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IDAP Technology 1/72 PMI0158B RBT-5
3D PRINTING
High quality resin model kit for assembly and painting.
Super-Glue is required for gluing. It is quite easy to assemble!
The RBT-5 was a Soviet prototype "missile tank" from the interwar period. The first copy of this tank was made in 1931 or 1932, and its public presentation took place in 1933. However, the machine never entered mass production. The drive was provided by a single M-5 engine with a power of 400 hp. The armament of the vehicle consisted of a single mod. 32 caliber 45 mm machine gun, a 7.62 mm machine gun and, most likely, two 132 mm or 245 mm or 420 mm unguided rocket launchers.
The RBT-5 was a kind of development version of the BT-5 fast tank. It differed from mass-produced examples with a rocket launcher installed on the sides of the turret. It was assumed that the new vehicle would provide direct support to its own advancing tank units, and the range of the rocket weapons used on the RBT-5 is estimated at around 1,200-1,500 meters. It is worth noting, however, that launchers of various calibers were mounted and tested on the prototype of this vehicle, which of course had an impact on the range of the effective shot. Ultimately, however, it turned out that the RBT-5 is very easy to destroy by shooting at the rockets carried in unprotected launchers. For this reason, the development of this unusual construction was withdrawn.
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