Teletank

Soviet T T-26 Teletank of the 217th Tank Battalion of the 30th Tank Brigade of the Red Army, February 1940

Teletanks (short: TT ) were unmanned, radio- controlled tanks in the Soviet Union that were manufactured between the 1930s and the early 1940s and used by the Red Army .

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A teletank was remotely controlled from a command or control tank with a radio range of 500 to 1500 meters. Some Tele tanks were in Finnish Soviet war used and then finally two Teletank- tank battalions on the Eastern Front of World War II .

Teletanks were armed with the DP infantry machine gun , flamethrowers and sometimes with a 200-700 kg bomb with a time fuse to blow up enemy bunkers . They were also designed so that they could use chemical weapons , but these were never used. Some specimens had smoke throwing systems .

The standard tactic was for the command tank to stand as far as possible behind the teletank it controlled when it had contact with the enemy. When a teletank was in danger of a captured tank to be, had the tank crew of the tank command to command him with the cannon to destroy, so he did not fall into enemy hands. When Teletanks were not in active use at the front, they were driven manually by a crew.

Models

Tank models that served as the basis for Teletanks:

• T-18
• T-26
• T-38
• BT-5
• BT-7

See also

• Telerobotics
• Goliath (tank)
• Borgward IV
• Soviet military vehicles of World War II

Web links

• What is a teletank? (Russian)
• Everything about Teletanks (Russian)
• Means of communication in battlefield (Russian)
• First Soviet tanks (Russian)
• 70th anniversary of the Ulianovsk Higher Engineering School (Russian)