The T-54 is a Soviet main battle tank of the Cold War era. The first prototypes of this machine were built in 1945-1946, and serial production in the USSR began in 1946 and lasted until 1958. During its course, about 35,000 of these machines were created - only in the Soviet Union! The combat weight of the tank was up to 36 tons. The drive was provided by one W-54 engine with a capacity of 520 hp. The main armament was a 100-mm D-10T wz.1944 tank gun, and two 7.62-mm SGMT machine guns and a 12.7-mm DShK machine gun served as additional weapons. The work on the T-54 actually began during World War II and dates back to the T-44 tank. When developing the T-54, it was intended, on the one hand, to preserve all the advantages of the T-34/85 (especially its good maneuverability), but also to use clearly stronger main armament and more effective armor. Finally, a machine was created, which was probably the first to be called the Main Battle Tank (MBT). It was definitely a successful tank when it entered service. In the course of serial production, several modifications of this machine were created, in particular, the T-54 arr. 1946 (a variant with a tower similar in shape to the T-44), T-54 zr. 1949 (a variant with a changed shape of the tower) or T-54A (a variant with a weapon stabilizer at the same level and night vision devices for the mechanic-driver). It should be added that the T-54 was licensed, in particular, in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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