Tank of the week: T-26

[The Tank Museum]

A Russian copy of a pre-war British design. in 1930 the Russians obtained 15 examples of the Vickers-Armstrongs Mark E tanks and negotiated an agreement with the British firm to produce similar tanks. Armed with a 45mm gun and powered by a 4 cylinder, air-cooled engine the later models of the T-26 were a marked improvement on the original British design...