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delete1 -> The T-34 tank: 80 years old and still spoiling for a fight (9/25/2015 1:05:27 AM)
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The T-34 tank: 80 years old and still spoiling for a fight.
For successive generations, the T-34 became an icon of the Soviet victory in WWII. Driving straight off the cobblestones of Red Square to halt the Nazi advance outside Moscow in 1941, the legendary war machine has seldom rested since.
When Soviet T-34s rolled into Berlin in 1945, the battle tank’s fighting days might have seemed nearly over. But the "nut", as crews called it because of its hexagonal turret shape, was only just beginning its odyssey through the world’s conflicts. Over five more decades, the war machine would clatter across the Egyptian sands, the Cuban jungle, the savannah of Angola and far beyond.
Today it can still be found in arsenals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vietnam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Yemen, North Korea, the Republic of Congo, Cuba, Laos, Mali and Namibia.
http://m.rbth.com/defence/2014/07/07/the_t-34_tank_80_years_old_and_still_spoiling_for_a_fight_37987.html
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