Hobby Master HG3607 ROC Taiwanese Army M24 Chaffee Tank 1/72

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Because of several deficiencies a new tank was needed to replace the M-3 Stuart. The M-24, referred to by some as the Chaffee, was given angled armor thereby increasing its thickness. The M-24 was given a larger 75 mm gun as well as being the first US tank to use a torsion bar suspension. The M-24 didn�t do very well in Korea against the T34/85 so it was given secondary roles to the M26 and M46. The M41 Bulldog replaced the M24 in US service by 1953.

Included in the RoC Army (Republic of China Taiwan) arsenal of 480 M-60A3s, 450 M-48Hs and 300 M-48A5 medium tanks, are 708 much older M-41 as well as 292 older M-24 light tanks. In the early 1950s Taiwan acquired the M-24 Chaffees and this made it possible to create two armored divisions. These were the 1st at Hokou and the 2nd at Taichung. The Chaffees also made it possible to form 4 tank battalions (701st, 702nd, 711th, 731st) in Kinmen. Some of these divisions still lacked sufficient numbers of M-24s to bring them up to full strength so they became a mixer of M-24 and M-18 76mm TDs. In the late 1950s the U.S. started to supply the more modern M41 so that by the late 1960s the M-24 had disappeared from the Divisions and only existed with the 4 battalions and eventually was placed into storage

Specifications :

Date of service: 1944

Country: United States of America

Type: Light Tank

Crew: 5

Dimensions: Length - 5.49 m (18 ft) Width - 2.95 m (9.7 ft) Height - 2.77 m (9 ft)

Combat weight: 18,207 kg (20 tons)

Engine: Twin Cadillac 44T24 V-8 220 horsepower gasoline

Speed: 54 km/h (33.5 mph)

Range: 160 km (99 mi)

Armament:

1 X 75mm M6 main gun 2 X .30 caliber Browning machine guns 1 X .50 caliber Browning machine gun 1 X M3 mortar

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