About the book: year / Supplement to the magazine "MODEL CONSTRUCTION" Ironically, one of the greatest victories of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War was under Kursk was won at a time when Soviet armored and mechanized troops were qualitatively inferior to German ones (see “Armor Collection” No. 3, 1999). By the summer of 1943, when the most painful design flaws of the T-34 were eliminated, the Germans had new Tiger and Panther tanks, which were noticeably superior to ours in terms of the power of their weapons and the thickness of their armor. Therefore, during the Battle of Kursk, Soviet tank units, as before, had to rely on their numerical superiority over the enemy. Only in isolated cases, when the “thirty-fours” managed to get close to the German tanks, did the fire of their guns become effective. The issue of a radical modernization of the T tank was on the agenda.-34.