T-44
Sign in to saveThe T-44 was a medium tank developed and produced near the end of World War II by the Soviet Union. It was the successor to the T-34, offering an improved ride and cross-country performance, along with much greater armor. Designed to be equipped with an 85 mm main gun, by the time it was fully tested the T-34 had also moved to this weapon. Both tanks offered similar performance, so introducing the T-44 was not considered as important as increasing T-34 production. Fewer than 2,000 T-44s were built, compared to about 84,000 T-34s. Although the T-44 was available by the end of the war, it w
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- T-44
- Weapon.image
- File:T 44 in Linija Stalina (Belarus).jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.caption
- A restored T-44 tank
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.type
- Medium tank
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.is_UK
- yes
- Weapon.service
- 19441960s
- Weapon.used_by
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.wars
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956World War II (August 1945, Manchuria only)
- Weapon.designer
- A.A. Morozov
- Weapon.design_date
- 1943–1944
- Weapon.manufacturer
- Factory No. 75, Kharkov
- Weapon.production_date
- 1944–1947
- Weapon.number
- 1,823
- Weapon.variants
- T-44-100, T-44-122
- Weapon.spec_label
- T-44A
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- Development history
- Genesis
- Prototypes
- First generation
- Second generation
- T-44A
- T-44-100 and T-54
- Description
- Production history
- Service history
- Variants
- Surviving vehicles
- Operators
- Former operators
- See also
- Citations
- General sources
- External links
The T-44 was a medium tank developed and produced near the end of World War II by the Soviet Union. It was the successor to the T-34, offering an improved ride and cross-country performance, along with much greater armor. Designed to be equipped with an 85 mm main gun, by the time it was fully tested the T-34 had also moved to this weapon. Both tanks offered similar performance, so introducing the T-44 was not considered as important as increasing T-34 production. Fewer than 2,000 T-44s were built, compared to about 84,000 T-34s. Although the T-44 was available by the end of the war, it was not used in any battle. It was 1 ton lighter than the T-34-85 and slightly faster. The T-44 was heavily influential on the design of the T-54/55 Medium tank, most prominently lower hull and turret profiles. Also notable was the T-44-100, a 100mm D-10T-armed prototype, which would be the same 100mm gun mounted on the T-54/55, bar some minor changes.
Attempts were made to improve the T-44's armament with a new 122mm gun, but the turret proved to be very cramped and the rate of fire was poor, on the order of three rounds per minute. Design work on a slightly enlarged version of the T-44 began during the war and a prototype was produced in 1945. This newer design entered production in 1947 as the T-54/55 series of medium tanks, the most-produced tank series of all time.