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Each had a main turret with a 76.2 mm gun on a high ring and in front of it a smaller, lower turret with a 45 mm gun. This design was called KV tank, after Stalin’s personal friend Klimenti Voroshilov, who was War Minister at the time.īasically T-100 and SMK were similar in appearance. Kotin and his team were still disturbed by the archaic appearance of the tank with two turrets and secured Stalin’s permission to develop another version of the SMK tank with only one turret.
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The proposals were then presented at a special meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in August 1938, where they were approved. Kotin’s presentation was critical vs the three-turret concept, which provoked Stalin to go to one of the models and demolish one of the smaller turrets and exclaim: ‘Why should a tank become a department store?’Īfter this presentation, both offices revised the plans into a tank with only two turrets. In May 1938, at a special session of the Soviet Defence Council, the designs of the OKMO team, known as the T-100 ‘Sotka’, and the SMK (for S M Kirow) of the Kotin development team were presented. The specification for the heavy tank required a ‘anti-tank gun destroyer’ with 5 turrets (!) and sufficient armor to withstand the 37mm anti-tank gun at any distance and the 76.2 mm gun at distances over 1,300 yards (1,200 meters).īoth teams were against the idea of building a tank with 5 turrets, so the number was reduced to three before the serious work began. His team included the veteran Russian tank designer, N Tsiets, who was already responsible for the T-28 and T-35 heavy tanks, and several talented younger engineers such as N Dukhov, A Yermolayev and N Shashmurin. Kotin had been one of Tukhachevsky’s protégés, but had survived the purges and was the head of the development office of the Academy of Motorization and Mechanization (AMM) in Moscow before his new assignment in Leningrad.
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One of them was Barykov’s OKMO at the tank factory Zavod No 185 in Leningrad as well as a new team which was leaded by Lieutenant Colonel Zh Kotin in the Kirowskiy factory also located in Leningrad.
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Since 1938 this new heavy tank has been developed by two competing teams.
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