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Armor and AFVs of the IDF army from 1947-today.
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ZPU-1 in IDF service?
MikePowell
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Joined: March 19, 2010
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 05:58 PM UTC
Just acquired Meng's Russian Light AA Gun Set and nosing around the internet I see a picture of a ZPU-1 at the Batey ha-Osef Museum, Tel Aviv and that Wikipedia lists Israel as a ZPU "user". Further trolling draws blanks.

Does anyone know if Israel did employ the ZPU-1 or is the museum piece a trophy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPU#/media/File:ZPU-1-batey-haosef-1.jpg
Wolf239
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Joined: September 05, 2015
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 10:21 PM UTC
This is not exactly what you are looking for, but still may help. Since you’ve got all ZPU range in one kit, here are more IDF trophy ZPU’s on ZiL-157 trucks which can be an interesting prototype. For example, you could use Trumpeter ZiL kits lineup.
https://www.drive2.ru/c/913273/
These pics were taken at IAF Museum, Hatzerim Airbase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatzerim_Airbase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force_Museum
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