KIT PREVIEW Tamiya 1:35 M18 U.S. Tank Destroyer • Kit No. 35376
The M18 Hellcat (officially designated the 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M18or M18 GMC) is a tank destroyer that was used by the United States Army in the Second World War and the Korean War.
It was the fastest U.S. armoured fighting vehicle on the road.
This speed was attained by keeping armour to a minimum, using the innovative Torqmatic automatic transmission, and by equipping the relatively light vehicle with the same main gun used on some variants of the much larger Sherman tank.
Entering service in 1944, the M18 served primarily in Western Europe, but was also present in the Pacific. M18 strength in the European Theatre of Operations varied from 136 in June 1944 to a high of 540 in March 1945. Losses totalled 216.