During the 10TP trails engineers conducting research reported many reservations about the complex driving gear wheel, in practice become clear this complex rear ger wasn’t used because tank could move on wheeled traction only on the hard roads while any atemp to off-road driving ends of tank being stuck.

Has changed shape of front hull, designers resigned from the steering mechanism of the first axle, hydraulic lifting mechanism of second axle and of complex gear driving the rear wheels. However, this tank has to move solely on tracks and featured engine of 300hp. The Successor of 10TP – 14TP repeated design of 10TP with same chassis system. It have designation 14TP and was under development parallel to the cruiser tank 10TP.ġ0TP trails proved that the concept of wheel – tracked tank is a dead end, the tank even as a refined design wouldn’t have such qualities that could justify mass production. Independently of wheel – tracked cruiser tank 10TP, the program provided development of tank with construction was similar to 10TP but with armor reaching a thickness of 10 – 35 mm.

While in relation to the 10TP tank, we have rather full information (including photographs, allowing the restoration of it’s appearance in drawings), then information related to the tank 14TP are quite rudimentary. The report on the state of armored warfare presented at the KSUS meeting in January 1937, contains the characteristics of different vehicles in the form of side sketches with the overall dimensions and the essential technical and tactical data. In these materials, the drawing of the 14TP is identical to the drawing of the 10TP, but later it’s appearance can be changed, because the design was in the even development stage.

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