Soviet T-64A Mod. 1981

Complete kit to build a Soviet T-64A Model 1981

• 1:35 scale
• Dimensions LxW (built): 261 x 105 mm
• 540+ parts
• including photo-etched parts and copper cables
• Lower hull manufactured using the slide mold process
• Segment/single link tracks
• not built/not painted
• Paint and glue not included

Trumpeter is offering seven T-64s. You can purchase them here (if available): TRU01578 Soviet T-64 Mod. 1972 TRU01579 Soviet T-64A Mod. 1981 TRU01580 Soviet T-64AV Mod. 1984 TRU01581 Soviet T-64B Mod. 1975 TRU05521 Soviet T-64B Mod. 1984 TRU05522 Soviet T-64BV Mod. 1985 TRU09592 Ukraine T-64BM Bulat Main Battle Tank

The T-64 was conceived in Kharkov as the next-generation main battle tank by Alexander A. Morozov, the designer of the T-54.

A revolutionary feature of the T-64 is the incorporation of an automatic loader for its 125-mm gun,allowing a crewmember's position to be omitted, and helping to keep the size and weight of the tank down，and the T-64B of 1976 would be able to fire a guided antitank missile through its gun barrel．

The T-64 would be used only by the Soviet Army and never exported, unlike the T-54/55. It was superior to these tanks in most qualitative terms, until the introduction of the T-72B model in 1985. The tank equipped elite and regular formations in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the T-64A model being first deployed with East Germany's Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG) in 1976, and some time later in Hungary's Southern Group of Forces (SFG). By 1981 the improved T-64B began to be deployed in East Germany and later in Hungary.