Commissar Leon Trotsky
Immediately after the Bolshevik victory in the Civil War the Red Army continued to show interest in the Armored Forces. This was especially true up their own production of tanks to replace the trophy Western cars. Military Commissar Leon Trotsky wrote that the tank should be built plants, which meet the needs of the Soviet Union. In fact, in 1919 a team led by N. Khruleva started production of French tank "Renault FT 'on just nationalized factory AMO (Moscow Automobile Company). The decision to try to reproduce the tank "Renault FT 'was taken on the basis that it was smaller and simpler than other captured tanks.
Was collected one tank. It is believed that the establishment of 14 tanks is an exaggeration (in connection with state of the industry in the country after the just concluded the Civil War), it is assumed that it was refurbished and repaired FT, rather than new machines, but also that the tanks 'Russian Renault' or COP-1 released Plant 'Red Sormovo' in Nizhny Novgorod, on the AMO made for their engines. All 15 copies of the series, beginning with the 'freedom fighter comrade. Lenin ', were entirely domestic cars, but their quality is desired. Insufficient resources and lack of industry qualified professionals are not allowed to bring to life many of the original designs of Soviet tanks, created between 1919 and 1924 on the paper. Development of tanks are also often hampered sverhambtstsioznye fantastic and the goals of the designers. As announced by the Red Army's competition for the development of armored combat vehicles in 1919, won the team Izhora plant specialists, whose 'Ship type AM' was a 10-ton amphibious tank equipped with a gun, 76.2 mm.
Due to the daunting project and insurmountable technical problems working on a tank in 1923 had interrupt. Despite all the setbacks, the Russian continued to build the organization, whose purpose was to develop both the tanks and their application. In 1923, the General Directorate of Military Industry has carried out first systematic study of the construction of tanks to meet the requirements of the Red Army. The paper analyzed the use of tanks in the 1916-1918 years. and issued proposals for the training of personnel of tank units. Additional impetus to the creation of tanks as a kind of troops was given in 1925, when it was organized by the Technical Bureau of the study tanks. That made it the most significant contribution to restoring the industrial base and the organization of mass production in 1926 the first Soviet tank, called the MC-1 and known as the T-16/18.
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