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The Ukrainian army seems to have lost its first ex-Slovenian M-55S tank. A video that circulated online on Thursday depicts one of the super-upgraded T-55 tanks eating a Russian artillery shell.
Slovenia recently transferred 28 M-55S tanks to Ukraine in exchange for German trucks, raising eyebrows over the deal's ...
Slovenia has handed over 28 M-55S tanks to Ukraine in exchange for which, under an agreement with Germany, it will receive 35 heavy trucks and five German-made water tankers. "Slovenia has fulfilled ...
Slovenia donated all 28 of its 36-ton, four-person M-55S tanks—1990s Israeli upgrades of ex-Soviet T-55s from the mid-1950s—last fall after Germany offered some military trucks in exchange.
Slovenia’s M-55S is an advanced iteration of the 1950’s Soviet T-55 tank, boasting firepower, targeting, protection system, and engine upgrades. The first M-55 tanks were delivered to Slovenia ...
A T-55 battle tank of Russian origin was installed as a war trophy at the Dalhousie Public School, some 120-km north-west of this Himachal Pradesh town, attracting scores of visitors.
Along with the T-34, the T-55 is close to being the archetypal Soviet tank because of its mass production and broad deployment over the past 60 years. While it was outgunned by its NATO rivals in ...
T-55 tanks drive through the streets of Prague, capital of what was then Czechoslovakia, in 1968. Reg Lancaster/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
The T-55 carried a variety of different ammunition types, including high explosive-fragmentation and anti-tank rounds. T-54 and T-55 variants had a cabin layout that mirrored many post-World War ...
T-55 tanks drive through the streets of Prague, capital of what was then Czechoslovakia, in 1968. Reg Lancaster/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.