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701578 1/35 Soviet T-64 MOD 1972
701578 1/35 Soviet T-64 MOD 1972
 
Retail Price: $78.99
Scale: 1/35
Brand: TRUMPETER

Stock Status: In Stock

Product Code: 701578
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Description
 
The T-64 was con ceived in Kharkov as thenext-generation main battle tank by Alexand er A. Morozov, the designer of the T-54. A revolution ary feature of the T-64 is the incorporation of an automatic loader for its 125-mm gun,allowing a crewmember's position to be omitted, and helping to keep the size and weight of the tank downand 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 for mation s 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 Sou the rn Group of Forces (SFG). By 1981 the improved T-64B began to be deployed in East Germany and later in Hungary.