ICM 1:35 WWII Soviet Flamethrower Tank OT-34/76 35354
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ICM 1:35 WWII Soviet Flamethrower Tank OT-34/76 35354
The T-34 was Stalin’s mainstay medium tank that was produced in incredible volume by extremely crude methods, and thrown into the fray against the numerically inferior German tanks on the Eastern Front. The designers combined a number of important advances in design such as sloped frontal armour, wide tracks to spread the load, and the ability to cope with the harsh Russian winters without grinding to a halt, which was a problem that affected the Germans badly after the successes in the summer of Operation Barbarossa.
The part count and cost of the tank was continuously reduced during production, with plants turning out up to 1,300 per month at the height of WWII. The initial welded turret was replaced by a cast turret with more room, and later the 76mm gun was replaced by a more powerful 85mm main gun in the T-34/85 with an enlarged turret, giving even the Tiger pause for thought.
The flame variant depicted in this model mounts an internal ATO-41 flame thrower that is fed from the tanks at the rear, and would doubtless put the fear of whatever deity the opponents were fond of, as all soldiers are very easily dismayed by the appearance of a flame thrower of any type, never mind one that also sports a 76mm gun and thanks to the heavy armour can’t easily be destroyed like the man portable devices could.