As usual with Tamiya, the quality of the model is excellent. From an historic perspective the T-26 is a very special tank developed by GM's Fisher Body and the Army in late WWII. Finally, this version got away from the difficult Volute Spring type suspension used in the M-4 Tanks and went to torsion bar suspension.
This T-26 was the prototype for the later M-26 Tank. Very late in WWII, Department of the Army sent only 25 of the prototypes into the European theater of war. At long last, the 3rd and other Armored Divisions were able to compete with German Panthers and Tigers on a head to head basis with that 25 tanks. This is the tank that, in the 3rd Armored Spearhead Division, won its match with a German Panther in the famous Tank Battler in Cologne in 1945.
The T-26 prototype became the M-26 and was the grandfather design for the M-47, M-48 and M-60, our main battle tanks before the superb M-1 Abrams was designed and built in the 1980's.
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As usual with Tamiya, the quality of the model is excellent. From an historic perspective the T-26 is a very special tank developed by GM's Fisher Body and the Army in late WWII. Finally, this version got away from the difficult Volute Spring type suspension used in the M-4 Tanks and went to torsion bar suspension.This T-26 was the prototype for the later M-26 Tank. Very late in WWII, Department of the Army sent only 25 of the prototypes into the European theater of war. At long last, the 3rd and other Armored Divisions were able to compete with German Panthers and Tigers on a head to head basis with that 25 tanks. This is the tank that, in the 3rd Armored Spearhead Division, won its match with a German Panther in the famous Tank Battler in Cologne in 1945.The T-26 prototype became the M-26 and was the grandfather design for the M-47, M-48 and M-60, our main battle tanks before the superb M-1 Abrams was designed and built in the 1980's.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2019
As usual with Tamiya, the quality of the model is excellent. From an historic perspective the T-26 is a very special tank developed by GM's Fisher Body and the Army in late WWII. Finally, this version got away from the difficult Volute Spring type suspension used in the M-4 Tanks and went to torsion bar suspension.
This T-26 was the prototype for the later M-26 Tank. Very late in WWII, Department of the Army sent only 25 of the prototypes into the European theater of war. At long last, the 3rd and other Armored Divisions were able to compete with German Panthers and Tigers on a head to head basis with that 25 tanks. This is the tank that, in the 3rd Armored Spearhead Division, won its match with a German Panther in the famous Tank Battler in Cologne in 1945.
The T-26 prototype became the M-26 and was the grandfather design for the M-47, M-48 and M-60, our main battle tanks before the superb M-1 Abrams was designed and built in the 1980's.
This T-26 was the prototype for the later M-26 Tank. Very late in WWII, Department of the Army sent only 25 of the prototypes into the European theater of war. At long last, the 3rd and other Armored Divisions were able to compete with German Panthers and Tigers on a head to head basis with that 25 tanks. This is the tank that, in the 3rd Armored Spearhead Division, won its match with a German Panther in the famous Tank Battler in Cologne in 1945.
The T-26 prototype became the M-26 and was the grandfather design for the M-47, M-48 and M-60, our main battle tanks before the superb M-1 Abrams was designed and built in the 1980's.
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