T-55 (Ob'yekt 155) [149] – Produced 1958–1963, [150] in Poland 1958–1964, in Czechoslovakia from 1958 to 1983. It has a new turret with floor, PAZ nuclear-blast protection and over-pressure NBC system, gamma ray detector, improved V-55 engine developing 580 horsepower (430 kW) (the engine output was boosted by increasing both pressure of ...

VT-55A Special track vehicle built on a T-55A medium tank chassis. It was designed to recover equipment stuck on an obstacle or equipment damaged in combat or even to make repairs. Its armour, resistance to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and complete drive (engine, gearbox) were maintained and they are identical to the T-55A type.

VT-55A rescue tank is a special armoured tracked vehicle built on the chassis of the T-55A tank. It is designed especially for towing crashed or damaged equipment in various terrain conditions, for rescuing equipment at various degrees of entanglement with …

The T-55 main battle tank (1959) was only superficially identical to the T54A, in fact it was a well-upgraded version, with better gun stabilization and NBC

The T-54/T-55 has been upgraded in the key areas of armour, mobility and firepower. Battlefield survivability has been considerably improved by the fitting of additional passive armour onto the glacis plate of the vehicle while the frontal 180° of the turret has a horseshoe-type armour array which is similar to that installed on some T-54/T-55 ...

The T-54/T-55 tank series is the most widely used tank in the world and it has seen service in over 50 countries. It also served as the platform for a wide variety of specialty armored vehicles.

The Czechoslovak VT-55A Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV) is a pivotal piece of military engineering that has played a significant role in the maintenance and recovery operations of armored units. Developed in the mid-20th century, this vehicle was designed to provide technical support, repair, and recovery services for tanks and other armored ...

From 1969 to 1983, the ZTS factory, located in the Slovak city of Martin, manufactured a copy of the Soviet BTS-2 armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) under designation VT-55A. A T-55A medium tank chassis was modified and specialized equipment such as a 1,500kg capacity crane, a main winch for 75 tons and an auxiliary winch for 8 tons were installed.

In 1990, when reunification was started, the Bundewehr's federal Materiel Depot Service Gesellschaft (MDSG) had to handling some 2,761 tanks (T-54/55 and T-72s of all late variants), IFVs like the BMP-1, BMP-2, BTR-152, 60, 70 and BTR-80, BRDM1/2, but also Polish-Czech vehicles such as the OT-64 and Hungarian Fug armored car.

In the Cold War-era, the Soviet Army and the Warsaw Pact were provided with a wide range of specialised armoured recovery vehicles (ARVs) based on the T-34 and latterly on the T-54 and T-55 chassis.