The Russians Are Pulling 70-Year-Old T-55 Tanks Out Of Storage by daxe
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.
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