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T-34 F-34 Cannon

54.3k ElGatoVolador  7.7 years ago
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For my upcoming build...
VTOL to turn turret
Trim for gun elevation (15 Degrees)
It has the BR-350/BR-350A armour-piercing high explosive (APHE) Round, here are the specs
weight (kg) 6.3
muzzle velocity (m/s) 612
penetration at 500 m (mm) 62
penetration at 1,000 m (mm) 56

The F-34 was designed before the start of World War II by P. Muraviev of Vasiliy Grabin's design bureau at Factory No. 92 in Gorky. The gun was superior to both contemporary 76.2 mm guns, Gorky's F-32 and the Leningrad Kirov Factory's L-11, but it was the latter that had already been approved for the new T-34 medium tank. The initial T-34 Model 1940 with L-11 was in production when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

The F-34 was ready for production, but Marshal Grigory Kulik's high-handed interference with tank appropriation had made the relevant bureaucrats too frightened to approve the better gun. Grabin and the director of the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (KhPZ), the centre of T-34 production, conspired to produce the F-34 anyway, and began to install the gun on new tanks. The new T-34 Model 1941 tanks, which were issued mostly to company and platoon commanders, were immensely popular with their crews. Letters from tank units reached Stalin's State Defence Committee (GKO), which officially authorized production.

Also, due to Kulik's meddling, the KV-1 heavy tank model 1940 had ended up mounting Grabin's older F-32 gun, making it more poorly armed than the T-34 medium tank. Chief Designer of Tanks Joseph Kotin convinced the GKO to allow the use of the F-34 gun on the KV-1 heavy tank Model 1941. The ZiS-5 was a version of the gun designed to better fit the KV-1's turret.

In 1943, the thick armor of the new German Tiger and Panther tanks had rendered the F-34 gun obsolete, and experiments were conducted to find a replacement. The better-penetrating 57 mm ZiS-2 high velocity antitank gun was installed on some T-34/57 tanks, but the smaller-bored gun couldn't fire an adequate high explosive round for general use. A more heavily armoured T-34 prototype was built, the T-43, but it was still vulnerable to the Tiger's 88, and its mobility suffered too much from the weight of armour.

In the end, the F-34 was replaced by the D-5T and ZiS-S-53 85 mm calibre guns on the T-34-85 tank, and by 122mm and 152 mm guns in the new IS-2 heavy tanks and in the Soviets' casemate-type, turretless tank destroyers.

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 3.1ft (1.0m)
  • Length 11.0ft (3.4m)
  • Height 2.7ft (0.8m)
  • Empty Weight 2,010lbs (912kg)
  • Loaded Weight 2,010lbs (912kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 747.2lbs/ft2 (3,648.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 2.7ft2 (0.3m2)
  • Drag Points 563

Parts

  • Number of Parts 32
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 92
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    @VladCelTroll AXXAXAXAXAXAX all ok according to sekrit dukuments )))))

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    17.2k TemDesBur

    @ElGatoVolador I havn't got it yet, but im close

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    @TemDesBur Of course, they have more armor, I use the T-34 STZ right now, its a lot of fun to bounce shots from 17 pdr guns.

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    17.2k TemDesBur

    But they're or really a problem for the Crusader Mk III @ElGatoVolador

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    17.2k TemDesBur

    I hate versing the T34-E STZ in my Matilda @ElGatoVolador

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    @TemDesBur Yep War Thunder

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    17.2k TemDesBur

    war thunder!

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    @ElGatoVolador thanks

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    @volcanoerocket33 Sure, just give Credit to @ElGatoVolador, the roator that makes the turret spin is a little glitchy so watch out.

    7.7 years ago
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    Do you mind if I can use it on my tank I'm making

    7.7 years ago