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Dirty Little Secrets
Pimp My T-55
by James Dunnigan
January 13, 2006
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
The Russian T-55 tank, a late 1940s design,
is still in use, and sometimes even being upgraded. Peru, for example,
has upgraded some of its T-55s with computerized fire control systems,
100mm armor piercing shells of the latest design, GPS and two 9M14 ATGM
(anti-tank guided missile) launchers on the side of the turret. The
9M14 is a wire guided missile with a range of 3,000 meters. Peru has
about 250 T-55s, although less than a hundred a in working condition,
and only a few have been upgraded. But with the better fire control,
and the missiles, the tank becomes a players on the 21st century
battlefield.
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