Soviet engineering bridge tank IT-28 during military trials at the NIBT training ground in Kubinka (Moscow region), front view with a laid bridge. The armament of the IT-28 is two machine guns mounted on the frontal plates of the conning tower.
IT-28 is engineering bridge tank (tank bridge-layer) of the interwar period. It was developed in 1936-1940 on the chassis of the T-28 medium tank. The only prototype of the IT-28, built in 1940, passed field tests, but was not accepted for mass production.
Sources of information about IT-28 photos:
- army.lv
- Kolomiets M.V., Medium tank T-28. Stalin’s three-headed monster – M .: Yauza, Strategy KM, EKSIMO, 2007 .– 112 p.
Location: Kubinka, Moscow region, USSR
Photo time: June 1940