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| Subject: | Re: T-80 in Cypriot Service |  |
| Date: | May 19, 2003 |
| From: | Stavros Soulis | |
u r right Bill.
They have the T-80UD, painted in the modern Russian camo with all the external characteristics of the Russian machines plus a strange breathing device (or something similar) behind the turret over the engine grilles. They bought them in 2 "blocks", the tanks of the second one having also "Shtora" IRCM devices. even the crews wear russian tanker's helmets (!). I will try to send you some pictures of them. The only bad thing is that you cannot easily find a model kit in 1/35(the older SMT1989 of Dragon or Skif's T-80UD).
An old issue of IPMS Cyprus magazine had a good description of it but I do not know if it is still available. |
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