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Item Name: .Russian T-72B3 Reactive Armor Main Battle Tank
Kits .Meng
Scale: .1:35
Builder:.Volcano
Item Status:.Built To Order / Pre-Order

Detail features:

Award winner built and painted T-72B3 with a realistic weathering finish. Classic army green color scheme with accurate decals and unit markings. Great details overall. Top building quality with very high standard accuracy on every individual part. Add on brass photo-etched parts and clear parts. Rotating turret and gun elevation. Reactive Armor details. Track links with road wheel detail. Adding on vehicle tools and more add-on details.

* Total over 1340 parts with top building quality.
* Moulding quality is excellent with detail is extremely sharp.
* PE frets, which include the screens for engine deck and the heat shields for the engine are included.
* PE brass parts on fasteners, mounts, shields and many more.
* Kontakt Reactive Armor with great details.
* Main barrel canvas cover with caps and more details.
* The extremely well-detailed barrel with four sections: Rear barrel, fume extractor, forward barrel and muzzle.
* The upper hull in great detail with glacis and the roof above the driver, which are separate panels with molded on Kontakt-1 ERA.
* The turret is slide mold with great details.
* Hatch open-able and detail is extremely good.
* IR lights on the turret with housing is an impressive piece of slide moulding with cooling ribs very well represented.
* Clear parts are provided for the optics.
* The smoke dischargers have separate caps, which improve the look a lot.
* Machine gun are very detailed.
* Machine gun shield with great canvas details.
* The lower hull in great detail with the attachment of rear wall, self entrenching device, return rollers, idler mounts, shock absorbers and more.
* There are many additional fine details for completion of the hull, like headlights, all the marker lights etc.
* Full-length torsion bars for road wheels w/details.
* The road wheels are even detailed on the inside.
* The separate tracks are connected with clickable hollow guide horns.
* Engine with complete exhaust outlet and the engine bulkhead.
* Adding antenna, gas drum, towing cable, tools and many accessories.

Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasize and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Adding nonglossy paint for better finishing. Great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long-term collection.

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T-72B3 is a recent Russian upgrade of the ageing T-72B tanks. It can be seen as a low-cost alternative to the T-72B2 Rogatka upgrade to keep older T-72B tanks operational. Refurbished and upgraded T-72B3 tanks are fitted with new engine, new gunners sight, new fire control system and have some other improvements. Now this MBT has a limited hunter-killer engagement capability. First upgraded T-72B3 tanks were delivered to the Russian Army in 2013. By 2016 At least 600 older tanks were upgraded to this standard.

During 2014 and 2015 the T-72B3 tanks saw combat during a military conflict in Ukraine. At least a couple of these tanks were destroyer or captured by Ukrainian armed forces. At least one captured tank was pressed into Ukrainian service and used against its former owners. In 2017 the T-72B3 was also used in Syria.

Protection of the upgraded tank was slightly improved. The T-72B3 is fitted with built-in Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor. The same armor is used by the T-80U, T-90 and some other main battle tanks. This armor can effectively defeat most older APFSDS rounds.

Newer version of the T-72B3, which appeared in 2017, which is better protected than the standard T-72B3. It has an added new add-on explosive reactive armor package, which covers rear part of the turret. This tank is also fitted with cage armor, which covers rear parts of the hull and turret and improved side skirts.

The tank is armed with the same 125-mm smoothbore-gun as its predecessor. However autoloader of the T-72B3 has some modifications and can use newly-developed munitions. This tank can launch 9M119 Svir or 9M119M Refleks anti-tank guided missiles in the same manner as ordinary projectiles. Western reporting name for both missiles is AT-11 Sniper. A total of 45 rounds are carried, 22 rounds are stored in the autoloader and ready to use, while remaining are stored inside the hull.

There is a coaxial 7.62-mm machine gun and roof-mounted 12.7-mm machine gun. The roof-mounted 12.7-mm machine gun is controlled manually by the vehicle commander.

The tank has new fire control system and new ballistic computer. Gunner uses new Sosna-U sight with thermal imager. This sight has day/night and all weather combat capability. The T-72B3 has a limited hunter-killer capability even though it lacks commander`s panoramic sight. Vehicle commander can select a target and lay the gun and let the gunner complete all the aiming and firing process. During that time commander looks for the next target. The tank is also fitted with new digital radio system.

Some T-72B3 demonstrator tanks were fitted with commander`s panoramic sight. This sight appeared as standard on the T-72B4 model.

This tank has a crew of three, including commander, gunner and driver.

Initially refurbished and upgraded T-72B3 tanks were powered by original V-84-1 diesel engine, developing 840 hp. However later production tanks were fitted with a new V-92S2F engine, developing 1 130 hp. This tank is also fitted with new tracks.

In 2016 it has been reported that another 150 T-72B tanks will be upgraded to the -B3 or -B3M standard, and additionally fitted with new automatic transmission, similar to that of the T-90MS Tagil demonstrator. This automatic transmission has 7 forward and 1 reverse gear. The T-72B3 will become the first Russian production tank, fitted with automatic transmission. It was planned that the first batch of tanks with automatic transmissions will be delivered in 2017.