This medium three-turret T28 russian tank is one of the few tanks of this type of post-disaster of the first months of the war, when almost all such tanks have been lost. The Eastern Front, Second World War.
Now the T28 russian tank takes part in the defense of Leningrad city during Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (1941-1945).
Location: Leningrad region, USSR
Time taken: December 1941
T28 russian tank is a three-turreted Soviet medium tank of the interwar period. Developed in 1930-1932 by engineers of the VOAO tank and tractor design bureau under the general supervision of S. A. Ginzburg. The T-28 is the first medium tank in the USSR put into mass production. In the period from 1933 to 1940, the Leningrad Kirov Plant produced 503 copies of the T-28.
The T-28 was a classic three-turreted medium tank with cannon-machine-gun armament and bulletproof armor, and was intended to support infantry and qualitatively reinforce rifle and tank formations when breaking through enemy fortified positions. At the time of its creation, it was the strongest medium tank in the world.
Since 1933, the T28 russian tank entered service with the heavy tank brigades of the Red Army, allocated from 1936 to the reserve of the High Command. As part of the RTBR RGK, T-28 tanks were used in the Polish campaign of the Red Army and the Winter War, where they showed very high combat qualities. However, the armor protection of tanks following the results of the battles on the Karelian Isthmus was considered insufficient, so some of the tanks were equipped with additional shielding. By the middle of 1941, the T-28 was obsolete, but in terms of its tactical and technical characteristics it still surpassed almost all models of tanks that were at the disposal of the Wehrmacht. As part of the tank brigades of the mechanized corps of the Red Army, the T-28 took part in the battles of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, but most of the tanks were lost in its first months, mainly due to technical malfunctions. The last combat use of the T-28 by units of the Red Army was recorded in 1944
The troops of Finland used captured T28 russian tank as armament of the army, they were used by them until 1954.