Trumpeter 1/35 Soviet MT-LB w/ ZU-23-2 # 09618

 In the 1970s the Soviet began a development program to replace the AT-P series of artillery tractors (which were based on the ASU-57 airborne self-propelled gun) with a new generation of vehicles. The MT-L was developed to meet this requirement based on the PT-76 amphibious light tank chassis. The MT-LB is the armoured variant of the MT-L. Entering production in the early 1970s, it was cheap to build, being based on many existing components like the engine which was originally developed as a truck engine. It was built at the Kharkov tractor plant and under license in Poland and Bulgaria.

Length: 208.5mm   Width: 82mm  

16 sprues , upper hull , lower hull and tires

The kit consists of over 720 parts

the kit w/refined detail

multi-slide moulded lower hull , upper hull

Photo Etched Parts  included

The tracked armored personnel carrier MT-LB was developed in the mid-1960s and entered service in the Soviet Army at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. The vehicle was powered by a single 240 HP diesel engine and took up to 11 landing troops. The crew consisted of two people: the commander and the mechanic-driver. The main armament of the basic version was a single PKT machine gun 7.62 mm in the turret at the front of the vehicle. The MT-LB transporter was originally developed as an artillery tractor for anti-tank guns. The 100 mm T-12, but it was used relatively quickly as an armored personnel carrier. As a result of the high susceptibility of the MT-LB design to modifications based on it, several dozen different types of specialized vehicles were created in the USSR and in the Warsaw Pact countries. These include the 9K35-Strieła 10 set (self-propelled anti-aircraft set), the 2S1 Goździk self-propelled howitzer, the TTLB self-propelled artillery radar or the MT-LB (Pzj) used by the GDR army as a unit intended for anti-tank troops. MT-LB was very widely exported to many countries of the Warsaw Pact as well as Arab and African countries. He also took part in many conflicts, including the war in Afghanistan (1979-1989), the 1991 Gulf War and the Second Chechen War.