Tank Soviet Army

After the end of World War II, the presidentUSA Harry Truman thought that the Soviet army could continue its offensive and conquer all of Europe. Measures were taken to build up the military potential, besides, successfully conducted tests of the atomic bomb led to the beginning of a new war - Cold. The Soviet army during the Cold War was the best in the whole world. Its commanders and soldiers had a huge combat experience behind their shoulders, an excellent school was trained to train specialists in all branches of the armed forces.

The Soviet Union's growing military mightignored further, as it was before the Second World War. In response, the United States developed a plan for a preemptive nuclear strike, which was intended to inflict thousands of long-range American bombers. Although the Soviet Union already possessed nuclear weapons, it still did not have such a large number of heavy aircraft to strike back. The decision was found, the Soviet army began to build up a "steel fist" - a huge number of tanks capable of fighting in radiation-contaminated areas, they had to walk the steel rink around Europe in the event of a nuclear strike.

To develop a strategic bomberIt takes decades, and the tank is created within two to three years. In the post-war period, the country had accumulated a great deal of experience in the production of tanks, Soviet industry could stamp them with hundreds. An adequate response to the American bomb shower was to become a tank armada. The Soviet army began to be equipped with new T-55 tanks, they were able to fight even on the contaminated terrain. Installed on the tank system of ventilation created inside the machine an excessive pressure, which tightly blocked penetration into the radioactive dust.

The next round of development of tank troops of the USSRwas the creation of the main tank T-64. This machine was formed from scratch. It was used the latest developments of the time, including a laser rangefinder and automatic loading. The frontal armor of the tank could not penetrate the guns of American and English machines of the same type. All subsequent tanks created in the USSR, in essence, are a deep modernization of the T-64.

In the concept of the development of tanks of the USSR and the United Statesa huge difference. If the Americans and European countries focused on increasing the thickness of armor and improving the working conditions for the crew, the Soviet army received the simplest machines, the production of which can easily be put on stream. For example, the top of the American tank building M1A2 Abrams is so complicated in repair and maintenance that the slightest breakdown leads to the sending of the tank to the deep rear, and on the Russian tank it is possible to repair almost any level of complexity in the field.

The Ministry of Defense of the USSR adopted variousstrategy, new kinds of troops and equipment appeared, planes and missiles were improved. However, the tank was, as it was, and remained a symbol of what the Soviet army was. The photo of the first main Soviet T-64 tank shows the might of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and now Russia.