MVM Museum Minute No. 1 - T-34-85 turret traverse control mechanism

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

Would love to see some more internal operations including driving and longer video on the turret operations including gun elivation and depression.

[@WW2fan-sh8jq]

Same

[@jaskap77]

Answer is, too many. :) Electrical was used to do rough traverse and final gun laying was done by hand. I think that ringing sound is caused be traverse mechanisms clutch. Haven't had chance or need to examine it yet.

[@AsterVRC]

Crazy!... I'LL BUY IT

[@jorgesfs]

I heard the T-34 had a problem with the electric motor used to rotate the turret. Something about it being prone to black outs and too much sparking, or something like that. Was it corrected in the T-34-74 and T-34-85 turrets?

[@ДанилДёмин-б3п]

Yes 34-85 were already eliminated the major shortcomings.

[@hideous62]

So how many manual turns for 20 degrees ? 60-80 turns ? the ringing sound we hear, is just gear chatter ?

[@laurentiu.panait2536]

It's on every t34 with electric traverse

[@danyofdeath]

did the m4 sherman have power traverse?

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

It did. Most by this time of late 1942 had power traverse. Some better then others. The T34/76 was notable for its traverse motor being way to weak and sparking, then breaking when used.

[@TestECull]

+danyofdeath Yes. Power traverse was standard equipment on tanks by the time the Sherman came out. Turrets got too big and too heavy to quickly hand rotate around the start of the war. Note how slow the T-34/85's turret is on hand traverse, you only use that for final aim adjustment and will sweep the turret to the general direction of the target with the power traverse. Nowadays tanks don't always have a manual traverse, as modern computers and electric motors are capable of laying the gun far more accurately and quickly than even a god-tier T-34 or Tiger or Sherman crew could ever do with the power-manual old time traverse systems. Also, 2-axis stabilization, something those old tanks didn't have(Sherman did have a vertical stabilizer, though!)

[@StalkerGamingHU]

+TestECull Actually the Tiger 1 didn't had power traverse. (afaik)

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

StalkerGamingHU It did. The motor for it sat on the turret floor and operated via foot pedals. But it suffered the same issue as the Panther Ausf. D which is that it was underpowered (at least for the early models. It was later upgraded to a more powerful one).

[@StalkerGamingHU]

Oh, okay then. Ty.

[@glocksp80smd]

Inside tanks are scary your a big slow duck ready for some rpgs to hit you or artillery shells

[@BLACKTHUMB01]

Short attention span theater.

[@kreigdernier9553]

They never improved that it looks like. A lot of Russian tankers lost body parts to the fact that there was no turret floor that turned with the turret

[@venator5]

Only a small amount of ww2 tanks had that. None of the russian tanks.

[@GokStrizh]

@@venator5 Some russian WWII tanks had a turrent floor. For example, it's T-70, T-28, T-35.

[@dylan7226]

That's 1:03 u''LIAR''