Battlefront – Team Yankee – World War III – Iraq – ZSU-57-2 AA Company

£14.00

Includes two resin and metal ZSU-57-2 Anti-aircraft Tanks.

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Description

Includes two resin and metal ZSU-57-2 Anti-aircraft Tanks.

This self-propelled anti-aircraft gun mounted two 57mm anti-aircraft guns in a twin mount. The guns were high velocity and had a rate of fire in excess of 200 rounds per minute. Lacking radar, they struggled with fast jets. Iraq ordered 100 ZSU-57-2 anti-aircraft tanks in 1970 from the Soviet Union and they were delivered between 1971 and 1973. A few were given to the Chinese for reverse-engineering, and subsequencely Iraq operated a number of Chinese built Type 80 copies of the ZSU-57-2.