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BT FAST TANK
The Red Army’s Cavalry Tank 1931–45
STEVEN J. ZALOGA
ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY MORSHEAD
Author
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College
and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an
analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades,
covering missile systems and the international arms trade,
and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses,
a  federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books
on  military technology and military history, with an accent
on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the
former Soviet Union.
Illustrator
Henry Morshead is a design consultant in the European
automotive and aerospace sectors, with clients including
Jaguar, Bentley, Citroën and Airbus. He is also a technical
sponsor of the Bloodhound supersonic car, contributing
digital surfacing and design services. A former officer in the
Royal Engineers and illustrator for Jane’s, he maintains a keen
interest in the design and use of military land and air vehicles.
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NEW VANGUARD 237
BT FAST TANK
The Red Army’s Cavalry Tank 1931–45
STEVEN J. ZALOGA
ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY MORSHEAD
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Author's note
The author would like to offer his thanks to Stephen “Cookie” Sewell and
Wojciech Łuczak for their extensive help on this project. Unless otherwise
noted, photographs are from the author’s collection.
Glossary
BT
DT
Bystrokhodny tank: Fast tank
Degtyarev tankoviy: Degtyarev tank machine gun
EKU OGPU Eksperimentalnoe konstrukorskoe upravlenie-OGPU:
Experimental Design Directorate of the OGPU secret police
GABTU
GAZ
GKB-OAT
KhPZ
KhT
NII
NKVD
Glavnoe Avtobronetankovoe upravlenie: Main Auto-Armored
Technical Directorate
Gosudarstvennoe-aviatsioniy zavod: State Aviation plant
Glavnoe konstruktorsko biuro-Orudiyno-arsenalniy trest: Main
Design Bureau of the Armament Arsenal Trust
Kharkovskiy parovozostroitelniy zavod imeni Kominterna:
Komintern Steam Locomotive plant in Kharkov
Khimicheskiy tank: Chemical tank, usually a flamethrower
Nauchno-ispytatelniy institut: Research and Development
Institute
Narodniy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del: People’s Commissariat
for Internal Affairs; Soviet secret police that replaced OGPU in
1934
Obyedinennoe gosudarstvennoe politichskoe upravlenie: Joint
State Political Directorate; Soviet secret police
Pushka Syachentova: Syachentov’s Gun
Metric ton (1,000kg)
Upravlenie mekhanizatsii i motorizatsii: Mechanization and
Motorization Directorate, later GABTU
Industrial plant
OGPU
PS
Tonne
UMM
Zavod
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
AMERICAN ORIGINS
THE BT-5 TANK
THE BT-7 TANK
• The BT-7 Tank in detail
4
5
13
16
27
28
30
32
33
33
THE PT-1 AMPHIBIOUS TANK
BT ARTILLERY TANKS
FLAMETHROWER TANKS
ENGINEER SUPPORT TANKS
FLYING TANKS
COMBAT USE
• Combat Debut in Spain, 1937
• Combat in the Far East: Khalkin Gol, 1938–39
• Deployments in Poland, 1939
• The Winter War with Finland, 1939–40
• The BT Tanks in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–45
FURTHER READING
INDEX
47
48

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