David Axe writes about ships, planes, tanks, drones and missiles. Desperate to make good the loss of around 2,000 tanks in the first year of its wider war on Ukraine, Russia has begun pulling out of ...

Those 70-year-old T-54 and T-55 tanks that the Russian army is pulling out of long-term storage, possibly in order to recondition them for front-line use in Ukraine, wouldn’t last long in a direct ...

The video traces the Soviet T-55 from its T-34-85 and T-44 roots to the design choices that made it simple to build, run and ...

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With a little more research, I’ve discovered that some newer variants of the T-55 DO have gun stabilization — however, it pales in comparison to more up-to-date gun stabilizers on more modern tanks.

Russia has begun pulling out Soviet-era tanks from the 1295th Central Tank Reserve and Storage Base in the far east The T-54 tank lacks gun stabilization and long-range surveillance scopes The T-55 ...

Summary and Key Points: Russia’s tank stockpile is approaching a critical point of depletion, with recent reports indicating that even Cold War-era T-54/55 tanks are being deployed to the frontlines ...

Israel developed some of the world’s heaviest armored personnel carriers by converting captured T-54/55 tanks and aging Centurions into protected troop carriers. Vehicles such as the Achzarit were ...

Russia appears to now be packing nearly antique T-54/55 tanks with explosives and pointing them at Ukrainian positions on the battlefield, before detonating them under remote control in an attempt to ...

Russia first pulled Cold War-era T-62 tanks out of storage at the end of May 2022, says a report Russia also pulled Soviet-era T-54 and T-55 tanks out of a storage facility in Primorsky in March 2023 ...