HUNGARIAN MEDIUM TANK 41 M "TURAN" II

Description

The standard 40 mm (1.57 in) gun was completely inefficient against the Russian T-34 and KV-1. Hungarian designers attempted to mount a 75 mm (2.95 in) M41 short barreled gun, derived from the Bohler M18 field gun, on a prototype, in order to perform various tests on flat and sloped armors. The turret was enlarged to house the massive breech loading system and a special armored recoil piston was adapted to the gun. This made the turret interior cramped and crowded. New vents were designed to extract the massive fumes that followed the blast. The 41M Turán II first appeared in May 1943, was produced to an extent of 139 between 1943 and 1944, ending with the Soviet occupation of Hungary. (Scale : 1/35e)