From: uniquemachine@cybcon.com
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 13:44:31 PST
If the Soviet rubber vulcanization was so poor, what was their
method for putting rubber around the road wheels on all the T34
variants during WWII? Different system completely?
> Ronzo,
>
> >
> > Did the soviets ever put rubber track blocks on any of there
> > vehicles?
>
> The general answer is no, though they did have some tracks available in
> limited quantities for T-55s IIRC (and probably other MBTs). The main
> reason to not have rubberized tracks is cost... banging out steel
> tracks is both cheap and low tech. I know that during WWII Soviet
> industry proved incapable of large scale rubber vulcanization, and
> therefore rubberized tracks were technically beyond their capabilities
> to produce. Probably that way into the 1950s at least, though don't
> see why they couldn't have "got it right" after that. So again, these
> days it is probably a cost thing more than anything else.
>
> Steve
>
>
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