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See the thing about the Soviet Union is that when your large enough to reach from one hemisphere to another equipping all of those soldiers can be a a pain in the ass. As such the Soviet Union tried to keep it's old equipment and just passed them down to less important units. Soviet proper got the good shit, second line units older equipment, warsaw pact nations got stuff a generation behind, and so on, (this is why the East Germans in team yankee use the much older T55AM2 while the Soviets proper, don't) Hell the T-34 was still used by the soviets up until the 1960's. This is why when you look up soviet equipment you sometimes find lists of at least five different types of machine all doing the same thing. The T55am2 was an attempt to get more life out of the ageing T-55, and make it more able to fight the then modern Nato tanks like the M1 and Chieftain MBT, which by that point it was something like two tank generations behind. It's IRL performance would have likely be similar to it's game performance: not very well, but there would have been a lot of them! | |||
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Revision as of 08:03, 28 October 2017
The feared muscle behind the Warsaw Pact during the 50s and 60s, the T-55 is an aged tank in 1985. The T-55AM2 however, represents a comprehensive upgrade program to attempt to bring the chassis to the modern era. The glacis was thickened, distinctive "horseshoe" brow armour was added to the turret front and a smoke launcher to increase survivability. A laser rangefinder, wind sensor and a ballistic computer were added to increase gun accuracy. Finally new gunner optics were added to enable missiles to be fired from the D10T 100mm gun. The T-55AM2 upgrades were the first prong in East Germany's plan to modernize the panzer of the Volksarmee (the second being further procurement of T-72M).
In Team Yankee
IRL
See the thing about the Soviet Union is that when your large enough to reach from one hemisphere to another equipping all of those soldiers can be a a pain in the ass. As such the Soviet Union tried to keep it's old equipment and just passed them down to less important units. Soviet proper got the good shit, second line units older equipment, warsaw pact nations got stuff a generation behind, and so on, (this is why the East Germans in team yankee use the much older T55AM2 while the Soviets proper, don't) Hell the T-34 was still used by the soviets up until the 1960's. This is why when you look up soviet equipment you sometimes find lists of at least five different types of machine all doing the same thing. The T55am2 was an attempt to get more life out of the ageing T-55, and make it more able to fight the then modern Nato tanks like the M1 and Chieftain MBT, which by that point it was something like two tank generations behind. It's IRL performance would have likely be similar to it's game performance: not very well, but there would have been a lot of them!
| East German Forces in Team Yankee | |
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| Tanks: | T-55 - T55AM2 - T-72M - T-72B |
| Transports: | BTR-60 - BMP-1 - BMP-2 |
| Troops: | Mot-Schützen Kompanie - Hind Assault Landing Company |
| Artillery: | 2S1 Carnation - BM-21 Hail - RM-70 - 2S3 Acacia |
| Anti-Aircraft: | ZSU 23-4 Shilka - SA-13 Gopher - SA9 Gaskin - SA-8 Gecko |
| Tank Hunters: | Spandrel |
| Recon: | BMP-1 OP - BRDM-2 |
| Aircraft: | MI-24 Hind - SU-22 Fitter |
| Soviet Support: | SU-25 Frogfoot |