Russian tank radio

[Admiraal]

What kind of tank radio's did the Russians use?
I might have found one.

I found it at the corner of a small forrest in Germany together with 4 and a half burned out Russian tank MG magazines (those big fat ones), a blown up Russian tank shell, burned ammo, allot of big and small scrap metal parts and a used German Panzer faust.

(Ofcourse i didn't take the ammo with me).

I can post a picture of it, but if anyone can give me some radio names i can look on google for it.

[Taranov]

Better to show pic

[NickG]

Wasn't one of the issues with Russian armor, that they were not equipped with radios? (the majority at least)
So they could not even warn each other and suffered numerous losses because of this deficiancy...

[Admiraal]

Ofcourse it can be anything, but with all those other "tank" finds i thought it could be some sort of tank radio.
There isn't that much left of it, funny thing was that i found a burned out Ppsh bullet in it while cleaning it, i've trown it away (the bullet i mean).

Here are some picture's:




Oh yea there even was an ID disk on the bottom:

[RTY]

Wasn't one of the issues with Russian armor, that they were not equipped with radios? So they could not even warn each other and suffered numerous losses because of this deficiancy...

Also russian tanks had no useless engine and gearbox - they were powered by two polar bears...

[NickG]

Also russian tanks had no useless engine and gearbox - they were powered by two polar bears...

Does PETA know about this? Just kidding...

I read this several times in German veteran published books on the war commenting that that the majority of T34's (perhaps except command vehicles) lacked communication equipment to talk to each other and had to rely on hand signals... I read that!
More on that deficiancy here! (it states "During WW II, Russian armour units did not have a radio in each tank as did the Germans and Americans"

http://www.armyradio.co.uk/arsc/cust...cle_Radios.htm

[Yuri D.]

At the beginning of the war, the Soviets only used radios in the command T-34/76 tanks. The orders for the other tanks were to follow the command tank and do as he did. The Germans learned this and started knocking out the tank with the antenna. Once this tank was knocked out, the other tanks were cut off from their unit. The Soviets learned quickly and equipped all of their tanks with transceivers. By 1942, many more Soviet tanks had transceivers (not just the command tanks). Most photos of T-34/85 tanks that I have seen have an antenna. By the way, the very early Soviet T-28 tanks were equipped with radios, which was very advanced for its time, as was Soviet tank technology on the whole. Remember, the Soviets embraced the Christie suspension first, after the US rejected it.

The Germans of course were the first to employ radios as a part of an integrated command and control system in tank warfare, but were not the first ones to put radios into a tank. The first tank radios were used in WWI in a M1917 Renault Tractor tank and in a British Mark IV tank. (someone please correct me on this one if inaccurate).

Yuri