As the T-54 was the primary medium tank — meaning it was more moderately sized than heavy tanks but still packed a hefty punch — the Red Army had thousands of this model in stock and service.

The T-54/T-55 was celebrated for its simplicity and its robustness. The tanks were easy to operate, especially relative to Western contemporaries, and did not require advanced training or education.

Summary and Key Points: Russia's tank stockpile is approaching a critical point of depletion, with recent reports indicating that even Cold War-era T-54/55 tanks are being deployed to the ...

Well, that's one way to use an obsolete tank. On or before Sunday, Russian forces near Marinka, in southeastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, packed what appeared to be a 70-year-old T-54 or T-55 tank ...

A strange video from the war in Ukraine showed a modified old tank. The footage seemed to show a T-54 or T-55 with a huge "cope cage" on top. The devices are a kind of crude defense against anti ...

To keep T-54/55 crews alive on a battlefield buzzing with explosives-laden drones—fearsome anti-tank weapons that the aged tanks’ designers probably couldn’t imagine in the 1940s—Russian ...

Soviet T-54/T-55 tanks form a threatening ring round the Parliament buildings in Hungary on November 12, 1956.

The T-54/55 – How Few Remain? As noted by the Defence Blog, the T-54, which was a direct evolution of the iconic T-34 and first prototyped at the Nizhny Tagil tank plant in late 1945, “became ...