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In every issue of the Combat Tanks Collection is a model of the tanks and the accompanying magazine provides all the information on the tank's history and features.
Each issue is available in POPULAR every forthninght. There are 70 or 120 tanks to collect I think..... we are now only at Issue 24
Weight - 56.9 tonnes Length - 6.316 m and 8.45 m gun forward Width - 3.70 m Height - 3.0 m Crew - 5 Armour - 25120 mm Main Armament - 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56 Operational Range - 110195 km Speed - 38 km/h
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The Tiger I was a German heavy tank of World War II deployed from 1942 in Africa and Europe usually in independent heavy tank battalions. It was the German's first armoured fighting vehicle that mounted the formidable KwK 36 88-mm gun.
Weight - 61.3 tonnes Length - 9.77 m gun forward Width - 3.66 m Height - 2.44 m Crew - 4 (commander, gunner, loader, driver) Armour - 600 mm Main Armament - 120 mm L44 M256 smoothbore cannon Operational Range - 426 km Speed - Road 67 km/h Off-road: 40 km/h
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The M1 Abrams is an American third-generation main battle tank. It is named after General Creighton Abrams, former Army chief of staff and commander of United States military forces in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. Highly mobile, designed for modern armored ground warfare.
Weight - 36 tonnes Length - 6.45 m Width - 3.37 m Height - 2.4 m Crew - 4 Armour - 80 - 100mm Main Armament - D-10T 100 mm main gun Operational Range - 390 km Speed - 50 km/h
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An upgraded version of the T-55 tank. The T-55A had a higher level of nuclear protection. From 1962 through 1970, about 1,800 of the T-55 and T-55A tanks were supplied to East Germany by the Soviet Union.
Weight - 45.5 tonnes Length - 9.87 m gun forward Width - 3.42 m Height - 2.71 m Crew - 5 Armour - 80 - 100mm, 45mm @ side, 40mm @ rear Main Armament - 8.8 cm Pak 43/3 or 43/4 L/71 Operational Range - 160 km Speed - 46 km/h
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The Jagdpanther is one of the most iconic tank destroyers of World War 2. Based on the Panther chassis, the famous tank destroyer was produced from 1943 up until the end of the war in 1945.
Weight - 57.3 tonnes Length - 9.67 m gun forward Width - 3.75 m Height - 3.00 m Crew - 4 Armour - 590 - 690 mm Main Armament - 120 mm smoothbore gun L/44 Operational Range - 500 km Speed - 68 km/h
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The Leopard 2A5 is the first version of the Leopard 2 series tank which have angled arrow-shaped turret appliqué armour together with other improvements.