Heavy tank T-35C mod. 1939 - how to make the five turreted rotates?

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T-35C mod. 1939 - Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank of 1939 production series. Often called a land battleship, it was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach production. It was designed to complement the contemporary T-28 medium tank; however, very few were built. Produced 1934–1939. No. built 60 and two prototypes.

Modding. How to make the five turreted rotates?



Soviet heavy tank T-35A M1936/37,
German captured tank (Beutepanzer) Pz. T-35A 751(r) - German designation for a captured armored fighting vehicle
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American heavy tank T26E4 Super Pershing
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12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2
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The 12.8 cm Flak 40 ordnance on a static dual mounting with a total weight of 26 tonnes, capable of firing 12-20 rounds per minute of each barrel. Used mainly on flak towers. Production started in 1942 with 10 tandems produced, another eight in 1943, and in February 1945 a total of 34 were available.
The fortified anti-aircraft tower "Zoo" had four twin installations of 12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2, as well as on other anti-aircraft towers protecting Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. In April-May 1945, during the Battle of Berlin, the 12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2 on the fortified anti-aircraft tower "Zoo" was successfully used to support ground troops. The rush to capture the Reichstag led to the destruction of dozens of Soviet tanks.



T-35C M1939



Pz. T-35A 751(r)
Panzerkampfwagen T-35A 751(r)
4./Panzer-Regiment 11
Kampfgruppe «Ritter»
Secteur de Berlin, Allemagne, avril 1945



By photo, autumn 1941, an exhibition of captured Soviet tanks in Kummersdorf, 40 kilometers from Berlin. Captured Soviet heavy tank Pz. T-35A 751(r).



By photo, Soviet soldiers inspect a captured Soviet heavy tank Pz. T-35A 751(r) in the suburbs of Berlin in May 1945, the tank was used by the Kampfgruppe «Ritter», where it was used as a fixed fortification and barricade. In the area of the Zossen test site.

The last recorded action of the T-35 took place during the First Battle of Kharkov (20–24 October 1941), where four tanks undergoing repairs at their home factory (renamed Factory No. 183) were made roadworthy, re-armed and hastily pressed into service in the defense of the city. At least one captured T-35A M1936/37 was shipped to Germany for evaluation at the Kummersdorf military proving ground. This tank (serial number 715-62) was meticulously inspected and showed widely divergent armor thickness values used in its construction, likely the result of poor quality control of armor plate supplied by the steel mills. In April 1945, this tank Pz. T-35A 751(r), now stripped of most of its armament and immobile, was assigned to Kampfgruppe «Ritter» (4./Panzer-Regiment 11) and towed into the town of Zossen where it was used as a fixed fortification and barricade.

[SchnelleMeyer]

Only one rotating turret is possible in CC. But you could have up to 6 different weapons on a vehicle - 3 hull mounted and 3 turret mounted.

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Only one rotating turret is possible in CC. But you could have up to 6 different weapons on a vehicle - 3 hull mounted and 3 turret mounted.

Hello, SchnelleMeyer. Thanks.

Modding. In the mod three guns (1 x 76.2 mm KT-28 AND 2 x 45 mm 19-K) and three tank machine guns 7.62 mm DT M1929 ?
The crew of the tank is 10 people ?

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Mass 58 tons (127.9 kip)
Highway speed 28.9 km/h (18 mph)
Cross-country speed 14 km/h (8.7 mph) on the ground
The crew of the tank is 10 people

Main turret:
1 x 76.2 mm tank cannon M1927/32 (KT-28)
Secondary turret:
2 x 45 mm tank cannon M1932/38 (19-K)
Main and Secondary turret:
5, 6 or 7 - 7.62 mm DT M1929 tank machine guns (DT Degtyaryov tank machine gun - for mounting and loading in armoured fighting vehicles).

Main turret was equipped with a 76.2 mm tank cannon M1927/32 (KT-28) (length of barrel 16.5 calibers), which was also used on the Т-28 medium tank. As an auxiliary weapon in the main turret, to the right of the cannon, the 7.62 mm DT M1929 tank machine gun was placed autonomously in a ball setting. By 1937, an anti-aircraft DT tank machine gun was set on the foundation of the gunner's hatch on the main turret.
In each of the two diagonally-mounted (i.e., one in the right forward quarter and another in the diagonally-opposite left rear quarter, as viewed from behind) two-seater turrets was placed one 45 mm tank cannon M1932/38 (19-K) (length of barrel 46 calibers) and a coaxially-mounted 7.62 mm DT M1929 tank machine guns.

The T-35-1 and T-35-2 two prototypes had a crew of 9 (commander, gunner and loader of the 76 mm turret, two gunners of the 37 mm turrets, two gunners of the machine gun turrets, the driver and his assistant) with two mechanics "attached" to a particular tank, but not participating in battles, thus making the official crew number 11. The serial tanks T-35A M1934/37 and T35C M1938/39 had a crew of 10 (commander, gunner and loader of the 76 mm turret, two gunners and loaders of the 45 mm turrets, two gunners of the machine gun turrets and the driver), still with two attached mechanics, making the total crew 12.

