BT-5 Recovery

Hugewally · Post by **Hugewally** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:17 am

From the Neva River after sitting on the bottom for a better part of 66 years.

http://www.tbt.com/world/inasnap/article42410.ece#iab

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Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:09 am

Hopefully it will be restored to running condition.

BTs are very rare, given the prodigious quantities that were produced.

A friend, who does some volunteer work for the Kubinka museum (a Soviet ex-pat here in California) provided me with this accounting for known BTs:

There are several BTs (BT-2, 5 and 7) in Kubinka/Army museum, there is a BT-7 in Victory Park in Moscow, there is a Running BT-5 in Belarus (and apparently another one that was either recovered or being recovered), there are semi restored BT-7s in Tolliati and in Mongolia. The only BT in the west is a BT-42 conversion in Parola, Finland.

There was also a BT-5 that Franco sent to the Italians as a gift, that resided in a museum up through perhaps the 1960s.

Other than that, I don't know of any surviving BTs.

Hugewally · Post by **Hugewally** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:29 am

Finnish BT-42

http://www.saunalahti.fi/veijju/tankit/tank009.html