Teletank

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 9:54 am

Teletanks were a series of wireless remotely controlled unmanned robotic tanks produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and early 1940s.[1] They saw their first combat use in the Winter war, at the start of World War II. A teletank is controlled by radio from a control tank at a distance of 500–1,500 meters, the two constituting a telemechanical group. Teletanks were used by the Soviet Red Army in the Winter War, fielding at least two teletank battalions at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.[1]
Teletanks were equipped with DT machine guns, flamethrowers, smoke canisters,[1] and sometimes a special 200–700 kg time bomb in an armored box, dropped by the tank near the enemy's fortifications and used to destroy bunkers up to four levels below ground.[citation needed] Teletanks were also designed to be capable of using chemical weapons, although they were not used in combat. Each teletank, depending on its model, was able to recognize sixteen to twenty-four different commands sent via radio on two possible frequencies to avoid interference and jamming. Teletanks were built based on T-18, T-26, T-38, BT-5 and BT-7 tanks.
Standard tactics were for the control tank (with radio transmitter and operator) to stay back as far as practicable while the teletank (TT) approached the enemy.[1] The control tank would provide fire support as well as protection for the radio control operator. If the enemy was successful at seizing the teletank, the control tank crew was instructed to destroy it with its main gun. When not in combat the teletank was driven manually.
In addition to teletanks, there were also remotely controlled telecutters and teleplanes in the Red Army.

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 9:42 pm

I thought there was another section of this before but I think its in the second page. Oh well it might be discussion number 2.

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:08 pm

I cant see the second page, is it the German Goliath tank bomb?

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:57 pm

Yea it is, it used to be there. But you can't click on it lol.

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 10:31 pm

Nope lol, guess my teletank is better Razz

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 3:38 pm

LOL it I think the reason why we are just posting new posts in this thread lol.

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 11:02 am

Why? TO inform people on old school tanks and other innovations.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:26 pm

LOL, education.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:24 pm

Yeah, you got any on any other nation developing remote tanks or vehicles?

Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:25 pm

um didn't the Germans invent their own type of something similiar to this but it was a bomb. The goliath bomb mine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine

But I think the Soviets were the only ones that developed this idea until the technological age began during the Cold War.

Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 10:32 am

I know that but besides Russia and Germany.

Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:57 pm

Hmm for that I don't know I might have to look it up though.