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Title: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: Rino on October 09, 2010, 05:38:54 PM

     Was digging through some old bookmarks and came up with this.
http://www.nortfort.ru/np/foto_tbt1_e.html (http://www.nortfort.ru/np/foto_tbt1_e.html)

     I remember some interest about the T-34 that was recovered, and thought some of you might enjoy
a link.

Title: Re: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: Masherbrum on October 09, 2010, 05:53:33 PM

Cool photos, thanks for posting!

Title: Re: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: bravoa8 on October 09, 2010, 07:27:36 PM

Cool.

Title: Re: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: Dichotomy on October 09, 2010, 09:32:52 PM

awesome..


AH historians please comment...

Title: Re: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: Guppy35 on October 10, 2010, 08:47:42 PM

You can really  see the Christy influence on that Soviet tank.  Amazing stuff still coming out of the old Soviet Union with all the aircraft and tanks.  Where else would a well presered 190A5, P40E, P39Q, Me109E etc turn up?

Title: Re: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: Rino on October 10, 2010, 09:25:00 PM

     In the article the author mentioned that the engine was an old Liberty V-12 that had been reworked
by Allison, then exported to the USSR.  Very cool that after all these years they could still read the data plates.

Title: Re: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: Russian on October 10, 2010, 10:16:48 PM

Here's another one being raised from a swamp. It's in great condition...something about swamp doesn't let oxidation to happen so it rusts slower than in regular water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_bEdTTstU

Sorry, but it's in Russian. Still, interesting to see video even if you don't speak it.

Title: Re: BT-5 being Raised
Post by: cpxxx on October 11, 2010, 03:37:45 AM

Not so lucky is this perfectly preserved Stug III. Dug out of a swamp. It ended up stuck outside in a public park in Saratov stripped of everything and rusting away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhhheOZxYI&feature=player_embedded#!