - 13 mm. The security of their “predecessors” BT-2, BT-5 and BT-7 of the model 1935 of the year - 13 mm in the main armor plane.
20-mm automatic cannons, with which were armed German light tanks Pz. Kpfw. II, although incomparable in terms of armor penetration with guns on T-26 or BT-5, but still enough to fight most of the Soviet “lightweights”.
In general, the use of tanks by the aggressor must be considered inseparably from his tactics of “tank wedges”, when large armored forces were hit on narrow sections of the front, as a result, numerical advantage was achieved over the enemy. This tactic implied a breakthrough of the enemy’s defenses in several places, followed by his entourage by the units that reached the rear. "Teamwork" of the actions of enemy tank crews contributed to the widespread availability of radio stations on the "pantserniki." In the Red Army, at that time only command tanks were radioed (one tank out of ten).
And now let us devote time to the Soviet amphibious tanks T-37A and T-38, to which I promised to return. We follow, of course, the book "Suicide." Rezun writes: “Let's start with the lightest Soviet tank. It was called T-XNUMHA. Adopted by the Red Army on August 37 of the year 11. Weighed 1933 tons. Crew - 3,2 person. Reservations - bulletproof. Armament - one machine gun DT. Engine power - 2 HP Maximum speed - 40-36 km / h on the ground and 40 km / h afloat "; “T-6A was easy. But light does not mean bad. Does not mean retarded. T-XNUMHA - the world's first amphibious tank, adopted by the armed forces "(again, we are confronted with nameless, but entwined" Marxist historians "); “By the way, the German TI entered service a year later - in 37, the weight was almost the same - 37 tons, the crew was the same - 1934 man, the same bulletproof armor and machine guns. Only he couldn’t swim ”(all three quotes from page 3,5).
The author lied a little in his "comparison". The frontal and side armor of the T-37A tank had a thickness of 8 mm, while the Pz. I (Т-I - the Soviet designation) - 13 mm. The armament of the latter was not one machine gun, but two. The combat weight of the tank T-37А - 3,2 tons, Pz. IA - 5,4 tons. But the main thing is that the T-37A is a reconnaissance vehicle, not a combat one. Therefore, the Rezun's “comparison” is incorrect in general!
But Victor Suvorov can still be understood: the number of armored T-37A swimmers in the Red Army before the war was impressive (2225 units on January 1 1941 of the year), and therefore these cars must harmoniously fit into the Stalinist armored “rink” (23 the thousands of tanks we had then) prepared by the evil Bolsheviks for a bloody world tour. Fortunately, torn off by the "crusaders" ...
The T-37A tanks are presented in “Suicide” as “small toothed predators” (p. 98), and the fact that there are amphibious tanks in the USSR is for Rezun an undeniable “proof” of Stalin’s plans to conquer the world: “If we defend our land, if we are leading a holy defensive war, we do not really need amphibious tanks. We can do without them ”(p. 80); “... nowhere to swim in a defensive war. But if we are leading a holy war for world domination, for driving the entire population of the planet into concentration camps, barracks and labor armies, as Grandfather Marx taught, then the situation changes ”(on the same page).
Quotes from the works of Marx in support of this ad-libbing are not attached ... Typical liberal trampry ...
Viktor Suvorov tells us in plain text that amphibious tanks could only appear in the state that drools on the world map while simultaneously sharpening his big and scary knife. Who could do this, unlike others? That's right, kids - a butcher named the Soviet Union! “And in France there were no amphibious tanks. And in Britain (forgive me, Britain, do not be angry with the truth), floating tanks were not created either before the war or in the course ”(p. 79).
And I, by my naivety, thought that in London, the capital of the British Empire (by the way, in the middle of the 1930's, it reached its greatest size history), sat imperialists. But now I "saw the light": if the "mistress of the seas" had no floating tanks before either World War II or during it, then British imperialism is out of the question! In short, all those imperialists whom the Bolsheviks spoke of were not in principle! In addition to the Bolsheviks themselves.
To be continued ...
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