Wonderful post and astounding research. I’m excited to see that solid evidence surrounding it actually exists when that’s often not the case for many strange one-off tanks like this. Would love to see it in game!
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I am also surprised that most of the T-34-88’s service life record has been available on the Internet for years.
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I don’t think it’s a 88mm, it looks like a T-34-85 with a 85mm M1939 52-K
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Firstly, this does not look like 4.8 cm different. [(52-K (4,693 mm) vs S-53 (4,645 mm)]
Secondly, it aligned with its Soviet Unit Serving record. From 174 evacuation company to the 73rd Tank Battalion, which specific stated that they received a T-34-88.
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Well, a png over a picture is a really bad way to determine something, specially when talking about size, and judging by the lack of credible information about this tank in particular, it’s way more likely to be just a KS-1 or 52-K mounted on a T-34-85
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That pic is a confirmed fake. The suspension is completely untaxed.
If it was real, the T-34 in that pic will have the front of the chassis will be sagging massively due to how heavy and concentrated the weight is in relation to the rest of the vehicle
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@AspandaIV Oh, did I accidentally imply that I thought it real? My bad, I’m well aware it’s a photoshop, but I think it’s fun to acknowledge one of the original fakes that this vehicle is so infamous for.
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Should go to both Germany and USSR, just like the AMD Pak 50.
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We just need to judge by the length of its canon. Furthermore, according to “L.Dv.T. 1127”, both version of 8, 5/8,8 cm Flak M.39 (r) used a muzzle brake similar to that of 52-K
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I don’t play Germany but still this discover is very cool +1.
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While the Flak had a muzzle brake, this isnt the flak.
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World of Tanks was right all along, what I find funny that the T-34-88 on there was able to train Soviet and German crews.
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99% of WoT Devs quit before thier tanks become real
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twice the profit
Oh my God its actually real
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Nah, it goes “twice the tank, double the gold!”
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The T34-75 has a new brother lol
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They just put the Tiger canon and gun shield into a T-34-85 model. They based their version on a fictional version created by a German modeller.
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I’m aware, it’s roughly correct, though they took freedoms into creating a cool model.
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