T-60
Nicholas Astrov’s design team at Moscow Factory №37 was assigned the task of designing scout tanks in 1938.
Development of the T-60 began in the first days of the German invasion. The new tank was to be a stopgap measure to restock the heavy losses suffered by the tank corps while production lines of the heavier tanks like the T-34 or the KV-1 could not provide tanks of desired reliability in desired quantities.
Unlike its heavier siblings, the T-60 was designed to be produced on factories that did not have the machinery for dedicated tank production, such as the GAZ truck plant in Nizhny Novgorod, or the shipbuilding factory №264 in Stalingrad.
Country of origin: USSR
Years of production: 1941-1943
Crew: 2 persons
Issued: 5920 items
Weight: 5.8 t
Power: 70 HP
Speed: 42 km / h
