Trumpeter Military Models 1/35 Soviet T64 Mod 1972 Main Battle Tank Kit
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 125-mm gun,allowing a crew member's position to be omitted, and helping to keep the size and weight of the tank down,and the T-64B of 1976 would be able to fire a guided antitank 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 some time 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.
A revolutionary feature of the T-64 is the incorporation of an automatic loader for its 125-mm gun,allowing a crew member's position to be omitted, and helping to keep the size and weight of the tank down,and the T-64B of 1976 would be able to fire a guided antitank 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 some time 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.
- 550+ Parts
- Detailed hull exterior surfaces, fully represented running gear (with multi-part road wheels and sprockets, link-and-length track, bow dozer blade, poseable 'fish-gill' side skirts, cast texture turret, optional position turret hatches, choice of 2 cupola hatch types (including excellent optional 12.7mm machine gun), tool cases and stowage boxes, turret signal light mast, separate on-vehicle equipment and driver's hatch, infrared searchlight, stowed snorkel tube, filigree grab rails, clear-molded lenses, turned metal main gun barrel
- Photo-etch parts (grilles, gussets, brackets and fine details).
- Decals and color painting guide for a typical Red Army vehicle in overall green camouflage with additional numerals for alternate designations.