[beebuster2000]

good post. thanks

[Timber Rattler]

I’ve actually been aboard a Russian tank, and surprisingly, they are not very big at all, and are hardly monsters. The M1A1 dwarfs them.

[corkoman]

Thanks for the great article. The T-32s I am going up against in War Thunder are remarkably lethal. Not yet seeing any T-54s/55s and until I can upgrade my tanks (still driving cruddy Shermans) I dont want to see them.

[Bluewater2015]

It can’t fire from defilade either. Many T-54/T-55 turrets were zapped by Israeli tank fire back in 1973 for that reason.

[IronJack]

The T-54 was in heavy use by the Iraqis during Gulf War I. I believe they were referred to as “targets.”. I also recall that not a single Abrams was taken out by any Iraqi tank. We lost a couple to mechanical failures but none to enemy counter-fire.

[bert]

——these steel monsters remain the most common tanks in the world-—

-—Factories in the USSR built an estimated 50,000 vehicles and that’s a conservative estimate.——

These statements speak of the capability of the USSR. The only things the USSR could manufacture that was exportable was weapons. There is strong reason to believe that the tanks were sold in droves and Soviet economy existed because of the jobs, but they were never paid. The customers lacked the resources to pay. The soviet bean counters did not distinguish between a paid account and an account receivable.

Today Putin is flying air planes all over. They are weapons. The flights are not saber rattling. The flights are live commercials for Russian weaponry. Russia still lacks the capability to make anything worth a damn besides weapons

[South Dakota]

At the South Dakota state veteran ‘s home in Hot Spring there is one there

[VRW Conspirator]

Yes, but does it have a Hemi?

[Nowhere Man]

A T-54 painted to look like the General Lee from "Dukes of Hazzard." It is from "World of Tanks."