The T-17 tank was a Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 tankette

Tankette

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 design of the interwar years

Interwar period

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. As part of a three years development plan, a "pulemetok support" battalion

Battalion

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 was to be established by December 1930. In 1926, the KB OAT begun work on a "Liliput" single light reconnaissance

Reconnaissance

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 tank

Tank

A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility, tactical offensive, and defensive capabilities...

. The biggest problems the development team faced was finding a new chassis

Chassis

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 and engine

Engine

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The projected was stalled continuously. On March 3, 1928 under the leadership of the head. Motor lab AP Kushka involving LY Lalmena, as well as engineers, S. Ginsburg

Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg

Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg , attended the Dzerzhinsky Military Technical Academy in Leningrad. He worked in the GKB and in the KB-3 in Moscow...

 and E. Grote took the protection of the new draft wedgies.

Chassis and powertrain

The T-17 developers utilized the T-16 chassis and powertrain for the base model. The hull was based on the "Liliput". The power unit used two-cylinder air-cooled engine

Air-cooled engine

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. Track chain was rubber steel.

Superstructure and armaments

Housing wedgies, which received the T-17 (often referred to as, like its predecessor, "Liliput"), was riveted to the frame. The driver, located in the wheelhouse

Wheelhouse

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, also operated a machine gun

Machine gun

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 mounted to the right of the longitudinal axis (as was the gun option wedgies).

Testing

With long initial delays, a prototype was ready during by the end of 1929. Despite problems, slipper was tested run in January 1930, and then - in June of that year, and showed better mobility than the T-18

T-18 tank

The T-18 light tank was the first Soviet-designed tank. Produced from 1928–31, it was based on the Renault FT-17, with the addition of a vertically sprung suspension....

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Modifications

One of the biggest drawbacks wedges became single body. Therefore, one of the three tankettes ordered by the summer of 1930, had already become a double. The second version of the T-17 had rubber tracks of the Kégresse type. Series Production T-17 found it impractical, and it was decided to continue work on the double slipper with standard units of T-18.