Tag: tank
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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…
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M4 Sherman “Ginsling”
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Wibrin, Belgium The sleeping giant At the beginning of World War 2 the US Armys’ tank force was virtually nonexistent. Even Poland possessed more tanks when they were attacked by Nazi Germany in September 1939. The Great Depression and long years of isolationism had drastically…