![]() That is a simple error in his recollection. Furthermore, like all memoir, it is also colored by his experience and reading since the war, including no doubt Belton Cooper's memoir.įor example, he states the 9th Armored Division was formed from the 9th Mechanized Division, but it was not, it was formed from the 2d Cavalry Division. ![]() Martel however, as official British government observer, took entirely the wrong lesson from those exercises and persuaded the British down the Christie path.Ĭlick to expand.Yes, unfortunately he makes a number of mistakes, understandable given much of his recollection is of events that occurred over 70 years ago. The Christie suspension really was not up to the aerobatics th Soviets put their tanks through. After another day of watching BT5s leaping off tall walls and across wide ditches at full speed.he came across them being rebuilt and repaired for the NEXT day's demonstrations to the world's visiting press. It was IIRC Basil Liddell Hart who first reported the difficulties the Soviets were having with the Christie system, as an observer at some of the annual Red Army exercises in the last years of the 1930s. It had severely limited the all-up weight allowed to designers of the Cruiser MkIII and IV, and they had to trade armour thickness for crosscountry performance. The British actually soon found out that "true" Christie suspension wasn't all it was to be, and the version used on the later heavier cruisers was well modified and strengthened - at the cost of overall movement. ![]()
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