The T-64 was conceived in Kharkov as the next generation main battle tank by Alexander A. Morozov, the designer of the T-54.A revolutionary feature of the T-64 is the incorporation of an automatic loader for its 125mm gun, allowing a crewmember's position to be omitted and helping to keep the size and weight of the tank down. The T-64B of 1976 would be able to fire a guided anti-tank missile through its gun barrel. The T-64 would be used only by the Soviet Army and never exported, unlike the T-54/55. It was superior to these tanks in most qualitative terms until the introduction of the T-72B model in 1985. The tank equipped elite and regular formations in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the T-64A model being first deployed with East Germany's Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG) in 1976, and sometime later in Hungary's Southern Group of Forces (SFG). By 1981 the improved T-64B began to be deployed in East Germany and later in Hungary.
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Product Details:
Scale: 1/35
Skill Level: 4
Length: 10.3”
Width: 4.2”
Parts: 600+
- Painting and assembly required
- Slide-molded hull and turret
- 25 sprues
- 3 photo-etched frets
- Multi-piece plastic tracks
- Gun can be positioned straight or inclined
- Clear parts
- One-piece lower hull and turret
- Decals
- Illustrated instructions and paint guide
*Experience with photo-etched parts is recommended*
*Cyanoacrylate glue is required for photo-etched parts*
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Paint Guide:
A. Tire Black
Metal Black
Light Green
Khaki
B. Tire Black
Metal Black
Light Green
Aircraft Grey
Flat Black
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