IDF Tiran-6 MBT. TRUMPETER 05576

Assembly plastic kit of a IDF Tiran-6 MBT. The kit consists of over 610 parts, including metal gun barrel, brass cable, photoetched parts, individual tracks links...

IDF Tiran-6 is modernization of ex-Syrian T-62. Fitted with laser rangefinder and thermal imaging sight for the gunner. The tank was also fitted with US-made radio. Some Tiran-6 have "Blazer" reactive armour tiles fitted to the hull and turret. Tiran-6s also have a flat plate bustle rack added to the turret rear, two stowage bins (one on the right side of the turret and other one on the rear of the turret), larger headlight bracket on the glacis plate and pintle mounts for machine guns on the turret roof in front of each hatch. The 12.7 mm DShK 1938/46 antiaircraft heavy machine gun was replaced by an M1919 Browning light machine gun. The M2 Browning heavy machine gun was mounted on top of the mantlet of the main gun.