A second-gerneration Soviet main battle tank, the T-64 was introduced in service in the early 1960s. It had a number of advanced feature for the time including composite armor, a compact engine and transmission and, from the T-64A at the beginning of the 70s, a new smoothbore 125-mm gun equipped with an autoloader which allowed the reduction of the crew to three. These features made the T-64 expensive to build and more difficult to maintain. Small spring-mounted plates fitted along the mudguards (known as the Gill skirt) covered the top of the suspension and the side of the tank. T-64 were essentially in use in the frontline tank divisions in Germany and were never issued to other Warsaw Pact armies.
The kit is from ModelCollect and give a good rendering of this early model. It is my second version of T-64 (see T-64BV here) and, as it is one of my favorite MBT, I definitively intend to do lots of other version in the future 😎 (made 2022)
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