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Note on Russian Kubinka Museum


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The Russian armor museum at Kubinka includes numerous

interesting vehicles, including an M46 captured in Korea, an M48A3 captured

in Vietnam, an M60A1 delivered by an Iranian defector, and a Magach-4 (a US

M48 modified by Israel to use a 105mm gun). Most interesting is a German

World War II Maus super-heavy tank. The West has long known that two

prototypes of this vehicle were in tests and captured by the Russians. One

story is that the one in the Kubinka museum is a third prototype which was

actually completed, but a more likely story (there are several) is that it

was built from the two prototypes (which the Germans tried to blow up) and

six other unfinished copies of the Maus

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