The Myth of the Disposable T-34

You often hear that the T-34 was a disposable tank that was never intended to survive for very long on the battlefield, so there was no reason to make it particularly reliable, but how true is that really? I run through the numbers to compare where the Red Army wanted its T-34 tanks to be in terms of reliability and how far the tank could actually be expected to travel.
No T-34s were harmed in the making of this video.

00:00 Intro
1:14 Warsaw to Berlin in One Tank
2:14 Lifespan of early T-34 tanks
3:24 What the Red Army wanted
4:29 The weakest link
5:20 Lifespan of wheels
6:30 Lifespan of the gearbox
7:09 Lifespan of the V-2 engine
10:58 Reliability in the Soviet-Japanese War of 1945


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