Well since I have time, I could probably explain how this machine work. For those interdimensional entities that is “reviewing” my progress, you could probably skip this one since its mostly technical jargon about this thing.

So, a BT-5 tank is a light tank that is used primarily by the Soviet Union and was produced around 1933-1941. BT-5 is a tank which is part of the Bystrokhodny tank (Быстроходный танк/БТ) series which means fast moving tank or high-speed tank. This Bt-5 tank is the non-modified version of BT-5 tank not to be confused with BT-5PKh, KhBT-5, RBT-5, BT-5diz or SBT-5, which are the multiple version and variations of BT-5 tank. This tank was used until it was succeeded by the BT-7 tank.

The BT-5 tank armour is made from Rolled Homogeneous Armour(RHA). The specification is as follows :-

Armour

Front

Sides

Rear

Roof

Hull

13 mm (62°) Front glacis

20 mm (18°) Driver port

30 mm (62°) Lower glacis

40 mm (13°) Plate joint

15 mm (1°)

13 mm (0-59°)

10 mm

Turret

20 mm (11-43°) Gun mantlet

15 mm Turret front

15 mm

15 mm

10 mm

Both its track and suspension wheel are 15mm thick. The tank dimensions are 5.58m in length, 2.23m in width and 2.20m in height.

This BT-5 weigh around 11.5 tons and is equipped with a M-5 Liberty gasoline engine which have around 400 horsepower, that can be filled with 160 Liters of gasoline with a max road range of 200km or a tactical range of 900km. This thing has a single reverse transmission drive and 3 forward transmissions drive. This tank has It have a theoretical road speed of 72km/h but generally it would around 54km/h and 11km/h in reverse.

To move myself I would need to focus on the combustion of gasoline within myself and keep the gasoline to air ratio uniform with almost no deviation between each combustion. If I don’t do that, I would spontaneously combust. Next, I would need to properly align the gear drive to the engine with the correct transmission to start accelerating to prevent the gear from breaking, destroying my gear drive making me temporarily if not permanently disable. This is an oversimplification of what could and would happen if I was careless. If everything goes well, I would be able to move myself. I would need a bit more practice until it became akin to breathing as I would rather not be stuck here for who knows how long.

While I’m on this topic. The BT-5 is equipped with a 45 mm 20-K cannon as its main armament and a 7.62mm DT coaxial machine gun. The tank can carry a total of 86 rounds and could be reloaded within 3.8 seconds with a skilled crew. But I am not a skilled crew so it would probably take me around 5 s to reload a shell, 10 s if I want to prevent jamming it. It has a vertical guidance of -8° / 25° and a turret rotation speed of 11.2°/s.

Two different ammunition is available that is BR-240 and BR-240SP. BR-240 is an Armour-Piercing High Explosive Ballistic Cap (APHEBC) ammunition which have a penetration of 70mm of RHA at 10m, 59mm at 500m and 50mm at 1000m and velocity of 760m/s. The ammunition has a projectile mass of 1.43kg and is filled with 29.26 g TNT equivalent of mass that activated at 9mm and explode with a fuse delay of 1.2m.

Meanwhile. BR-240SP is an Armour-Piercing (AP) shell with velocity of 757m.s and projectile mass of 1.43kg. Its penetration is slightly better with 73mm of RHA at 10m, 62 mm at 500m and 52mm at 1000m.

The machine gun is a coaxial machine gun equipped with Armour-Piercing Incendiary Tracer (API-T) round that have 63 round each belt. I can carry around 1860 rounds which is 30 belts and can be reloaded within 10.4 s with a fire rate of 600 shots/min. It can penetrate 9mm of RHA at 10m, 6mm at 500 and 3mm at 1000m with a muzzle velocity of 815m/s. This thing also has too many points of failure similar to the cannon.

Other than that, there isn’t anything else worth noting about the tank. There is a 71-TK Shakal radio transceiver but I don’t know any use for it since there isn’t any radio signal here. I tried to use the speaker to talk but it still requires practice.

So… this is probably what I’ll do for the near future.