The project got into the Main Artillery Directorate, where its “tower” was compared with the allied tanks. The crew is six people, and the speed of planning is at the level of 10-15 km / h. The estimated weight of the "tower" was 46 tons. Inside was provided with electric lighting and ventilation. Since the length of the supporting surface of the undercarriage was large (6 m), she had to make the two extreme wheeled carts of the caterpillars rising, which, according to the author, would improve the turning ability of his car. On the roof were two machine-gun turrets. Two petrol engines for 180 HP each worked for each of its tracks. It was the same armored car on a tracked chassis and with weapons in the front. And so, what do you think, what did our military think about when they received this “project”?Īt the end of 1916, Second Lieutenant Drizhenko, who worked at the Admiralty Plant in Petrograd, offered “a self-propelled armored turret for an 8-inch howitzer” as another analogue of the “Mendeleev tank”. The armor of the car was supposed to be 20-30 mm, the crew was 60 people. The dimensions were assumed to be corresponding, but the armament was especially impressive: two 203-mm howitzers, two 152-mm guns, four 102-mm and eight 7,62-mm machine guns. Navrotsky proposed another tank weighing 192 tons.
Therefore, it is not surprising that this development has not left the drawing board.īy the way, in April, the 1917 of the year was already our compatriot mechanical engineer S. At the same time, the thickness of his armor was relatively small - only 6-18 mm, so she could not withstand hitting the shells of the German 77-mm field gun, and therefore there was no point in it! The weight was too big - 150 tons. was even more than the famous German tank A7V. The crew of the car had to consist of a 20 man, i.e.
The armament of the “monitor” consisted of two 152-mm naval guns, which were usually armed with cruisers and 10 batteries of Colt machineguns of the 1895 model of the year, of which four were located in two towers, and the other six were to shoot through the loopholes in the hull.
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