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A former Polish T-54 tank at the Panzermuseum Thun in Switzerland. The T-54 can be recognized apart from the highly similar T-55 by the dome-shaped ventilator on the turret's roof and the tiny hole (for the vehicle's bow-mounted 7.62mm machine gun) in the centre of the tank's front glacis plate.
In service 54 SK-105 Kürassier light tanks. Bosnia and Herzegovina: M-84: 71 Yugoslavia: AMX-30S: 50 France: M60A3: 85 United States: T-55: 142 Soviet Union: Botswana: Only SK-105 Kürassier light tanks. Brazil [8] EE-T1 Osório: 2 Brazil: Two operational tanks with the Centro de Instrução de Blindados of the Brazilian Army [9] M60A3 TTS: 91 ...
Tanks; SU-100: 100 mm Tank Destroyer Soviet Union: Used by coastal defence forces of PNVN. [78] Type-63: Amphibious Light tank: 150 [79] China: Called PT-85 in local service because of its 85 mm gun, similar to the PT-76. PT-76: Amphibious Light tank: PT-76: 300 [80] Soviet Union Vietnam: 76.2 mm D-56T series rifled tank gun.
The third generation of main battle tanks is characterized by composite armour and computer stabilized fire control systems, which allow firing on the move as well as very high first hit probability on targets multiple kilometres away. Many tanks had smoothbore guns with a calibre around 120mm.
[8] [9] Each armor module and mantlet achieved the required performance specified in "Type 10 tank GV-Y120001E". Protection against 120mm kinetic energy penetrators is limited to the front of the hull, turret, and gun mantlet, with the exception of the lower glacis. The top armor can effectively counter explosively formed penetrators and ...
These tanks had better and more consistent quality of make but with inferior armour, lacking the resin-embedded ceramics layer inside the turret front and glacis plate armour, [citation needed] replaced with all steel. The Polish-made T-72G tanks [citation needed] also had thinner armour compared to Soviet Army standard (410 mm for turret ...
all tanks operated in combat by Polish forces during WW2. Poland was the first to suffer the German Blitzkrieg, but it had some very good tanks in its armored forces. The most important was the 7TP (siedmiotonowy Polski – "7-tonne Polish") light tank, which was better armed than its most common opponents, the German Panzer I and Panzer II. [66]
Concealment can include hiding the tank among trees or digging in the tank by having a combat bulldozer dig out part of a hill, so that much of the tank will be hidden. A tank commander can conceal the tank by using "hull down" approaches to going over upward-sloping hills, so that she or he can look out the commander's cupola without the ...