T-24 tank

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T-24 Medium Tank
Type	Medium tank
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
Used by	Soviet Union
Production history
Designer	Ivan N. Aleksenko, T2K design bureau
Designed	1930
Manufacturer	KhPZ
Produced	1931
No. built	25
Variants	T-12 tank prototype, Komintern & Voroshilovets artillery tractors
Specifications
Mass	18.5 tonnes
Length	6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
Width	3.00 m (9 ft 10 in)
Height	2.81 m (9 ft 3 in)
Crew	5
Armour	8–20 mm
Main armament	45 mm gun Model 32
Secondary armament	3 × DT machine gun
Engine	250 hp (190 kW)
Power/weight	13.5 hp/tonne
Suspension	vertical spring
Operational range	140 km
Maximum speed	25 km/h (16 mph)

The T-24 was a Soviet medium tank built in 1931. Only twenty four were built, and none saw combat. This was the first tank produced at the KhPZ factory in Kharkov, which was later responsible for the very successful BT series, T-34 and T-54 Soviet tanks. The T-24's suspension was used successfully in the Soviet Union's first purpose-built artillery tractors.

The T-24's main armament was a 45 mm gun. It had a ball-mount 7.62 mm DT machine gun in the hull, another in the turret, and a third in a secondary turret atop the main turret. The tank was well-armoured for its time, but the engine and transmission had problems.