The TAI-43 is a field telephone with its own, built-in battery. For nearly 20 years this device was the most common field telephone of the Red and later the Soviet Army.
TAI-43 stands for “a telephone apparatus with an inductor call model of 1943.” The device was built into a rectangular wooden box with dimensions of 280×210×110 mm. It was powered by a single “3C” type battery of 1.5 V. The weight of the apparatus with the battery is 4.6 kg.
Communication between the TAI-43 telephones was established via P-274 field cable lines, which were laid using a TK-2 reel. The range of communication on PTF-7X2 field wire was up to 25 km, and on a permanent 3mm overhead line up to 250 km.
The TAI-43 telephone set was developed by the Red Army Communications Research Test Institute under the leadership of O. I. Repina. It entered service in 1943.
From 1943 until the end of the Great Patriotic War, the TAI-43s were produced in wooden cases of the khaki color. Only when one of the German factories that produced FF-33 field telephones was taken to the USSR as part of war reparations were the brown Bakelite cases of the TAI-43 brought into production. German FF-33s had been produced in Bakelite cases since 1933.
About 500,000 TAI-43 telephones were produced during the Great Patriotic War.
TAI-43 stands for “a telephone apparatus with an inductor call model of 1943.” The device was built into a rectangular wooden box with dimensions of 280×210×110 mm. It was powered by a single “3C” type battery of 1.5 V. The weight of the apparatus with the battery is 4.6 kg.
Communication between the TAI-43 telephones was established via P-274 field cable lines, which were laid using a TK-2 reel. The range of communication on PTF-7X2 field wire was up to 25 km, and on a permanent 3mm overhead line up to 250 km.
The TAI-43 telephone set was developed by the Red Army Communications Research Test Institute under the leadership of O. I. Repina. It entered service in 1943.
From 1943 until the end of the Great Patriotic War, the TAI-43s were produced in wooden cases of the khaki color. Only when one of the German factories that produced FF-33 field telephones was taken to the USSR as part of war reparations were the brown Bakelite cases of the TAI-43 brought into production. German FF-33s had been produced in Bakelite cases since 1933.
About 500,000 TAI-43 telephones were produced during the Great Patriotic War.
