Soviet SMK heavy tank
Named after Sergei Mironovich Kirov, a Communist Party functionary assassinated in 1934, the SMK was one of the projects competing to replace the unreliable and expensive T-35 heavy tank. A design team led by Josef Kotin of the Kirov Plant in Leningrad designed the tank, which was later misidentified by German intelligence as the T-35C. Powered by a liquid-cooled Mikulin GAM-34T aircraft engine with 850 hp, the tank had torsion bar suspension and could reach a top speed of 35 km/h (22 mph) with a 7-man crew. The SMK's main armament was a 76.2mm L-11 main gun in the upper main turret and a 45mm M1932 gun in the lower front turret, supplemented by three 7.62mm DT machine guns. Only one copy was built, and after trials showing the disadvantages of its weight and size compared to the KV tank (and brief service with the 91st Tank Battalion of the 20th Heavy Tank Brigade at the Battle of Summa in the 1939-40 "Winter War" with Finland, where it was disabled by an anti-personnel mine and left unrepaired for 2 months), the project was abandoned in favor of the KV
Plastic model to be glued together by Takom. The kit does not include paint and glue.
Specifications:
- Manufacturer: Takom
- Scale: 1/35
- Part Number: 2112