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GAZ-69 2P26 Baby Carriage walkaround
Wolf239
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St. Petersburg, Russia
Joined: September 05, 2015
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Posted: Friday, May 27, 2016 - 11:26 PM UTC
Hello to all.

I am posting pics of 2P26 Shmel (Bumblbee, or AT-1 Snapper) anti-tank missile vehicle based on GAZ-69 chassis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M6_Shmel . I hope these will be helpful in making of the Bronco Model CB35099 kit http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/a-1-35-gaz-69-2p26-'baby-carriage'/8010 . (I made the pics for assembling the kit myself.)




I took the pics at Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The museum owns a large pool of Cold War Soviet vehicles, and I am going to post some more of them later. Some of this collection is showed here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Courtyard_exposition_of_the_Military-historical_Museum_of_Artillery,_Engineer_and_Signal_Corps
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:External_exposition_of_the_Military-historical_Museum_of_Artillery,_Engineer_and_Signal_Corps

Vehicle performance characteristics (from museum plate):

2P26 COMBAT VEHICLE WITH FOUR 3M6 MISSILES OF THE 2K15 SHMEL ANTI-TANK MISSILE COMPLEX
Put into service in 1960
Lead designer B.I.Shavuirin at KBM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBM
The vehicle purpose is destroying armored targets.
Range capability 600-2000 meters
Firing rate 2 shots per minute
Time into action 40 sec
Time for firing from remote fire control unit 2.5 min
Weight 2370 kg
Base chassis GAZ-69
Crew (operator and mechanic) 2
Missile is guided by wire with use of control system

GUIDED ANTI-TANK MISSILE 3M6
Armor penetration 38.0 cm
Flight cruising speed 105 m/sec (=235 mph)
Missile length 114.8 cm
Case diameter 13.4 cm
All-up weight 24.26 kg

Here is the prototype. (The interior pics are not so good, they were made through the glass which made hot spot from the speedlight , but some important details are still visible.)




























Jacques
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Minnesota, United States
Joined: March 04, 2003
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Posted: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 02:20 AM UTC
Thank you.
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