Talk:T-26

Kilomiets vs Kolomiets

Noticed these two names in references section. Two different persons or the same person with his name written wrong in one case? Kyng (talk) 11:45, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

This is a misprint. Of course, the person is the same - Russian tank historian Maxim Kolomiets. I've corrected this in the main text already Vladimir Historian (talk) 07:38, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

FAR needed

This article has large swaths of uncited text (to name only one of the problems) and needs to be submitted to WP:FAR (allowing the necessary number of days after TFA). Most of the uncited text was not present in the promoted version, so a good deal of the content in this article now was not vetted at WP:FAC. It is unlikely this amount of new material can be brought to standard easily, so I will initiate a FAR next week unless there are some dramatic changes in here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:24, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Certainly. I'm actually surprised that it was able to make TFA with so many obvious issues. Better sourced and written articles have been demoted on lesser concerns, yet this somehow made the main page. TFA needs to evaluate this case to prevent it from repeating itself. - Caribbean~H.Q. 07:02, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Excessive markup

Vladimir Historian please review WP:SHOUT and avoid filling the talk page with excessive markup like bolding. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:22, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

No problem, but bolding is necessary sometimes to highlight key phrases supporting the correct and reliable information, for instance. Regards, --Vladimir Historian (talk) 21:28, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Such needs are exceedingly rare; most folks who can edit Wikipedia can also read. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:10, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Not exceedingly rare as they are mentioned in WP:SHOUT ;) Anyway, to highlight important information (but not all text, of course, with this point I agree) bolding is sometimes necessary, this is obvious. This section can be removed even as everything with bolding is clear (I have removed bolding in archive notes) and the further work with the article text is going well. Regards, --Vladimir Historian (talk) 15:38, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

List of Wars excessive.

The list of wars includes Ww2 and several others which are only campaigns during WW2 (Eastern Front, Anglo Soviet Invasion of Iran, Soviet Invasion of Poland.). List of Wars shoulder restricted to wars, or subdivided into bullet points. Hippocrocopig (talk) 14:51, 15 August 2016 (UTC)hippocrocopig

Agreed DMorpheus2 (talk) 16:18, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Trimmed the list DMorpheus2 (talk) 13:23, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Shouldn't the winter war still be on the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.93.179.195 (talk) 14:57, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

"Hotchkiss gun"?

"...the TMM-2 was equipped with an improved gearbox, a clutchless steering device and a 37 mm Hotchkiss gun in the right turret."

Seems unlikely to me, the only 37mm Hotchkiss guns I am aware of are the large multi-barreled revolving cannon used by turn of the century naval forces for anti-torpedo boat work. The later breech-loading Hotchkiss guns are in different calibers, like 42mm, 47mm and 25mm (25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun), . It seems more likely that it is a 37mm Puteaux gun, since that was what the T-18 used, and was in fact the gun that Hotchkiss themselves used in their Hotchkiss H35 tank. Seems unlikely that they would sell a 37mm tank gun and not use it for their own product. The Puteaux was a standard tank armament on tanks from WWI right up to the mid 30s, when they switched generally to higher velocity 37 and 40mm guns.

Also it mentions that the roof and bottom armor is made of inferior metal. That is typical, not sure why that needs to be pointed out like it was something unusual. Not very much risk of penetrating shots hitting the roof, so it doesn't need to be face hardened super-armor plate or as thick as the glacis armor.

64.223.159.241 (talk) 14:52, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

T-26E

Why would the E designation stand for "экранированный" if the variant is Finnish? Is "T-26E" what the Soviets called it, or what the the Finnish called it? 65.93.108.175 (talk) 06:30, 28 October 2022 (UTC)