Trumpeter 1/35 01581 T-64B MBT 1975 Version Plastic Kit
Trumpeter 01581 1/35 Scale Soviet T-64B Main Battle Tank - 1984 Version
Dimensions - Length 261mm Width 105mm.
Components include clear plastic items and photo etched detailing parts, in total over 550 components make up the kit. The tracks have individual plastic links and the moulded lower hull has fine details. Decals and full instructions are also supplied.
Glue and paints are required
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 crewmember'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.