Tamiya 35163 - 1/35 JGSDF Type 61 Tank  [35163]

Tamiya 35163 - 1/35 JGSDF Type 61 Tank
Price:
£13.43
Brand:
Tamiya
Model:
35163
Condition:
Brand New
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This tank 's been around use for some time because the primary tank associated with the J.G.S.D.F. It features modernized equipment and it has been recreated in high information.

Regarding the JGSDF Type 61 Tank

Since being officially adopted by Japan's Ground self-defense Force in 1961, the Type 61 tank 's been around constant service for over three years. Although destined become replaced by the advanced level Type 74 along with the newly introduced Type 90 tanks, it's nevertheless considered by many whilst the hub regarding the Japanese Self-defense Forces. Created from the outset to put on a 90mm primary weapon, the tank in addition must be able to traverse the slim railways throughout Japan. The results ended up being a very compact medium tank, with a lower life expectancy profile that's simply 2.96m wide and 2.46m high, and weighing 35 tons. Its 90mm weapon wound up being produced by the Japan Steel Functions, Ltd., utilizing the distinguished U.S. kind M3A1 gun as a pattern. The weapon is installed in a cast metal turret, and elevated either by hand or by hydraulic pressure. Loading is handbook and with the capacity of firing 15 rounds each and every minute. Auxiliary armament is a 12.7mm M2 unit weapon attached to the commander's cupola, and a 7.62mm M1919A4 device gun mounted co-axially because of the main weapon. Powerplant is a Mitsubishi Type 12HM21WT, atmosphere cooled V-12 cylinder, diesel motor, effective at 570 horsepowers which gives a top-speed of approximately 45km/h. A torsion-bar suspension system wound up being used and it is matched towards single-pin caterpillar songs. Minor improvements, such as for instance smoke discharging devices, were placed into keep this venerable armored vehicle inside the front lines of Japan's self-defense operations.

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