Presenting the first ever injection kit of the Egyptian Sherman tank. Replacing the original 75mm gun turrets, the Egyptians fitted their Shermans with FL-10 turrets taken from French-built AMX-13 light tanks. This turret with an autoloader allowed the crew to be reduced from 5 to 4. The Shermans also featured diesel engines from M4A2s. These tanks were introduced into Egyptian service in the mid-1950s, seeing action in the Six-Day War against Israel. Postwar evaluations by Israel showed that such special Shermans were similar in capability to its own M51 Isherman.
This 1/35 scale kit is based on Dragon’s excellent Sherman tooling with crisp details, a high degree of accuracy and very easy-to-assemble DS tracks. It includes a brand new turret created especially for this hybrid vehicle. The complex shape of the FL-10 turret from the AMX-13 is extremely well reproduced. Dragon has captured the turret shape perfectly making this Egyptian Sherman an ideal model to build and collect.