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During the interwar period, several tank concepts were proposed, tested, and largely rejected. One of these was the multi-turreted tank, which seemed to have been an attempt to transpose the 360-degree firing arc and varied armament of battleships onto a land-based army tank. The most complex was the Soviet T-35, which entered Red Army service in 1935. It was armed with five turrets, the most ever fitted to an army tank: one 76.2mm main cannon, two 45mm secondary cannons, and five 7.62mm machine guns (two in their own turrets and three coaxial with the larger cannons). Given this armament, the T-35 tank required a crew of eleven, all of whom had to fit into the five turrets and cramped hull.

Although a lot of hopes were pinned on the T-35, it proved excessively complex and unreliable, making it wholly unsuitable for the sustained combat of the Great Patriotic War, and was retired in 1941 shortly after 90 percent T-35 tanks assigned to repel the German invasion ended up breaking down. The Red Army sensibly decided to make the simple T-34 its main battle tank, and the larger but still fairly simple KV and JS series its heavy tanks. This model of the T-35 was on display at Shizuoka Hobby Square. I wonder if anyone on the Warhammer 40,000 design team drew inspiration from this tank while designing the Imperial Baneblade. This tank only has eight guns, while the Baneblade can "unleash eleven barrels of hell."

Description
During the interwar period, several tank concepts were proposed, tested, and largely rejected. One of these was the multi-turreted tank, which seemed to have been an attempt to transpose the 360-degree firing arc and varied armament of battleships onto a land-based army tank. The most complex was the Soviet T-35, which entered Red Army service in 1935. It was armed with five turrets, the most ever fitted to an army tank: one 76.2mm main cannon, two 45mm secondary cannons, and five 7.62mm machine guns (two in their own turrets and three coaxial with the larger cannons). Given this armament, the T-35 tank required a crew of eleven, all of whom had to fit into the five turrets and cramped hull.

Although a lot of hopes were pinned on the T-35, it proved excessively complex and unreliable, making it wholly unsuitable for the sustained combat of the Great Patriotic War, and was retired in 1941 shortly after 90 percent T-35 tanks assigned to repel the German invasion ended up breaking down. The Red Army sensibly decided to make the simple T-34 its main battle tank, and the larger but still fairly simple KV and JS series its heavy tanks. This model of the T-35 was on display at Shizuoka Hobby Square. I wonder if anyone on the Warhammer 40,000 design team drew inspiration from this tank while designing the Imperial Baneblade. This tank only has eight guns, while the Baneblade can "unleash eleven barrels of hell."