"Museum exhibits" can be useful: CNN about the transfer of the Russian Federation to Ukraine T-54 tanks

In total, more than 100 thousand T-55 tanks were released, they were exported massively with the USSR. And now at least some of them are being reconfigured for the war against Ukraine. According to analysts, it is also an act of despair. In the Russian Federation, tanks of T-54/T-55, which are even older than T-62, began to transfer to the front. However, they can also be effective. About it reports CNN.

For the first time, the T-55 tanks (the T-54 and T-55 are not divided in the west and called both T-55) for the first time were adopted by the Red Army in 1948. It was the first major combat tank of the USSR without dividing into light, medium or heavy. The T-55 was a simple and very mass tank, because more than 100,000 tanks were made during mass production. It is still used by some Africa and the Middle East.

At the time when the T-55 began to be removed from the weapons in the USSR, they were about 28 thousand, they were preserved, not disposed of. Now in a warehouse in Arseniyev in the Far East of the Russian Federation it is seen that the T-55 began to be removed from storage.

Former US Marpich T senior researcher at the Institute for Foreign Policy Research, Rob Lee says that the cause of the T-55 is the loss of tanks on the battlefield and not the ability to produce machines in sufficient quantities. "Some of these machines are likely to be used in the back. So it is not necessary that the tanks will go forward, rather they will fire a long distance," Lee said. The T-55 can be dug into positions to conduct static defense.

In addition, because of its age, the T-55 does not have complex electronics and equipment, so the army of the Russian Federation will be able to quickly absorb them. Currently, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are drawn up for the most part of the mobilized, in the publication. Russia was buried in anticipation of the Ukrainian offensive, so museum exhibits can help them defense.

According to Lee, the success of Ukraine will depend on the ability to find weaknesses in the lines of defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. However, researcher Trevor Taylor stated that the T-55 is the act of despair of the Russian Federation. We will remind, on March 23 the media wrote that T-55 in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can increase the defensive capabilities of the invaders on the battlefield.