The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

T34 tanks are produced in large numbers. Whether it is a "small head" with a 76mm gun or a "big head" with an 85mm gun, it is all five figures!

Two plus one, the production quantity is very likely to be the world's largest in the history of tank production, and the number of Sherman tanks of the Yankees can be compared with it.

It produces much more. After the Second World War, half of the earth was exported. Not to mention the preservation in museums of various countries, and many of them are still serving in the military.

Now backward and backward, but it is true!

African black buddies have many T34/85s in use, and the largest country in the universe also has a small amount of service, even in Europe. In recent years, T34s are still killing on the Balkan Peninsula.

Zhang Nan had a T34 before, but the military museum can't be without it. It's all the kind of running and shooting, and it has both big and small heads.

but!

T34 is actually mass-produced in three large models, but the third mass-produced quantity is small.

When it was first mass-produced, it was much earlier than the T34/85, slightly later than the "little head" with the 76mm gun, and the total output was less than 300.

It's the guy in front of me with more than half of the car body dug out, the T34/57, the tank gun looks thin, long, and conspicuous in terms of overall proportions, like a long needle!

The Soviet Magic Needle, a completely praiseworthy nickname: This tank gun with a ridiculously large ratio of multiple diameters, reaching 73 is amazing!

The 76mm gun has a larger caliber than it, right?

The volume of the shell is even larger, but the armor-piercing performance is not comparable to it. The famous saying "caliber represents justice" has a problem with it.

This 57mm tank gun fired armor-piercing projectiles with a muzzle velocity of over 1100 meters. In 41 years of its birth, it could easily kill all other tanks in the world at a normal combat distance!

Even if the terrifying Tiger tank appeared on the Soviet-German battlefield in 43 years, this small caliber cannon can penetrate the frontal armor of the Tiger tank at the usual combat distance!

Not to mention the "little head", even the 85mm tank gun on the "big head" T34, which was mass-produced only in 44 years, could not reach its armor-piercing performance indicators.

but!

It is too expensive, the craftsmanship requirements are too high, and it is too difficult to make!

The production cost is more than ten times that of the 76mm tank gun, which is an order of magnitude more expensive than the 85mm tank gun, not to mention the large amount of man-hours and wastage required for production.

In addition, it also has a troublesome defect. The muzzle velocity is too high and the rifling wear rate is too fast. It is said that at most 150 shells can be fired, and the barrel will have to be scrapped.

The Soviet Union drowned Germany with the tide of T34. Such an expensive and too long production time is obviously not suitable for mass production, and it does not fit the Soviet Union's concept of war.

Because of these problems, despite its excellent performance, at the beginning of the 41st War, it stopped after more than a hundred vehicles were produced. Later, most of them were lost in the war.

By the time the terrifying Tiger tanks appeared in 43, most Soviet tanks were unable to single-handedly challenge them at the front and common combat distances, including the T34/76, which was a headache for the Germans.

If you want to penetrate the frontal armor of a Tiger tank, you have to venture to a distance close to suicide!

Except for the Soviet needle.

To this end, the T34/57 returned to light, because at a distance of kilometers, it can kill the tiger from the front!

But it was still too expensive, too troublesome to produce, and not long after the "big head" T34/85 and Stalin-type tanks appeared, and it was completely discontinued after more than 100 vehicles were produced.

The Soviet-German war was the fighter in the meat grinder. This special T34 was relatively rare in production equipment. As the war was consumed, it was eliminated after the war...

Until now...

"The most number of digits, Russia has it, and I didn't pay attention to whether Ukraine or Belarus has it." Andrei said, "Too few."

With that, the colonel asked Alexandrov on the side: "No one will make trouble, right?"

If it was just the two common T34s, absolutely no one would gossip, this swamp was in the confines of the nursing home, and they all said hello.

But this thing is too rare!

When Alexandrov heard this, he said with a grin: "It's okay. I said hello to the city hall here. I just dig a tank. People won't take care of it at all."

"That's good." Zhang Nan said, "I have to transport it to Moscow and put it in front of the Leningrad Hotel or Tsaritsino Manor as a decoration."

"Not to Long Island?" Alexandrov asked.

He knows that the boss has a huge private military museum in the United States, so such a rare tank would be a good collection in the museum.

"It's not appropriate. The existing ones in the museum were purchased through formal procedures. We dug up this thing. Even if others don't care about it, it will be shipped to the United States without any care, and no one will gossip in future.

It also makes sense that digging up World War II relics privately will never make it to the table.

Zhang Nan also wants face.

If you send it to the United States, it is certain that you will be gossiped about in the future, and there will be no problem in Russia.

The tank was wrapped in dark marsh silt. Although it is not far from the river, the oxygen content of the mud and silt may be higher than that of the stagnant marsh, and the pH value of this water is estimated to be not so neutral.

But looking at the preservation of the tank is okay, at least the rust is not too serious, the silt has a large water content, and the original paint can be seen in some places after slipping.

At this point, Andre said to Zhang Nan: "I think it can be repaired. The engine and gearbox can be directly replaced with the same model. Some of them are in the waste warehouse.

Even if it is not in the warehouse, there will be places for demolition. There are unmanned 76 models everywhere in Russia.

As for other accessories, it is not a big problem, and it can be easily repaired to a working state. "

When Zhang Nan heard it, he smiled and said, "It's a good idea. Fix it and put it in the manor."

Can open, can not open, the difference is big for the tank collection!

Not to mention that this guy's site is the same as the T34/76, and even the turret is similar. The only difference is the tank gun, the slightly changed anti-shield, the gun mount, and the arrangement of the internal shell mount.

Didn't expect to use that "spirit needle" to fire again and run, that would be victory.

As long as the model is the same, who will care if you use the original equipment and parts of this car.

As long as the model is the same ~www.readwn.com~ it is the original one!

While speaking, he didn't get too close, it was seventy or eighty meters away.

This guy is stuck in the mud, the closest to the surface is the bottom of the car, which is more than 1.5 meters deep.

I don't know how fast the tank was submerged in the swamp. If it is too fast, the ammunition in the tank is probably still there.

Cannonballs, in the quagmire, will explode after half a century.

What Andre reminded just now makes sense. This is different from Zhang Nan's last life in digging ancient tombs that he only needed to guard against police and landslides. He acted as a digging party on the original Soviet-German battlefield, and be careful to blow himself up into the sky!

Look at the excitement from afar, wait for most of it to be dug out, hung up with a thick steel cable, and the other end is connected to the armored rescue vehicle on the site of two old-fashioned T62 tanks.

Just one car is enough and two cars are insured.

"Boom Rumble," just dragged it out of the big hole.

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