From: Stephen Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 11:23:14 PST
Ronzo,
>
> Did the soviets ever put rubber track blocks on any of there
> vehicles?
The general answer is no, though they did have some tracks available in
limited quantities for T-55s IIRC (and probably other MBTs). The main
reason to not have rubberized tracks is cost... banging out steel
tracks is both cheap and low tech. I know that during WWII Soviet
industry proved incapable of large scale rubber vulcanization, and
therefore rubberized tracks were technically beyond their capabilities
to produce. Probably that way into the 1950s at least, though don't
see why they couldn't have "got it right" after that. So again, these
days it is probably a cost thing more than anything else.
Steve
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