CZK - Cvičná pohyblivá tanková veža LT-38/37

Training mobile tank turret LT-38/37
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As part of the improvement movement and the effort to save fuel and the service life of full combat vehicles in the post-war Czechoslovak army, a makeshift teaching aid was created - a moving turret. This aid was intended to improve marksmanship training.


A pair of axles is mounted on a chassis frame made of steel profiles. The chassis skeleton is made of steel tubes and is covered with sheet metal plates. The wheels are mounted in ball bearings and the rear axle is driven. The vehicle is driven by a 380/220 V electric motor with a power of 4 hp. The power supply to the electric motor is provided by a rubber motor cable routed from the side of the vehicle body. The cable is suspended on pulleys from a guide rope stretched between two poles and is pulled behind the vehicle while it is moving. The engine is connected by a pull-out clutch to a gearbox taken from a cancelled GAZ AA vehicle. The clutch is operated by a foot pedal. The gearbox has four forward and one reverse gear and is operated by a manual gear lever. The gearbox is connected to the rear axle by a universal joint and shaft. The rear axle comes from a discontinued Willis off-road vehicle. The vehicle moves on rails 20 metres long. There are lugs welded onto the rails to simulate off-road driving conditions. The turret is taken from a Czechoslovak light tank LT vz. 38 (in its post-war Czechoslovak designation LT-38/37). It was found in a scrap yard. In the front wall of the turret is mounted (probably instead of a machine gun or in the cannon ?) a hand-fired small-bore rifle, from which practice firing was to be carried out. The sight was of the type TS-15 from the T-34/85 tank. In the vehicle there are places for four crew members (driver, gunner, commander and lower gunner).
The utility of such a teaching aid is questionable.


A similar training aid probably existed for training small arms fire from armoured personnel carrier. In this case, a OPp 3t N (Sd.Kfz.251) hull was used.


Staff Captain Jiri Pavlovich - Practical use of a mobile tank turret by a unit, magazine Tankista No. 4/1952, published by the Ministry of National Defence

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