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Trumpeter: JS-5 Heavy Tank
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Posted: Sunday, August 04, 2019 - 01:22 AM UTC


A recent release, take a look at what Trumpeter has inside the box.

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UGBEAR
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Posted: Sunday, August 04, 2019 - 09:22 PM UTC
really, trumpeter/someone really should spend some time on a T-72A early or T-72M1

and eventually, the long awaited T-72 ural......
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Posted: Monday, August 05, 2019 - 02:36 AM UTC
I was going to post about it just being another name for the T-10 but then realised the engine deck is different...
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Posted: Monday, August 05, 2019 - 04:45 AM UTC
Not familiar with the JS-5... did it go into production before being replaced by the T54/55 series or was it an interim/ prototype? Off to the reference library for me.
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Posted: Monday, August 05, 2019 - 05:55 AM UTC
The USSR at the time was producing both heavy tanks (IS series) and mediums (T-44, 54, 55 etc), prior to going for the dual MBT line which they found could carry just as powerful a main gun but 20 tons lighter (cheap and cheerful T-55, T62 line or expensive composite armour, gas turbine, autoloader line as in the T-64).

The heavies were based on the IS-2 line, then IS-3 a couple of hundred IS-4, the IS-5, IS-6 and IS-7 were various protypes only, the only other which went into production was IS-8, which Kruschev renamed the T-10 after de-Stalinisation of the USSR.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 07, 2019 - 06:16 AM UTC
Thanks, Eoin, I guessed that it was something like that and appreciate the info!
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