Ba-64B

Ba-64B

CountryURSS
Role

Armoured Scout Car

Built9110+

The BA-64 was a 4×4 light armoured car, employed by the Soviet Army from 1942 into the early 1960s for reconnaissance and liaison tasks. The BA-64B was nicknamed ‘Bobik’ by its crews. The total recorded number of BA-64s produced differs even in Russian sources. The most frequently-stated figures are 9,110 (3,901 BA-64 and 5,209 BA-64B) vehicles which were built in the GAZ automobile plant, although a memorial plaque near the pictured Nizhny Novgorod car states 9,063 cars. The Red Army representatives accepted only 8,174 BA-64s, including 3,390 with radio sets; the other vehicles were transferred to NKVD units and Soviet allies.

Source: Ba-64B on Wiki

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Wydawnictwo Militaria 320 - KW vol.III

Wydawnictwo Militaria

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Wydawnictwo Militaria 320

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Chars KV – Kliment Voroshilov

Signed documentation Wydawnictwo Militaria le livre «Chars KV – Kliment Voroshilov – Wydawnictwo 320» .

The tank Kliment Voroshilov (KV) is a Soviet rupture tank. It was an unpleasant surprise for the Wehrmacht during Operation Barbarossa: at the time it was almost invulnerable to all its weapons except the 88 mm Flak anti-aircraft gun and direct artillery fire.

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Wydawnictwo Militaria 259 T-34

Wydawnictwo Militaria

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Militaria Publishing House 259

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Tank T-34

Signed documentation Wydawnictwo Militaria le livre «Char T-34 – Publishing House 259» .

The T-34 was a medium tank that entered service in 1940 with the Red Army. At the time, it was a remarkable balance between the three major factors that defined the quality of an armoured vehicle: firepower, protection and mobility. This success made it one of the Soviet Union's strengths in the face of the invasion of the Wehrmacht. In order to counter it, it will have to revise its armoured design policy by developing, for example, the Panzer-V 'Panther', which borrowed some of its technical features from the T-34. Although quickly surpassed by foreign production, the T-34 remained in production from 1940 to 1958, with a total of units produced estimated at 84,070, making it the second most produced tank of all time, just behind its successors, the T-54 and T-55.

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Wydawnictwo Militaria 56 Jagdpanzer 38(t) HETZER

Wydawnictwo Militaria

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Wydawnictwo Militaria 056

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Jagdpanzer 38(t) - Hetzer - sdkfz.138/2

Signed documentation Wydawnictwo Militaria the book "Jagdpanzer 38(t) - Hetzer - Wydawnictwo Militaria 056.

The Jagdpanzer 38(Sd.Kfz. 138/2) known as Hetzer (approximately translated as a Tracker or Trapper in German), is a German World War II tank destroyer built on the chassis of the Czech Panzer 38(t).

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Wydawnictwo Militaria 15 Panzer colours

Wydawnictwo Militaria

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Military Publishing House 015

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Panzers

Signed documentation Wydawnictwo Militaria le livre «Panzers Colors- Publishing House Militaria 015» .

Panzer est un vocable allemand signifiant “blindé”. Si le mot peut s’appliquer aujourd’hui à tous les engins cuirassés allemands, des origines jusqu’à nos jours, l’usage fait qu’il désigne essentiellement les blindés chenillés à tourelle allemands de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (panzerkampfwagen, véhicule blindé de combat, en abrégé PzKfw), lesquels eurent une conception et un emploi tactique particuliers. Le terme générique est moins utilisé pour les MBT (main battle tank) allemands de l’après-guerre (Leopard 1 et 2), similaires aux autres systèmes d’armes occidentaux. A noter que si l’historiographie française utilise le pluriel “panzers”, l’usage actuel admet le pluriel d’origine panzer en italique. De plus, certains ouvrages d’histoire militaire utilisent ce mot comme abréviation de grandes unités blindées (“2ème panzer” signifiant 2ème division blindée ou 2.Panzerdivision). Les panzer, surtout ceux de la deuxième moitié de la guerre, étaient très redoutés, moins nombreux mais souvent plus dangereux que ceux de leurs adversaires. Les chars lourds Tigre et Tigre II étaient ainsi les véhicules les plus lourdement blindés de leur époque. Le panzer IV fut le blindé allemand le plus utilisé durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il a opéré sur tous les fronts : Pologne, France, Balkans, Grèce, front de l’Est, Afrique du Nord, Italie, etc.

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Soviet Komintern Artillery Tractor - Trumpeter 05540

Trumpeter

Ref 05540
TopicModels
Scale1/35
Sujet

Soviet Komintern Artillery Tractor

A model of the brand Trumpeter the kit: Soviet Komintern Artillery Tractor – Trumpeter 05540.

Features : The kit consists of over 330 parts -the kit w/refined detail -multi-slide moulded cabin and lower hull -135 individual tracks links

The Komintern artillery tractor was based on the suspension of the T-12 tank and later the T-24 (2,000 built from 1935 to 1941), powered by a 131-hp diesel engine. Despite the dismal fate of its predecessor tanks, the tractor was more successful and was put into mass production. Of course, the Komintern inherited several of the T-24’s disadvantages, but some of them were fixed by designers, others were not as significant for tractor as for a tank. The Komintern was used to tow medium artillery such as the ML20 152 mm gun-howitzer.

Source: Soviet Komintern Artillery Tractor on Trumpeter

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Soviet KV-85 Heavy Tank - Trumpeter 01569

Trumpeter

Ref 01569
TopicModels
Scale1/35
Sujet

Soviet KV-85 Heavy Tank

A model of the brand Trumpeter the kit: Soviet KV-85 Heavy Tank – Trumpeter 01569.

Features : The kit consists of over 430 parts -the kit w/refined detail -multi-slide moulded lower hull -192 individual tracks links -Photo Etched Parts included

A stopgap upgrade to the KV series was the short-lived KV-85 or Objekt 239. This was a KV-1S with a new turret designed for the IS-85, mounting the same 85 mm D-5T gun as the SU-85 and early versions of the T-34-85. Already-high demand for the gun slowed production of the KV-85 tremendously, and only 148 were built before the KV design was replaced. The KV-85 was produced in the fall and winter of 1943-44; they were sent to the front as of September 1943, and production of the KV-85 was stopped by the spring of 1944 once the IS-2 entered full scale production.

Source: Soviet KV-85 Heavy Tank by Trumpeter

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The Photo Journal of the Second World War No.27 - ALLIED-AXIS 27

Ampersand Publishing

CollectionAllied-Axis
Ref27
TopicDocumentation
Subject

Marder III M

A documentation signed Ampersand Publishing the book «The Photo Journal of the Second World War No.27 – ALLIED-AXIS 27» .

Table of Contents:

  • Marder III M: Panzerjäger 38(t) für 7.5cm PaK40/3 Ausf. M
  • Marine Corps Rockets: International Harvester M-2-4 1-ton 4×4
  • 2cm FlaK 38 Antiaircraft Gun and Sonderanhänger 51
  • A Different Kind of NO: The Mack NO-4 and NO-5

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