Brand: Hobby Master
Model: HG3324, T-54B Russian Medium Tank 815,
Hanoi, April 1975
Material: Diecast
Type: Military Ground
Scale: 1/72
Length: 12.5cm, Width:4.7cm, Height:3.3cm
[Stock Available. Brand new and unused]
Features:
- Authentic Scale
- Die-cast Display Model
- Premium Quality Product
Background:
The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle tanks introduced in
the years following the Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed
at Nizhny Tagil by the end of 1945. From the late 1950s, the T-54 eventually
became the main tank for armoured units of the Soviet Army, armies of the
Warsaw Pact countries, and many others. T-54s and T-55s have been involved in
many of the world's armed conflicts since their introduction in the second half
of the 20th century.
A new version, based on T-54A, designated T-54B (Ob'yekt 137G2), was designed
in 1955. It was fitted with a new 100 mm D-10T2S tank gun with STP-2
"Tsyklon" 2-plane stabilizer. It entered production in 1957. During
the last four months of production, the new tanks were equipped with an L-2
"Luna" infrared searchlight, a TPN-1-22-11 IR gunner's sight, and an
OU-3 IR commander's searchlight. Modern APFSDS ammunition was developed,
dramatically enhancing the penetrative performance of the gun to keep it
competitive with NATO armour developments. T-54B served as the basis for T-54BK
command tank, which had exactly the same additional equipment as the T-54AK
command tank.
During the Vietnam War, the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) used T-54s, along
with its Chinese-built copy (the Type 59), extensively against the South
Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and their allied US forces.
At the very end of the war on the 30 April 1975, a PAVN T-54 smashed through
the main gate of the RVN Presidential Palace in their capital city of Saigon,
accompanied by onrushing North Vietnamese troops, at the conclusion of North
Vietnam's conquering of the South. This widely seen image has come to be
regarded by many as perhaps the defining moment of the end of the bloody
20-year-long conflict in Vietnam, and the fall of Republic of Vietnam. During
the war, PAVN tank units were involved in 211 battles, claimed 20,000+ enemy
killed, destroyed more than 2,000 enemy tanks/APCs, 870 other military
vehicles, and 3,500 enemy bunkers, and shot down 35 aircraft or helicopters,
overwhelmingly using T-54s. The PAVN lost an estimated 250 (1972 - 150,
1973-1975 - 100) T-54s during the war.
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