• Scale 1: 35..
• Length: 275 mm..
• 282 Building parts:.
• 1 figure..

352421: 35 Germany Leopard 2 A5 Main Battle TankAbout the Leopard 2 A5The Leopard 2 is the main battle tank of the German Army and has the most powerful performance among modern tanks. The A5 is its latest version which will surely last well into the 21st century. It features add-on wedge-shaped armor on the front and sides of the turret, electric main stabilizer, etc. With these, defense and commander's firing control systems have been significantly improved on the A5 version, which started to be deployed to the German Army at the end of 1995. About the modelThis construction kit captures the authentic image of Leopard 2 A5 in detail. Overall length: 275mm, overall width: 108mm. All of the features like the add-on wedge-shaped turret armor have been accurately reproduced. The turret side add-on armor and sliding driver's hatch are movable. mantle armored cover moves in conjunction with the main . -fire simulator and a commander figure are included. Some History. . . After WWII German industry returned to once again show its superb tank developing ability, bringing out its first post-war battle tank, the remarkable Leopard 1. The Leopard 1 MBT was the first tank of a family of armoured vehicles such as: Self-Propelled-Anti-Aircraft- "Gepard", Armoured Recovery Vehicle, Armoured Engineer Vehicle and Bridge Laying Vehicle. After combat effectiveness improvement programs the Leopard 1 A5 is still the back of 11 armies land forces on three continents. Development of the Leopard 2 started in 1970. Due to the threat of the cold war times of the early 70's a program for a new main battle tank was started together with the United States and named tank 70 program and wholly improve the Leopard 1. Compound armor was generously added and the turret was redesigned with much angularity. It was ed with a Rhienmetall 120mm L/44 smoothbore main , and powered by a 1500 PS outputting MTU MB873Ka-501 engine. In 1979 the first