72412 Armory 1/72 American tank M41A1/A2

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the Light tank M41 Walker Bulldog, designed to replace the M24 Chaffee and is an enlarged copy of it, began to be designed in 1946, despite the fact that the concept of this machine originated in 1942, during the development of the T20 medium tank. Therefore, in its combat weight T37 (prototype M41) approached the weight of the first modifications of the Soviet medium tank T-34, and the power of weapons – surpassed it.
in 1949, I was ready the first version of the new light tanks – T37-I, equipped with a 76.2-mm gun M32. In the next version of the T37-II tower installed a new form with a reinforced mask. The machine was equipped with a gun stabilization system and a rangefinder, as well as improved racks for combat. On the modification T37-III, which later became the light tank M41, automation has reached a new level: you installed the autoloader, and gun stabilization were replaced by new ones made by IBM.
In 1950, the machine was adopted under the M41 Little Bulldog index, but later, after the death in Korea as a result of a car accident of General W. Walker, it was renamed Walker Bulldog. In the same year, the Cadillac Motor Car M41 Walker Bulldog was put into production and entered the army in 1951.