Russian armored trains of the First World War. “Steel fortresses” in battle: Maxim Kolomets

“The offensive of the division in connection with the work of the armored train is successful, the train is acting brilliantly,” “The armored train seized the bridge with an unexpected attack, which ensured the rapid capture of the city,” “going up to the first line of the trenches and opening the flank fire from all machine guns and the front guns, the train forced the enemy to leave the trenches, turning it into the first world war. Armored trains, the first of which came into line in August 1914. And if at first the armored sites were a hasty alteration of ordinary wagons, protected only by simple steel (as they then expressed: “boiler iron”) and layers of boards with filling sand between them, then the next year, the “hunhhu” type, turret weaponal installations, machine-gun sponsons and machine-gun sponsons and machine gun sponsons and machine-gun sponsons went into battle. A centralized water supply system for cooling machine -gun trunks, sound insulation and electric signaling. But the top of development …

Author
Kolomets Maxim Viktorovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
War and we. Tank collection
Genre
The history of wars