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Re: T-55 Stats

According to Jeff Pawlowski, on Sat, 12 Jan 2002 the word on the street was...

> http://www.soviet-empire.com/arsenal/army/tanks/t55.php
>
> This is not any bulldozer.  100mm gun.
>
> Crew of 4.
>
> Pics at the URL

How shall I put this...? Check your Vehicle Sourcebook, page 109 (though the 
pic sucks) -- I _know_ what a T-55 looks like; in fact I could tell you the 
differences between a T-54 and a T-55, which is better than most books on the 
subject manage.[1] I'm not trying to look superior or anything, but I always 
see the need to respond when someone questions my knowledge about a subject I 
do know a lot about :)

What I'm saying is that the Polish army may not be selling gun tanks; the URL 
you quote doesn't seem to have anything to do with the posted article 
(judging by the URL itself; I didn't check it) so it wouldn't help us 
determine if the Poles aren't selling IMRs or something. (That's the Russian 
AEV on a T-55 chassis; has a bulldozer blade and a crane, much like the 
German Bergepanzer 2A1.) The vehicle I saw bulldozing snow on TV certainly 
wasn't a gun tank, but then again, that doesn't say much either :)


[1] In case anyone is wondering, the differences are the shape of the welds 
between the upper and lower glacis, and whether there's a step at the top of 
the rear hull plate or not. Any other differences are due to the manufacturing 
date of the tank in question and/or the periodical rebuilds to which Soviet 
Army tanks were subjected to bring them up to the standard of the latest 
models.

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