"Copper Horns" Topic
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Tango01  | 09 Apr 2025 5:12 p.m. PST |
"The need for communications equipment in armoured vehicles became clear soon after their creation. Semaphores and signal flags were just a half measure. It was necessary to equip tanks with radios, but the road to equipping even a part of them was a long one. The modern system with a radio in the turret and a whip antenna was also far from the initial norm. There were many alternative visions of how a tank radio antenna should look.
Rail antennas became one of the characteristic features of Soviet tanks in the interwar years. "Horns" around the turret became a calling card of this generation of tanks. Few people stop to consider where such a strange antenna came from and how it works, especially since their age was brief. They were no longer used by Soviet industry after 1939, as opposed to the nation that came up with them originally…"
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| Captain Pete | 09 Apr 2025 9:48 p.m. PST |
That is a very interesting article. I would love to see someone produce some 1/285th scale turrets with the Russian frame antennas for some of the earlier tanks. |
| Tango01 | 10 Apr 2025 4:00 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it… Armand |
 deadhead | 11 Apr 2025 12:41 p.m. PST |
Something I always just took for granted as a nice modelling effect. I guess I knew their purpose, but these were almost the tank version of spats on aircraft wheels. Look good, but why? Now I know. Great find actually |
| Tango01 | 11 Apr 2025 3:51 p.m. PST |
Thanks my good friend…
Armand
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