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InterwarMediumMedium TankPrototypeSoviet Union

T-29

In service 1934 - 1937

Prototype only. A wheel-cum-track version of the T-28 multi-turret medium, tested and rejected as too fragile.

Built byKirov Factory (Leningrad)

Photograph pending. No clearly licensed photograph of this vehicle was found.

Development history

Designed by the Koshkin and Tsyganov schools of convertible drive, the T-29 married the T-28 three-turret superstructure to a Christie-derived wheeled running gear. Two vehicles ran trials to 1937; the drive train could not take the weight and the work fed instead into the T-34 line.

Variants

One canonical record, 2 recorded variants.

  1. T-29-4

    1934

    Early prototype with riveted superstructure

  2. T-29-5

    1935

    Welded hull, revised transmission for the convertible drive