The T-25 Light Tank was a second attempt to improve the mobility of the T-26 light tank by installing Christie suspension. The first attempt had been made in 1935-36 by S. Ginzburg and the OKMO team, and had been abandoned because their design (the T-46) was over-complex. The second attempt was made by the Stalingrad Tractor Factory (STZ). The prototype T-25 was completed in 1938, and matched the Christie suspension used on the fast BT series tanks with a slightly modified T-26 chassis. The new design was still to complex for mass production, and so a simplified version, the ST-25, was developed, but this was abandoned in favour of the T-50 light tank.
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