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tank cannon could penetrate the armour only in vulnerable spots and at very close distances (below 200m).” For the first time in the Eastern campaign we faced a new type of battle machine, it was hard to miss the complete superiority of a 55 ton walking tank….” But some of them were mentioned in German battle reports.įrom the report of Wehrmacht’s 14th tank division: All of the aforementioned vehicles were deployed in the western military districts but by the beginning of the war, the machines were not fully mastered by the crews - also there was a lack of spare parts for repairs that resulted from a large amount of electrical failures In the course of the near-border battle in summer of 1941, all completed ST-1’s were lost. The large “dead zone” of the main armament and limited range of vision were the main weaknesses. A successful combat deployment convinced even the most pessimistic military officials of the necessity to put ST-1 into mass production.Īccording to different sources by June of 1941 from 20 to 30 ST-1’s were built. Finnish 37mm cannons could not penetrate the battle compartment’s armour and Molotov cocktails were also useless due the high profile of the machine. 152mm howitzer allowed to destroy concrete pill-boxes with a minimal ammo expenditure. Even more so, thanks to it unique looks, it would spread fear and panic in enemy infantry ranks. Not only did it have an extremely high cross-country ability, the ST-1 also was almost immune to anti-tank hedgehogs and mines. Later, the ST-1 was changed to KV in the documents for disinformation purposes.

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ST-1, along with new trial tanks the SMK and the T-100 had been sent to the front.

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104, (newly designated ST-1) was delivered to Moscow to be shown to members of the Soviet government and Red Army command. The demonstration of the new battle machine highly impressed the Soviet political and military leadership, and therefore it was decided to build a series of machines for operational trials. The new vehicles went through a baptism of fire during the Soviet-Finnish war. In September 1939 after most of the defects had been eliminated, the development prototype obj.

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The following defects found:Ī) Replacement of the diesel engine and the electrical generator due to overheating and low oil pressure.ī) Overheating of the main clutch mechanism.Ĭ) Unstable operation in the power drives of the side turrets.ĭ) High temperature in the battle compartment.Į) Unsatisfactory performance of gyro stabilization mechanisms.“

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During this period a considerable number of flaws were detected, these issues were eliminated as the tests proceeded.Ĭentral Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation “Head armour command of the Red army Military representative’s report on the execution of order for object 104”: In spite of the complexity of the task the construction bureau of the factory managed to cope with the new design and the new battle machine (object 104 in the factory numeration) reached the factory testing stage which lasted for a year. Additional weapons were a 45mm cannon, a high-calibre AA machine gun and a 20mm tank cannon.

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In April 1937, Armour Command of the Red Army sent the military operational requirements to Factory #184, these were the requirements for the development of “an armoured machine of a new type” with a maximum mass of 50 tons, protected by at least 60mm of armour and the option to install different weapon types. Depending on the task of the battle machine, a 107mm cannon, a 122mm howitzer or 152mm howitzer could be mounted. This is what the ST-1 was about - the first and the only model of a walking tank. The first world war, which was also called “the trench war”, showed an inefficiency in the usual infantry breakthrough and required the creation of an absolutely new type of ground vehicle - something that could cross destroyed roads and ground torn apart from explosions.

Picture taken shortly after the first prototype trials.ĭevelopment of the ST-1 started even before the start of World War II. Two 'Object 104' (later called ST-1) participating in field training exercises.