The Gorky Automobile Plant was not chosen by chance, since it was a huge machine-building enterprise with good equipment and modern technologies. 37, but its production capacity did not allow a sharp increase in their output to ensure the front, and then it was decided to organize the production of light tanks at the Gorky Automobile Plant. (The German designers had been unable to fit a 20mm cannon to the predecessor light tank PzKpfw I Ausf, which weighed around the same as the T-60.)īefore the Great Patriotic War, light tanks were manufactured by the Moscow plant No. Importantly, theT-60 could measure up to the German PzKpfw II Ausf Flight tank that was built in the same year and carried the same caliber armament. Its downsides were significant, though: With just 3-cm-thick frontal armor and carrying only a 20mm canon and 7.62mm machine-gun, the tank was mainly effective against infantry. The vehicle could be built in the same plants as the T-34mediumbattle tank, but far more cheaply. Weighing just 6.4 tons, the scout tank was created by designer Nikolai Astrov using existing automobile production capacities. The T-60 was developed in the chaotic summer of 1941, after Hitler’s armies launched Operation Barbarossa to conquer the Soviet Union. New cars could make up for losses and ensure minimal supply of army tanks.
Further serial release was personally monitored by the Supreme Commander.
During the heavy summer battles, the Red Army lost a large number of tanks, but the simple and technologically advanced T-60 was the machine that could help in this difficult situation. Held on the conveyor for less than a year, from September 1941 to July 1942, the T-60 became the most massively produced small tank in history.
The car, dubbed the T-60, designed a little more than a week. Interestingly, at that time the tank, the mass production of which was to be organized, did not even exist on paper. 222ss on the Manufacture of 10,000 Light Tanks. On July 20, 1941, the USSR State Committee for Defense (GKO) adopted Resolution No. Mass production of Soviet light tanks in the early years of the Great Patriotic War was mainly a forced response to the Red Army’s crippling initial battle losses, and although tanks such as the T-60 sustained terrible losses in the early months of the war, they played a vital role in stemming the German advance in 1941 until evacuated and reassembled factories could mass produce more powerful fighting machines.
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