![]() ![]() ![]() This first King & Country model is numbered #312 and mounts the excellent 100mmm Main Gun together with the 12.7 turret mounted DShK Heavy Machine Gun. China’s People’s Liberation Army also manufactured their own exact copy called the T59 and built about 5,000 additional versions of the design. ![]() The T54/55 series would become the most produced tank in history with estimated production runs of anywhere from 86,000 up to 100,000 vehicles. It would go on to be involved in many of the world’s armed conflicts in the latter half of the 20th Century… including Vietnam. From the late 1950s it became the standard main battle tank for the Soviet Army and other Warsaw Pact nations. The T55 was a direct development of the earlier T54 and virtually identical in outward appearance. ![]()
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