The T-55 is an upgraded T-54, which was the Soviet Union’s main tank in the years immediately following World War II. The T-54 first appeared in 1946. The T-55 appeared in 1958.
The T-55 weighs 40 tons. It has a crew of four—commander, gunner, loader and driver—and sports a minimally-stabilized 100-millimeter rifled main gun and, at best, an 800-horsepower engine. Its steel armor is 200 millimeters thick at its thickest—a level of protection that even a single Ukrainian soldier firing a Carl Gustav recoilless rifle should have no trouble defeating. To say nothing of Ukraine’s artillery and mines and, yes, its slowly growing arsenal ofThe Soviet army finally replaced the last of its tens of thousands of T-54s and T-55s in the 1980s—and placed the survivors in storage as a war reserve.
A war reserve the beleaguered Russian army apparently now is tapping. Don’t expect the 70-year-old tanks to make much difference in Ukraine.
Where is the USA Ahram tanks😀😀😀😀
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And so? Doesn't it kill?
Proxy wars are weapon recycling programs to turnover obsolete inventory.
Is Stalin back?
Hopeful of History repeating itself from World War One when there was not a gun made to destroy them A vain hope for the steel coffins of today's wars.
TANKS for the Memory
They must recycle this story. I've seen the identical piece of reporting at least 3 different times since the war began. All the news reported on this conflict has zero credibility with me. All lies, on both sides.
Russia has superior anti-tank weapons, why wouldn't they use old equipment first to draw anti-tank fire then decimate those positions. Russia lost 30 million people to Nazis, they will not lose to Ukrainian Nazis.
Same thing other war mongers like US are doing there, getting rid of their old inventory to make room for more death machines to profit off of.
Please, even T-55 is really deadly weapons, do not underestimate....
The old way is always the best way