Category: Cold War
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Stridsvagn 103C
Type: Main Battle Tank Nation: Sweden Period: Cold War Location: Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden The unusual looking Strv 103 was the world’s only operational turretless main battle tank and unique in several other aspects. It was developed in the 1950s to fulfil Sweden’s very specific requirements for defending the densely wooded country with its countless lakes,…
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T-55
Type: Medium TankNation: Soviet UnionPeriod: Cold War Location: Park Vojaške Zgodovine, Pivka, Slovenia The 36-ton T-55 was first introduced in 1958 as an upgraded version of the very similar T-54 medium tank. Combined, T-54/T-55 is the world’s most produced tank model with about 100,000 units built in the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia and China (as…