Description
Built between 1935 and 1940, the BT-7 was a Russian light cavalry tank that saw service in the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars, WWII and the Winter War. Weighing in at just less than 14 tons, the BT-7 had a chain driven transmission powered by a 450hp Mikulin M-17T (V-12) gasoline engine. The main armament of this light tank was the 45 mm L/46 cannon. By the onset of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and with tank losses soaring higher and higher, the BT-7 was still in full production. By the time of the Battle of Kursk, the BT-7 was making up nearly half of the armor in the Soviet Army.