Full Name | |
Class | Light Vehicle |
Movement | 5 |
Armor Value | 1 |
Vs Infantry (RNG / FPR) | 5/3 |
Vs Vehicle (RNG / FPR) | 3/2 |
Traits | |
Period | 1933-1945 |
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This 3.2-tonne Soviet light tank was the first series of mass-produced fully amphibious tanks in the world, becoming operational in 1933. Based on the British Carden-Loyd and Vickers tankette designs, it featured a 7.62mm DT-29 machine gun in a rotating turret offset to the right. With a crew of two, it could achieve a maximum land speed of 22 mph. The Red Army used T-37As for communications, reconnaissance, and infantry support. Large numbers of the type participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) and in the Winter War against Finland (1939-1940). T-37As faced invading German forces at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, but most of them were lost quickly facing far superior enemy armor. Surviving tanks fought on the front lines until 1944, and the Soviets continued using them in training and auxiliary defense until the end of World War II. Soviet Factory No. 37 in Moscow produced about 1,200 from 1933 to 1936.