Artilleriyskiy Tyagach Tyazholiy, or AT-T (russian: Артиллерийский Тягач, Тяжёлый (АТ-Т), meaning "heavy artillery tractor") was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

Cold War-era

artillery tractor An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres. It may be wheeled, tracked, or half-tracked. Traction There are two ...

. The AT-T is based on the chassis and drive system from the

T-54 The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed at Nizhny Tagil by the end of 1945.Steven Zaloga, T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tank ...

tank. However, the hull has been rotated 180 degrees, with the engine, clutch, gearbox, steering gear and the drive wheels located at the front of the vehicle. The crew cabin is also located in the front part of the vehicle, and is from the ZIS-150 and

ZIL-164 The ZIS-150 was a Soviet truck. In 1947 it replaced the ZIS-5 truck on the assembly line. Together with the GAZ-51 it was the main Soviet truck during the 1950s, judging by their quantity. A tractor-trailer version of the ZIS-150, the ''ZIS-120N' ...

trucks.

Variants

*BAT-M obstacle removing vehicle *BTM-3 high-speed trench digging vehicle *

Kharkovchanka Kharkovchanka (Russian: Харьковчанка, "Woman of Kharkov"), code name: Manufacture 404S, is a model of Antarctic off-road vehicle made circa 1957–1958 in the Soviet Union, designed and built by the Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant ...

Antarctic off-road vehicle * MDK-2M pits digging vehicle * P-40 radar

External links

O. Protasov - AT-T heavy artillery tractor
Artillery tractors Military vehicles of the Soviet Union Military vehicles introduced from 1945 to 1949 {{Mil-vehicle-stub