Osprey - BT Fast Tank: The Red Army's Cavalry Tank 1931-45 Sale dedication

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and those were actively employed to fulfil reconnaissance

or a project

Armed with the new Panther tank

which was first deployed into combat during the Battle of Kursk in 1943

Osprey - BT Fast Tank: The Red Army's Cavalry Tank 1931-45 Sale dedicationBy Steven J Zaloga Paperback Steven J Zaloga details the story of the design and development history of the BT fast tank. When the Red Army needed to mechanise its cavalry branch in the 1930s, the BT fast tank was its solution. Based on the American Christie high speed tank, the Red Army began a program to adapt the design to its own needs. Early versions were mechanically unreliable but by the mid 1930s, the BT 5 emerged, armed with an excellent dual