Sunday, April 28, 2013

AFV Modeller Issue 65

The Soviet war machine arsenal in Afghanistan consisted of many varied tanks and APC’s, many T-54’s were old
stock employing more modern capabilities from various upgrade programmes to bring them up to the standard more closer to the T-55. The model here represents a T-54 model 49m with improvements to fire control, L-2G Luna infra red searchlight, D-10T gun stabilization from a barrel counterweight, Rmsh track incorporating the sprocket which is basically the same hub as the T-54/55 which has the alternative ring of 14 teeth found on the T-72. These upgraded tanks also carried the later “starfish” wheels as opposed to the earlier spiderweb pattern. Along with the Idler wheel which is the standard T-55 pattern, earlier ones having a ring at the outer edge.

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