They also minimize exposure of the valuable towing aircraft, which need not appear over the battlefield. Gliders allow crews to arrive at the drop/landing zone along with their vehicles. The biggest problem with air-dropping vehicles is if their crews are dropped separately, they may be delayed or prevented from bringing them into action. During the 1940 occupation of Bessarabia, light tanks may have been dropped from a few meters up by TB-3 bombers, which, as long as the gearbox was in neutral, would allow them to roll to a stop.
In the 1930s, there were experimental efforts to parachute tanks or simply drop them into water. Instead of loading light tanks onto gliders, as other nations had done, Soviet airborne forces had strapped T-27 tankettes underneath heavy bombers and landed them on airfields. This vehicle is sometimes called the A-40T or KT.ĭesign and development TB-3 bomber carrying a T-27 tankette, 1935 A prototype was built and tested in 1942, but was found to be unworkable.
The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka ( Russian: крылья танка, meaning "tank wings") was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans.
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