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T-42 | |
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Type | Super-heavy tank |
Place of origin | Soviet Union |
Service history | |
In service | Not put into service |
Production history | |
Designer | Edward Grote |
Designed | 1930–1932 |
No. built | 0 |
Specifications (T-44A) | |
Mass | 101.6 tonnes (112 short tons; 100 long tons) |
Length | N/A |
Width | N/A |
Height | N/A |
Crew | 14-15 |
Armour | 90 mm (3.5 in) front armour |
Main armament | 107 mm M1910/30 field gun |
Secondary armament | 2 x 45 mm M1932/38 (20K) tank guns 4-5 x 7.62 mm DTM machine gun |
Engine | 2x Diesel 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) total |
Power/weight | 19.7 hp/t (20.0 hp/LT; 17.9 hp/ST) |
Maximum speed | 20–27 km/h (12–17 mph) on road |
The T-42 (also known as the TG-V) was a Soviet super-heavy tank project of the interwar period. It was developed in 1932 by the OKB-5 design bureau at Bolshevik Plant no. 232 under the direction of a German engineer-designer Edward Grote . Development did not advance past the stage of construction drawings and scale models. The design was passed over in favour of the T-35 project which was already at the prototype stage.