TIRAN 4 "SHARIR" (late type) - 1970 - with interior kit

Description

The meaning of Tiran in Hebrew is beginner. Israel s chronic lack of AFV s on one hand and it s phenomenal victory in the 1967 Six Days War on the other, brought the IDF to adopt captured enemy vehicles for it s use. The Arab armies lost hundreds of fighting vehicles - mostly Egyptian T-54 and T-55 MBT s which were abandoned by their crews. In order to allow for greater standardization in it s armor corps, the IDF initiated a conversion program. The captured tanks were re-engined and re-gunned (with the standard 105mm gun used in the Centurion and Patton MBT s). Chief was the several hundred captured T-54/T-55 tanks that were taken and modified into the Tiran 4 (T-54) and Tiran 5 (T-55), called Ti-67 (Tank Israeli-1967) in the west. The main difference between the two versions is the main gun armament. The Tiran 4 having a 100 mm main gun and the Tiran 5 having a 105 mm main gun. (Scale : 1/35e)