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Since 1959 the tank also served as a basis for T-55K command tank which was equipped with additional R-112 radio set, AB-1-P/30 fuel powered accumulator charging unit and TPN-1-22-11 night vision sight.Operating the Detroit Diesel Electronic Fire Commander: It entered production at Uralvagonzavod in 1958 and entered service with the Red Army on. However the T-55 was simply a modernized T-54 but it received a new designation because of political reasons. Parallel developments in the West would produce similar results. The old model of highly mobile medium tanks and heavily armoured heavy tanks was replaced with a new paradigm: the 'main battle tank'. Heavy tanks soon fell from favour, with only 350 IS-3s produced and future Soviet heavy tank designs remaining as prototypes. Despite somewhat thinner frontal turret armour (200 mm rather than 250 mm), it also compared favourably with the IS-3, thanks to its improved antitank gun and better mobility. The T-55 was significantly superior to the IS-2 Heavy Tank in all respects, including the rate of fire of the gun (at least four compared to less than three rounds per minute).

To balance the weight of the new equipment, the armour on the back of the hull was thinned slightly. The tank also had a thicker turret casting and an improved two-plane gun stabilization system from T-54B as well as night vision fighting equipment. The tank was supposed to be equipped with 'Rosa' fire protection system. The loader's hatch-mounted 12.7 mm DShK anti-aircraft heavy machine gun was dropped, because it was deemed worthless against high-performance jets. The gunner was supposed to receive TNP-165 vision device. The TPKU commander's vision device was supposed to be replaced by either the TPKUB or TPKU-2B. The ammunition load included high explosive-fragmentation and anti-tank rounds and it was also planned to introduce the BK5M HEAT rounds which penetrated 390 mm thick armour. The ammunition load for the main gun was increased from 34 to 45, 18 of which are stored in so called wet containers located in hull fuel tanks (the concept for which came from Kartsev's cancelled Ob'yekt 140 tank). To increase the operational range, fuel tanks with 300 litres were added to the front of the hull which increased the overall fuel capacity to 680 litres. To allow easier access during maintenance and repairs, it was decided to change hatches over the engine compartment. This eliminated the need for the tank to carry a tank filled with air. The engine was supposed to be started pneumatically with the use of AK-150S charger and an electric starter. It was planned to introduce a heating system for the engine compartment and MC-1 diesel fuel filter. Higher engine power was accomplished by increasing the pressure of fuel delivery and charging degree. The tank was fitted with the new V-55 12-cylinder 4-stroke one-chamber 38.88 litre water-cooled diesel engine developing 581 hp (433 kW). Many of those changes were earlier tested on T-54M (Ob'yekt 139). It was decided to increase the tank's battle capabilities by changing the tank's construction and introducing new production technologies. The documentation was sent to Uralvagonzavod. The task of creating basic PAZ (Protivoatomnaya Zashchita) NBC protection system offering protection against the deadly blast overpressure of a nuclear explosion and particulate filtration, but not against radiation or gas was given to the KB-60 design bureau in Kharkov and it was completed in 1956. So it was decided to create an NBC protection system which would start working 0.3 seconds after detecting gamma radiation. The crew however has chances of surviving the same explosion at a range of more than 700 m from the epicenter. T-54 and T-55 tanks never directly faced their NATO Cold War adversaries in Europe, however, their first appearance in the west in 1960 spurred the United States to develop the M60 After the first trials with nuclear weapons, it turned out that T-54 can survive 2-15 kt nuclear charge at a range of more than 300 m from the epicenter.

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The T-54/55 series was eventually replaced by the T-62, T-72, and T-80 in the Soviet and Russian Armies, but tanks of the series are still in use by up to 50 other armies worldwide, some having received sophisticated retrofitting. Estimated production numbers for the series range from 86,000 to 100,000. The T-54/55 series eventually became the most-produced tank in history. T-54s and T-55s were involved in many of the world's armed conflicts during the late twentieth century.

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The T-54 entered full production in 1947 and became the main tank of the Soviet Red Army's armored units, as well as of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries, and others. The first T-54 prototype appeared in March 1945, just before the end of the Second World War. The T-54 and T-55 tanks were a series of main battle tanks designed in the Soviet Union.

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