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Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 02:18 AM UTC
at Hobbyeasy
http://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/data/brxarmgcnqhgnadelyq8.html

Price : USD 38.72 plus shipping (as a reference, to Argentina AIR-Registered:USD 17.19)
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Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 - 10:38 AM UTC
What's the background on this tank.Never heard or seen it anywhere.

Tom
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Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 - 10:51 AM UTC
Here is a link to what I found

http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=295
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Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 - 01:59 PM UTC

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What's the background on this tank.Never heard or seen it anywhere.

Tom


The main idea of this design was to develop a tank capable of resisting the blast of a near nuclear explosión.
That's the reason of the "boat-like" shape of the hull, and the use of four tracks to increase ground contact mantaining a low ground pressure per inch.
Only one prototype was actually built before Kruschev's doctrine sent all the heavy tanks projects to the "recycle bin"...
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