It is not true that the T-34 - a great surprise for the German soldiers in World War II - arose out of the blue. There was simply a lack of reconnaissance. The ВТ (Bystrochodya Tank = Fast Tank) 1-7 series, which originated in 1931, and the BT-IS (Ispitatelniy = Researcher) developed in 1936 featured from the start the Christie running gear with the big road wheels, which was later typical of the T-34 as well. Since the BT-7 they were equipped with robust Diesel engines, and the BT-IS was the first to have angled armor plate. All of them, including the two successor models, the A-20 and A-30, were still armed with a 4.5 cm tank gun and could travel on their road wheels even without tracks - hence the "Fast Tank" designation. There was much in them that pointed the way to the T-34. Even more similar was the T-32 (1939) based on the A-30, which did not go into series production but was a decisive transitional step to the ensuing T-34. This design already included the 7.62 cm...

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