Name: Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: , T-34-85 Episode 2
Uploaded: 2019-04-08T10:53:58.000Z
Duration: 25 min 35 s
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Welcome back! T-34-85 Part 2: Turret and Interior!

Now the turret, of course, big difference between it

and the earlier model to accommodate the larger gun,

This is great, the TC could spend his time commanding the tank

Now initially T-35-85 turrets had about 75mm of armour on the front

However, later models, by the end of 1944,

you are starting to look at 90mm at the front

although the roof was a simple sheet of metal

It's a fixed cupola, the vision ports are fixed,

However, he can rotate the roof with the hatch.

So by lifting up the lever here, it's on rollers,

Now the hatch itself, after I lock this back into place.

Very simple, one piece, it's locked in place by a simple locking latch

and there is a torsion bar spring to help lift it open.

Now the Commander's seat, is not really the most comfortable

it's actually a good incentive to fight with your head out.

Now for reasons which elude me it seems the TC has a choice

The first one is below the gunner's seat.

you have to lift up the gunner's seat to give it room

and then let the gunner's seat fold down.

Now with this set of food pedals he's aiming pretty much

The downside though is that with his knees lower down,

he's more of a risk of hitting the gunner in the back.

which is part of the gunner's seat itself,

the advantage is now my knees have been lifted up not quite

The downside though is that now my knees are angled over at forty degrees,

and it doesn't strike me as being particularly comfortable

He's got five of these individual vision points around here,

which, if it looks like you're taking fire,

you can actually pull down and it will protect the port.

To his front here he has a binocular or unity sight,

and, in theory, traverse, although this one is a little bit stiff.

No TC's override, he's got some stowage facilities

around him so it looks like a little bit sparse

but otherwise his job is, quite simply, command the tank.

Probably a nice relief for T-34 Commanders

Other than that, the only thing I can really say is that if I've got no gunner,

and I can still control the turret and get her around.

Not really a three man crew because you've got no sight

The better way to control the gun, of course,

is from the gunner's seat, so that's where I'll go next.

So this is an example of elegance in operation:

it's a crude tank but it can also be elegant.

'Well, where is the control for the powered traverse'

because, obviously you've got manual traverse,

Because, ordinarily, there would be another set of controls.

All you do is move the manual control to the top left,

pull out the handle and now you're in a powered traverse mode.

It's not precise, but it's a lot faster than cranking.

again note how there's momentum in the turret,

it continues to spin even after I go back to the zero position.

So this is a case of traversing quickly to get roughly on target.

More or less straight, then you go back to manual mode,

and that's how you conduct your final lay and service the target that way.

And again, you saw how fast this thing spins, being a loader,

holding that big 85mm shell, while the turret spins,

because you don't control it, you want to pay attention.

To engage the target the gunner is supposed to have a TSh-15 sight.

It did have an electric light bulb so you could have an illuminated reticle

and by January of 1945 it came with a heater to prevent it from fogging.

This primary toy is the S-53 85mm cannon.

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Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: , T-34-85 Episode 2

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