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Master of survival in the Soviet heavy tank T-10. Battle - Mines

Historical note. In the late 40-ies with heavy tanks in the Soviet Army was quite a strange situation. The armament was three type IP-2, IP-3 and IP-4, each of which could not be regarded as the main heavy machines for the future. In this context, in late 1948, gbtu issued technical specification for a new car. The main requirement was to limit combat weight of no more than 50 T. the Developer was determined to be KB Chelyabinsk plant of the Ministry of transport engineering of the USSR. Chief designer responsible for the object 730 (such designation received the draft of the new tank), has appointed Joseph Kotin. Officially, the car was called is-8. In April 1949 was the technical design was developed. Now it is unknown who was behind the idea, but object 730 was a direct development of the line tank is-3. Hull shape, particularly the characteristic "pike nose", cast tower of streamlined-shape caused direct Association with the is-3. In may for developing the basic functional solutions has built a wooden life-size model, and then in the experimental shop began production of the first prototype of the is-8. After tests it was found that in General, the machine satisfied the requirement document, and a decision was made on the initial batch of 10 tanks. They were still two phases of production tests in 1949, then in April — may 1950 NIBT on the ground in Kubinka near Moscow hosted the state tests. According to their results, the State Commission recommended to start serial production of the is-8, but with modifications. In March 1953 died Joseph Stalin, after which the acronym "IP" has sunk into oblivion. At the end of the year the tank was adopted by the Soviet Army under the designation T-10. In 1956 adopted adopted a modification of the T-10A. In the modification the gun was installed stabilizer, replaced the sight and the gun mask. In 1957 was adopted by the new modification of the T-10B (object 730Б). The main difference is the use of two-plane stabilizer, PUOT-2 "Thunder" and the sight T2S-29-14. The rest of the tank was similar to the T-10A. Soon followed more serious modernization. In KB the Permian plant number 172 has created a new 122mm gun M-62-T2 (2А17) with improved ballistic performance.The initial velocity armor-piercing projectile was 950 m/s. a Cannon equipped plane stabilizer 2Э12 "Rain" and the sight T2S-29-14. (In 1955, the prototype of this gun was mounted on the experimental object 264, and later on the object of 265 experienced a weapon with improved accuracy characteristics.) In 50-ies and 60-ies, as entering the army increasing the number of tanks T-10 and then the T-10A, T-10B and T-10M began the formation of heavy armored divisions the group of Soviet forces in Germany were two such compounds 13 and 25 guards heavy tank division. "Tens" for export not been delivered and the fighting was not used. Except for maneuvers, the only major operation, which have been part of the T-10M, is "operation Danube" - the invasion of the Warsaw Pact in Czechoslovakia in 1968. In 1966 production of the T-10M was stopped. According to Western reports, there were about 8000 T-10 all modifications. If this is true, it can be considered the most massive heavy tank in the history of tank development. In subsequent years, as the influx of troops in modern combat vehicles, tanks T-10, T-10A, T-10B and T-10M were transferred to parks for long-term storage, and partially went to a breaker. Formally, they were withdrawn from service Russian Army in 1993, that is, 40 years later after adopting.