![]() ![]() The T-34 was also small for a medium class tank and comparibaly light. The tank's main advantage was its simple design which made it easy to mass-produce and repair. The mantlet was also round in contrast to the more square mantlets of later models. The Model 1940, the first T-34 production variant, was armed with the L-11 76.2 mm gun, which was considerably shorter than the subsequent F-34 76.2 mm main gun of the 1941 and later models. The T-34 was developed during the 1936-37 period, the prototype was completed in early 1939, and in September 1940 T-34 was put into series production mounting a 76 mm gun. The T-34 was a technologically innovative design which addressed the short-comings of the earlier BT series of wheel/track tank. Most informed military historians consider the T-34 tank, not the atomic bomb, as the "weapon that won the Second World War." At the beginning of the Soviet involvement of the war (see Eastern Front of World War II), it was the most advanced tank in the world. The T-34 was a Soviet tank during World War II. ![]()
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