The T-54/T-55 tank series is the most widely used tank in the world and has seen service in over 50 countries. It has also served as the platform for a wide variety of specialty armoured vehicles. [1][2] Abkhazia: A number of T-55s were in service at the beginning of …

Yugoslav T-55 tank captured by the Croatian army during the Croatian War of Independence now displayed in the city of Valpovo, Croatia. The T-55 has been used by Ethiopia in the conflict with the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia and used by various warring factions in the Somali Civil War after the fall of the dictatorial Siad Barre regime in ...

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.

To improve the battlefield survivability of the widely deployed T-54/T-55 MBTs, a Czech Republic consortium is now marketing an explosive reactive armour (ERA) package. This consortium includes VOP 025 Novy Jicin armoured vehicle facility, Vyzkumny R Zkusebni Ustav PV 010 and Synthesia who supply the actual explosive element.

The WZT-2 was a Polish ARV built on the T-55 hull with the purpose of recovering the T-55. It carried the standard equipment such as stabilization blade, boom crane, winch’s, compartments for other hand held engineering equipment and towing.

The medium tank T-55/54 is a combat track vehicle, originally of the Russian make. The system was developed and produced in series in former USSR since 1955. From 1964, this tank was produced in Poland under the licence, a year later the production was launched also in Czechoslovakia.

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 ...

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.

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 T-55 AGM is an Ukrainian Radical Upgrade of the T-55 Main Battle Tank applicable also to the T-62 and Chinese Type 59 among others. So far it has been exported to Peru.