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the Tank was adopted in 1942 and entered service with separate flamethrower tank battalions (in each 10 kV-8 tanks and 11 ot-34 tanks) and separate flamethrower tank brigades of RVC (59 tanks in each brigade). OT-34 is based on the linear tank T-34 1942 with the installation of a piston flamethrower ATO-41 or ATO-42 in the frontal sheet of the body instead of the course machine gun. The range of flamethrower standard mixture was 60-70 meters, using a special mixture - 90 - 100 m.
the Rate of fire from the flamethrower was 3 shots in 10 seconds. During offensive combat, flamethrower tanks usually moved in line with tanks of direct infantry support. If necessary, they moved forward flamethrowers and firing flamethrowers suppressed enemy fire points in the embrasures, burned the infantry in the trenches, destroyed armored vehicles. In total, 1170 OT-34 tanks were produced, in production they were replaced by the OT-34-85 tank.