Was the T54 a good tank?

Predecessors: T-34 and T-44 The Soviet T-34 medium tank of the 1940s is considered to have the best balance of firepower (F-34 tank gun 76.2 mm gun), protection and mobility for its cost of any tank of its time in the world. The T-44 was produced in only small numbers, around 2,000 being completed during the war.

What is the difference between t55 and T-54?

Longer answer: The early T-54 had a different shaped turret. So one big change was the oblate domed turret for which the later T-54s and T-55s are recognized. The older T-54 has a dome-shaped ventilator on the front right of the turret that you don’t see on later tanks and all T-55s.

What is the difference between T-55 and T-54?

Did the t55 have a stabilizer?

The T-54 and T-55 tanks received full gun stabilisation in 1956 with the STP-2 Tsyklon stabiliser system (from D-10 tank gun). The gunner had to be careful to figure out where to aim the stabilised gun around the target to avoid such overshooting.

Was the T-55 a better tank than the Centurion?

The T-55 was a good tank during its time and had some advantages over the Centurion, however the Centurion’s 105 mm L7A1 gun had an effective range of 3600 meter whereas the T-55 had 2200 meter. The Israelis used this range advantage and practiced long range gunnery with all of their crews. In the flat terrain of t

How hard is it to operate a T-54/55?

The T-54/55 tanks are mechanically simple and robust. They are very simple to operate compared to Western tanks, and do not require a high level of training or education in their crew members. The T-54/55 is a relatively small main battle tank, presenting a smaller target for its opponents to hit.

What is the difference between T-54B and t54ak?

Modern APFSDS ammunition was developed, dramatically enhancing the penetrative performance of the gun to keep it competitive with NATO armour developments. T-54B served as the basis for T-54BK command tank, which had exactly the same additional equipment as the T-54AK command tank.

What happened to the T-54A and T-55’s gun?

By the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the T-54A and T-55’s gun was starting to lose its competitive effectiveness relative to the 105 mm Royal Ordnance L7 gun mounted in Israeli Centurion Mk V and M60A1 tanks. Israeli tanks fitted with the L7 105mm gun suffered greatly from the new Soviet HEAT 3БК5 ammunition fired by the T-55s.