List of armored fighting vehicles of the Soviet Union

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T-34 tanks headed to the front.
The Soviet "Big 7"

Below is a list of tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles of the Russian empire, Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine.

Imperial Russia, World War I[edit]

The Tsar Tank
Earth Battleship (project)

Armored tractors[edit]

  • Gulkevich's armored tractor
  • F. Blinov armored tractor
  • Walter armored vehicle

Tanks[edit]

Self-propelled guns[edit]

  • Drizhenko self-propelled gun
  • Turtle (Navrotsky Self-propelled gun)

After World War I to early World War II (1918-1940)[edit]

Armored cars[edit]

PB-4 Amphibious Armoured Car in Patriot Park

Tankettes[edit]

T-17 tankette.

Amphibious light tanks[edit]

Light tanks[edit]

Freedom Fighter Lenin (Russkiy Reno) monument in Nizhny Novgorod

Medium tanks[edit]

Tank Grotte
A-32

Heavy tanks[edit]

The Т-35 heavy tank followed the interwar trend for tanks with multiple turrets
Sirkena heavy tank
  • T-35
  • T-39
  • SMK (Experimental)
  • T-100 tank (Experimental)
  • KV-0 (Prototype for KV-1)
  • T-30
  • TP-1
  • TA-3
  • Sirkena tank project
  • Danchenko tank project
  • Object 0-50
  • Object 103
  • T-100-Z
  • VL (project)
  • TG-V
  • TG-VI

Tank destroyers and SPGs[edit]

SU-14 in trials, 1934

Flame-throwing tanks[edit]

KhT-26

Other vehicles[edit]

World War II (1941-1945)[edit]

The list does not include all vehicles, as there were many more experimental, or otherwise rare vehicles.

Armored cars[edit]

  • BA-64
  • LB-23
  • LB-62
  • LB-NATI

Tankettes[edit]

Light tanks[edit]

  • T-40
  • T-50
  • T-60
  • T-70
  • T-80 (prototype light tank)
  • T-111
  • T-116
  • T-126 (SP) - up-armored version of T-50
  • T-127
  • LTP
  • MT-25 (proposal tank)
  • LTTB (1 prototype)

Medium tanks[edit]

Heavy tanks[edit]

KV-series tanks

Tank destroyers and assault guns[edit]

SU-100Y

Self-propelled guns[edit]

Self-propelled anti-air[edit]

Lend-Lease tanks[edit]

Captured tanks[edit]

This includes modified captured tanks.

  • T-III (T-3) - captured Panzer III
  • T-V (T-5) - captured Panther tank
  • SU-76i - captured Panzer III modified to mount an 76mm S-1 gun on a tank destroyer configuration.
  • SU-85i - captured Panzer III modified to mount an 85mm D-5S-85A gun on a tank destroyer configuration.

After World War II (Soviet era, continued)[edit]

Armored fighting vehicles[edit]

Light tanks[edit]

  • T-100 light tank
  • PT-76
  • Object 685
  • Object 788
  • Object 906
  • Object 911B
  • Object 934
  • R-39 (Object 101)

Medium and main battle tanks[edit]

Heavy tanks[edit]

Tank destroyers and assault guns[edit]

Self-propelled guns[edit]

Self-propelled anti-air[edit]

Tanks and AFVs with ATGMs[edit]

  • IT-1
  • Object 170
  • Object 282
  • Object 286
  • Object 431
  • Object 287
  • Object 747
  • Object 757
  • Object 772
  • Object 775
  • Object 778
  • Object 780
  • Object 906B
  • Object 920
  • 2P27 Shmel'
  • 2P32 Falanga
  • 9P19 Glaz
  • 9P110 Obod
  • 9P122
  • 9P124
  • 9P133
  • 9P137 Fleyta
  • 9P148 Konkurs
  • 9P149 Shturm-S

Rocket launchers[edit]

Flame-throwing tanks[edit]

  • OT-54
  • TO-55
  • Object 483

Laser tanks[edit]

Other vehicles and AFVs[edit]

  • SPU-117 (Object 117)
  • Object 288
  • Progvev-T

Post-Soviet vehicles[edit]

Armored fighting vehicles[edit]

Light tanks[edit]

2S25 Sprut-SD

Medium and main battle tanks[edit]

T-90A

Self-propelled guns[edit]

2S19 Msta-S

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Bishop, Chris (1998). The Encyclopedia of Weapons of WWII. London, UK: Orbis Publishing and Aerospace Publishing. ISBN 0-7607-1022-8.
  • Milsom, John (1971). Russian Tanks, 1900–1970: The Complete Illustrated History of Soviet Armoured Theory and Design, Harrisburg Penn.: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-1493-4.
  • Zaloga, Steven J., James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8.