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T-72. Main battle tank. 950 [ 52] 840 T-72B3M, 850 T-72B3 and 650 T-72B/T-72BA in service as of 2021. [ 114] 7,000 T-72/T-72A/T-72B in storage as of 2021. [ 114][ 51] Unknown number brought back from storage because of the losses during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and upgraded/rebuild. [ 115]
In 1928, the Soviet Union began the production of the MS-1 tanks (Малый Сопровождения -1, where M stands for "small" and S for "convoy"). In 1929, it established the Central Directorate for Mechanization and Motorization of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Tanks became a part of the mechanized corps at this point.
The T-14 Armata (Russian: Т-14 «Армата»; industrial designation Russian: Объект 148, romanized : Obyekt 148, lit. 'Object 148') is a Russian main battle tank (MBT) based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform . The Russian Army initially planned to acquire 2,300 T-14s between 2015 and 2020. [ 13][ 14][ 15] By 2018, production ...
Russian Tanks, 1900–1970: The Complete Illustrated History of Soviet Armoured Theory and Design, Harrisburg Penn.: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-1493-4. Zaloga, Steven J., James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8
The Russian Tank Troops ( Russian: Танковые войска Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации, romanized : Tankovyye voyska Vooruzhonnykh sil Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the armored warfare branch of the Russian Ground Forces. They are mainly used in conjunction with the motorized rifle troops in the main ...
The T-90 has its origins in a Soviet -era program aimed at developing a replacement for the T-64, T-72 and T-80 series of main battle tanks (MBT). The T-72 platform was selected as the basis for the new generation of tank owing to its cost-effectiveness, simplicity and automotive qualities. The Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau from Nizhny Tagil ...
Those that remain are now under Taliban control. T-62. 260. Soviet Union. Most either destroyed or scrapped during NATO occupation. Those that remain are now under Taliban control. Albania. Type 59: 40 tanks in service. Albania retired most operational T-54/T-55 and Type 59 MBTs in 2001.
The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed at Nizhny Tagil by the end of 1945. [ 3] From the late 1950s, the T-54 eventually became the main tank for armoured units of the Soviet Army, armies of the Warsaw Pact countries, and ...