( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. History General developments influencing Soviet tank design Mark VIII (Liberty) Tank Therefore, in order to circumvent Germany's treaty restrictions, these industrial firms formed a partnership with the Soviet Union to legally produce weapons and sell them, and along with other factors built up an infrastructure to produce tanks which later made the famous T-34 and other Soviet tanks. The Treaty of Versailles had severely limited Germany's industrial output. This early lead would be gradually lost during the course of the 1930s to the Soviet Union who with Germany began to design and build their own tanks. During and after World War I, Britain and France were the intellectual leaders in tank design, with other countries generally following and adopting their designs. This article deals with the history and development of tanks of the Soviet Union and its successor state Russian Federation from their first use after World War I, into the interwar period, during World War II, the Cold War and modern era.Īfter World War I (1914-1918), many nations needed to have tanks, but only a few had the industrial resources to design and build them.

Russian experimental main battle tank