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Title: Historical question about the turrets of russian tanks...
Post by: bopokippo on February 17, 2012, 04:30:05 PM: just wondering, for the following tanks

T-34/76
T-34/85
KV-1
IS-2

Which of these had a manual turret turning system? I'm guessing they all would, but could someone please elaborate on how it would work? Would there be like a winch that you keep spinning or something? Thanks
Title: Re: Historical question about the turrets of russian tanks...
Post by: stealthattack1 on February 17, 2012, 06:00:34 PM: i wouldnt know.
Title: Re: Historical question about the turrets of russian tanks...
Post by: Jeff 'Robotnik' W. on February 22, 2012, 03:56:37 AM: they all had electrical turret traverse systems, but also had manual traverse to fine tune aim and in case the electrical traverse failed
Title: Re: Historical question about the turrets of russian tanks...
Post by: ACHTUNG PANZER on February 22, 2012, 08:09:15 AM: Well from what I know is that only the tiger tank had a turret that could move on it's own
Title: Re: Historical question about the turrets of russian tanks...
Post by: Jeff 'Robotnik' W. on February 24, 2012, 12:33:30 AM: nope, multiple tanks had power traverse, though the tiger was somewhat unique in that its turret was powered hydraulically and not electrically
Title: Re: Historical question about the turrets of russian tanks...
Post by: bopokippo on March 08, 2012, 05:23:20 AM: Wait, I thought T-34s in WWII had a manual turret traverse. It says on wikipedia that the 1945 late version was updated with an electric traverse.