The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet medium tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed...
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The T-54/T-55 tank series is the most widely used tank in the world and has seen service in over 50 countries. It has also served as the platform for...
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It was 1 ton lighter than the T-34-85 and slightly faster. The T-44 was heavily influential on the design of the T-54/55 Medium tank, most prominently...
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The T-72 is a Soviet-designed main battle tank that entered production in 1973. It replaced the T-54/55 series as the workhorse of Soviet tank forces...
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The T-62 is a Soviet main battle tank that was first introduced in 1961. As a further development of the T-55 series, the T-62 retained many similar design...
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Tanks of the Soviet Union (section T-54/55)
Object 704 (Upgraded version to the ISU-152) T-10 T-54/55 T-62 T-64 PT-76 T-72 T-80 T-14 Armata T-90 T-95 (cancelled) BT-SV (BT-SW-2) Object 140 Object...
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55 (fifty-five) is the natural number following 54 and preceding 56. 55 is the tenth Fibonacci number. The atomic number of caesium. Messier object M55...
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Tanks of North Korea (section T-54/55)
and 500 in 2000; ~3500 T-34s, T-54s, T-55s, T-62s and Type 59s in 2004; and more than 3500 in 2006 through 2014. Some 2000 T-55 and Type 59 Tanks are thought...
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made arms and equipment exists ranging from rifles to tanks such as the T-54/55. However, the Lebanese army is still trying to rearm and modernize itself...
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Design Bureau of Ukraine. The Tifon (Typhoon)-2A is based on the Soviet T-54/55 tank. The tank is a 3-man machine with day and night technology and a thermal...
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Type 59 tank (redirect from T-59 (tank))
tank is a Chinese-produced version of the Soviet T-54A tank, an early model of the ubiquitous T-54/55 series. The first vehicles were produced in 1958...
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to T-54/55, T-62 and T-64 tanks. The plow has nowadays been mostly replaced by the modern version KMT-7 that can be installed to T-72, T-80 and T-90 series...
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battle tanks. Derivatives have even been mounted in Warsaw Pact-built T-54 and T-55 tanks in Israel, India, Egypt and Iraq, and Type 79 tanks in China....
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the T-54 (which, in the meantime, would be incrementally improved by Leonid N. Kartsev's Nizhny Tagil bureau, by the models T-54A, T-54B, T-55, and T-55A)...
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Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (redirect from GKB-T-34)
and later took up production of T-54, T-55 (1958, the most-produced tank ever), and T-64 (from 1967) tanks. The T-64 was also built in the Leningrad...
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T-44, then the T-54 and T-55 series of tanks, which in turn evolved into the later T-62, that form the armoured core of many modern armies. T-34 variants...
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List of main battle tanks by country (section T)
David. "70-Year-Old T-55 Tanks Are 'Expendable' In Ukraine". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-08-15. Axe, David. "Russia Sent 70-Year-old T-55 Tanks To Ukraine Without...
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IMR-2 was developed to replace aging IMR which was built on the basis of T-54/55 tank. The IMR-2 combat engineering vehicle is in service with Russian Army...
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the T-54/55 and T-62 MBTs, used before in the Soviet Union. From a distance, the T-64, T-72 and T-80 look alike. Despite the similarities, the T-80 is...
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T-54/55: in some upgraded variants Tiran-4Sh: Israeli modification of T-54, both L7 and M68 variants fitted Tiran-5Sh: Israeli modification of T-55,...
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Books. ISBN 978-1-85367-258-3. Zaloga, Steven; Johnson, Hugh (2004). T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944–2004. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-792-1. Wikimedia...
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to Vietnam about 70 T-54 and T-55 tanks from the Soviet era. In early March 2005, Poland signed a contract to sell to Vietnam 150 T-72 tanks which would...
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fifty-four in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 54 (fifty-four) is the natural number following 53 and preceding 55. 54 is an abundant number and a semiperfect...
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Type 72Z (redirect from Type T-72Z)
(also known as the T-72Z and the Safir-74, and the Al-Zubair I in Sudan) is a highly modernized version of the Type 59 and T-54/T-55 tanks, with upgrades...
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The MT-55, Base T-55, was designed and produced by ZŤS Martin from 1962 (the former Czechoslovakia was one of the countries that build the T-54/55 series...
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armed forces. Somaliland has 45 T-54/55 tanks and, 20 armoured fighting vehicles, 50 rocket projectors, and has about 55+ pieces of artillery in its national...
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Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank (2018), Appendix eight: known customers and users of the T‑54 medium tank, p. 182. Kinnear, Sewell & Aksenov, Soviet T-55 Main...
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Switzerland: Replaced by Leopard 2 United Kingdom: Replaced by Chieftain T-54/55 (Soviet Union) T-62 (Soviet Union) M26 Pershing (US) M46 Patton (US) M47 Patton...
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The T-55AGM is a medium tank, a Ukrainian modernization of the T-54/T-55 developed by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau. The T-55AGM...
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II tank is a heavily modernized T-55 main battle tank designed for and used by the Egyptian Armed Forces. A single T-54 was sent to the United States for...
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