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T-60-Soviet light tank during the Second world war. Developed in August 1941 at the Moscow plant № 37 under the leadership of Nikolai Alexandrovich Astrov, the leading developer of the entire domestic line of light tanks of that period. In September of the same year, the T-60 was adopted by the Workers ‘and Peasants’ red army and was mass-produced at several machine-building plants. Production of the T-60 continued until February 1943, when it was replaced on Assembly lines by a more powerful t-70 light tank. In total, 5,920 t-60 light tanks were produced, which took an active part in the battles of the great Patriotic war in 1941-1943. A small number of survivors in the battles of the T-60 was used as reconnaissance tanks, tractors, training machines until the end of the war. On the basis of the T-60 in 1941 was built the first self-propelled unit BM-8-24 class multiple launch rocket systems on a tank chassis. Soon after the end of the war, the T-60 was removed from the Soviet Army, and six such tanks have survived in museums in Russia and Finland.