307230 Modeler 1/72 World war II tank 34/85

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The appearance in service of the Wehrmacht new tanks PzKpfwVI"Tiger" and PzKpfwV "Panther" forced Soviet designers to look for ways to increase the firepower of the main Soviet tank T-34-76. This was prompted by the plans of grandiose offensive operations, which were planned to be carried out in 1944. The problem of equipping the T-34 a new gun of larger caliber were not so simple - the increased size of the tools required to increase the size of the tower. The attempt to establish a more powerful 85 mm gun in the old tower T-34-76 was not successful, testing of these tanks built at the factory "Red Sormovo" in the summer of 1943 gave unsatisfactory results. By this time, several options were proposed 85-mm tank guns D-5T, LB-1, S-50 and S-53. The new tower was developed by the Ural tank plant No. 112 at the end of 1943. The results of the test has been adopted a tank with a gun S-53, but the series went T-34-85 with a gun D-5 as-53 was half-cocked. After its debugging and testing, it received the ZIS-S-53 index and became the main for the T-34-85 tank. In January 1944, the T-34-85 serial production was established at the plant №183. His car was distinguished by the configuration of the tower, rollers and minor changes in equipment. Until the end of the war, tank design continued to improve. On the machines of the plant No. 112 were changed to the shape of the tower, the junction of the frontal armor on a tank has become more pointed. Such tanks began to appear in the army in the last months of the war. the Battle path of the T-34-85 did not end on the battlefields of world war II. Tanks of this type participated in armed conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, in the middle East. These machines fought at Playa girón, reflecting the invasion of Cuba, were used in the civil war in Yugoslavia and conflict in the horn of Africa as part of the army of Ethiopia.

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