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SchnelleMeyer,

I am making a small mod "Hitler's Bunker 1945". I drew five maps. Now I'm making armored vehicles.
Map 5 pixels/m
Vehicles 8 pixels/m
Soldiers 12 pixels/m





Sd.Kfz. 3 (Daimler DZVR 21, Gepanzerter Kraftwagen)
By photo in the inner courtyard of the former Berlin Reichschancellery - May, 1945.





Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf.D
11.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division «Nordland»
By photo. The damaged armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf.D, tail number "539" from the 11th SS division "Nordland" on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. This is the car of the commander of the 3rd company (company of Swedish volunteers) of the reconnaissance battalion (Aufklaerungs-Abt.11) Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans-Gest Pehrsson (Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans-Gosta Pehrsson). The Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf.D was hit on the night of May 1-2, 1945, when it participated in an attempt to escape from Berlin. The armored personnel carrier was hit on Friedrichstrasse Street south of the . To the right of the car lies the dead driver, Untersharfuhrer Ragnar Johansson.
Hauptsturmfuhrer Persson was wounded, but managed to escape and hide in an apartment building, where he spent two days in a storeroom. Then he went outside and met a German woman who promised to help him with civilian clothes. However, she brought Soviet soldiers with her and Pehrsson was captured. Fortunately for him, he had already managed to change his SS tunic to a Wehrmacht tunic. Soon he escaped from Soviet captivity, took refuge in an apartment building and got civilian clothes. After some time (a few days), he met his Unterscharfuhrer Erik Wallin (SS-Unterscharfuhrer Erik Wallin) and together with him made his way to the British occupation zone, from where they returned home to Sweden.
In the same Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf.D, a woman's corpse was found. According to some sources, she belonged to the "SS volunteer staff", according to others, "a representative of the Norwegian Red Cross".

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12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2 (vehicles 8 pixels/m)
The 12.8 cm Flak 40 ordnance on a static dual mounting with a total weight of 26 tonnes, capable of firing 12-20 rounds per minute of each barrel. Used mainly on flak towers. Production started in 1942 with 10 tandems produced, another eight in 1943, and in February 1945 a total of 34 were available.
The fortified anti-aircraft tower "Zoo" had four twin installations of 12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2, as well as on other anti-aircraft towers protecting Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. In April-May 1945, during the Battle of Berlin, the 12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2 on the fortified anti-aircraft tower "Zoo" was successfully used to support ground troops. The rush to capture the Reichstag led to the destruction of dozens of Soviet tanks.

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American heavy tank T26E4 Super Pershing (vehicles 8 pixels/m)



American heavy tank T26E4 Super Pershing. Mass 50 tons (110.2 kip). Production dates Nov. 1944 - 1945. No. built 26.
The 90 mm M3 gun of the Pershing was similar to the German 88 mm KwK 36 used on the Tiger I. In an effort to match the firepower of the King Tiger's more powerful 88 mm KwK 43, the T15E1 90 mm gun was developed and mounted in a T26E1 in January 1945. This tank was designated T26E1-1. The T15E1 gun was 73 calibers in length and had a much longer high-capacity chamber allowing it to penetrate up to 330mm of armor. This gave it a muzzle velocity of 3,750 ft/s (1,140 m/s) with the T30E16 APCR shot and could penetrate the Tiger's frontal armor beyond 3,300 yd (3,000 m). The model shown used single-piece 50-inch-long (1,300 mm) ammunition. Firing trials with the T15E1 revealed that the length and weight of the single-piece ammunition made it difficult to stow inside the tank and load into the gun.

Tank was converted from a T26E3 and used a modified T15E2 gun that had two-piece ammunition. Twenty-five production models of the tank, designated T26E4, were built. An improved mounting removed the need for stabilizer springs.

Super Pershing was shipped to Europe and given additional armor to the gun mantlet and front hull by the maintenance unit before being assigned to one of the tank crews of the 3rd Armored Division. The new gun on the Super Pershing could pierce 13 inches (330 mm) of armor at 100 yards (91 m). The front hull was given two 38 mm steel boiler plates, bringing the front up to 38+38+102 mm of armor. The plates were applied at a greater slope than the underlying original hull plate. The turret had 80 mm thick rolled homogeneous armor (RHA) from a Panther upper glacis welded to the mantlet, covering the front. This added about five tonnes to the tank weight, requiring extra armor added to the turret for balance.

An account of the combat actions of this tank appeared in the war memoir Another River, Another Town, by John P. Irwin, who was the tank gunner. Zaloga described three actions in his book. On 4 April, between Weser and Nordheim, the Super Pershing engaged and destroyed a German tank, or something resembling a tank, at a range of 1,500 yd (1,400 m). According to Zaloga, it is possible this vehicle was a Jagdpanther from the 507th Heavy Panzer Battalion. On 12 April, the Super Pershing claimed a German tank of unknown type. On 21 April, the Super Pershing was involved in a short-range tank duel with a German tank, which it knocked out with a shot to the belly. Irwin described this German tank as a Tiger, but Zaloga was skeptical of this claim. The tank was likely a Panzer IV.

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Hitler's Bunker
Fuhrerbunker (left) and Vorbunker (right)

[SchnelleMeyer]

Very interesting - a new "pocket-mod"is really good news! Thank s for the images if your graphics and ideas for the mod. New maps for Close Combat is really rare these days, and I would like to be a better map maker myself, so would love to see your 5 new maps if possible?