The beginning of the thirties – a time of rapid development of Soviet armored forces. A lot of attention to tanks and aircraft as the main technology of future wars naturally advanced pilots and tank crews to the first position also in the General program for improving the uniform of the worker-peasant red army. As a result, already in 1934-1935 the personnel of the “steel troops” received the original “steel” uniform, which influenced the further reform of the military suit and left a clear visual mark in the history of the USSR during the Second world war.
One of the main reasons for the transition to the use of fabrics of gray-steel color was the urgent problem of rapid loss of things of their appearance in the conditions of growing saturation of the red army with armored vehicles. At the same time, another natural way of extending the wear of uniforms developed – through the modernization of the working clothing of tankers, brought to a high level of perfection by 1935.