Armored Train - OB-3 armored railway carriage

Armored Train - OB-3 armored railway carriage with T-26 double turrets
Russia, World War 2
1/72 Scale
Modelkit in plastic
ref: UM 612

Armoured carriages with double turrets of type OB-3 were built at the station Lihobory (Okruzhnaya railway) at the end of 1941. They have been constructed of metal frameworks of biaxial 20 ton railway platforms sheathed with the (27+18) mm ordinary constructional steel by two-layer sheets. On a roof of such armoured carriage were mounted two turrets of tank T-26 (1933). In each turret have been set 45 mm tank gun (21-K) and coupled with it 7.62 mm DT machine gun. Besides there were two onboard DT machine guns, set in trunnion balls, one on each side. Ammunition consisted of some hundred shells and some thousand cartridges. The crew of such carriage consisted of 12-15 fighters. These armoured carriages were a part of Red Army armoured train of No.1, 23 ODBP, which was taking part in the Second World War in fights at the Volkhov front 1942-43.