Teletank

<h2 id="design">Design</h2>
<p>Teletanks were equipped with <a href="/facts/Degtyarev_light_machine_gun/LbVApSLw">DT machine guns</a>, <a href="/facts/Flamethrower/rQ6djWsx">flamethrowers</a>, smoke canisters,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> and sometimes a special 200–700 <a href="/facts/Kg/lU2zbPk8">kg</a> time bomb in an armoured box, dropped by the tank near the enemy's fortifications and used to destroy bunkers up to four levels below ground. Teletanks were also designed to be capable of using <a href="/facts/Chemical_weapon/AwXDDhAR">chemical weapons</a>, although they were not used in combat. Each teletank, depending on model, was able to recognize sixteen to twenty-four different commands sent via radio on two possible frequencies to avoid interference and jamming. Teletanks were built based on <a href="/facts/T-18_tank/DljNvUap">T-18</a>, <a href="/facts/T-26/QnuaRhtc">T-26</a>, <a href="/facts/T-38_tank/blT85uI1">T-38</a>, <a href="/facts/BT_tank/gN37YUX7">BT-5</a> and <a href="/facts/BT-7/d8gbKw0a">BT-7</a> light tanks.
</p><p>Standard tactics were for the TU control tank (with radio transmitter and operator) to stay back as far as practicable while the teletank (TT) approached the enemy.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The control tank would provide fire support as well as protection for the radio control operator. If the enemy was successful at seizing the teletank, the control tank crew was instructed to destroy it with its main gun. When not in combat the teletank was driven manually.
</p><p>In addition to teletanks, there were also remotely controlled telecutters and teleplanes in the <a href="/facts/Red_Army/n15nLQTu">Red Army</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Telerobotics/neQ6bswt">Telerobotics</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Teleoperation/bpYyorPE">Teleoperation</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Goliath_tracked_mine/YMg1U00n">Goliath tracked mine</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_Russian_inventions/we2y02ha">List of Russian inventions</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683">What is teletank?</a> (in Russian)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090315024135/http://kybinka.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=54">All about teletank</a> (in Russian)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190110232315/http://mobimag.ru/Articles/283/Sredstva_svyazi_na_pole_boya.htm">Means of communication in battlefield</a> (in Russian)</li>
<li><a href="http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWI/1sov/index.php?page=8">First Soviet tanks</a> (in Russian)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070824220217/http://armoured.vif2.ru/t-38.htm">Light amphibious tank T-38</a> (in Russian)</li>
<li><a href="http://regions.ru/news/power/1979583/">70 years jubilee of Ulianovsk Higher Engineering School</a> (in Russian)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Alexander Lychagin (9 October 2004). "What is Teletank?" (Google translated page). Odint Soviet news. Retrieved 1 August 2010. <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683" target="_blank">https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Alexander Lychagin (9 October 2004). "What is Teletank?" (Google translated page). Odint Soviet news. Retrieved 1 August 2010. <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683" target="_blank">https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Alexander Lychagin (9 October 2004). "What is Teletank?" (Google translated page). Odint Soviet news. Retrieved 1 August 2010. <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683" target="_blank">https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Alexander Lychagin (9 October 2004). "What is Teletank?" (Google translated page). Odint Soviet news. Retrieved 1 August 2010. <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683" target="_blank">https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru%7Cen&u=http://www.odintsovo.info/news/?id=1683</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>,Alexey Isaev. 1942, Battle of Kharkov. Interview for Echo of Moscow radio station (in Russian) <a href="http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/victory/50054/" target="_blank">http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/victory/50054/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>http://pvo.guns.ru/book/vniirt/index.htm#_Toc122708803 (Google cache: [1]) Short essays on history of VNIIRT: development of telemechanical cutters (Russian) <a href="http://pvo.guns.ru/book/vniirt/index.htm#_Toc122708803" target="_blank">http://pvo.guns.ru/book/vniirt/index.htm#_Toc122708803</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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