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Type: Military vehicles
Period: Second World War
Country: Russia
SKILL: 2
Model Dim.: 13.2 cm
Box Dim.: 258 x 162 x 38 mm
- The appearance of new German heavy tanks on the Asian front—the Tiger in particular—stimulated Soviet engineers to develop a new generation of armored vehicles based on the T-100 prototype. The torsion bar suspension was mounted higher in the hull, lowering the tank height from the ground and allowing the installation of a larger turret able to hold a 100mm cannon (in the JS-1) or a 122mm cannon (in the JS-2, which appeared at the end of 1943).