The turret design featured reverse bevels, the so-called shot traps in its lower part. The upper part of the turret was 30 mm thick. The thickness of the spherical frontal part reached 200 mm, and on the sides, it is between 160 and 125 mm. The turret of the Т-54 tank was cast of armored steel. The sides of the hull have a 80 mm thickness. The nose of the hull is welded from the top and bottom 120 mm thick armor plates. It houses the engine and systems that ensure its operation, as well as the transmission. The engine compartment, separated by a partition, is behind the combat compartment in the aft part of the tank. 20 rounds are stored in the bow of the hull, and the rest are in the combat compartment. The tank’s ammunition includes 34 rounds for 100mm guns, located in special racks in the tank’s hull and turret. The positions of the gunner and tank commander are located to the left of the D10-T gun, and the loader is to the right. It contained a turret, which housed a tank gun, sight and vision devices, part of the ammunition, and communications. The fighting compartment occupied the middle part of the tank hull.
T-54 tanks of different years of production In addition, a DShK 12.7mm machine gun was installed on the roof of the turret.Ī driving compartment, where the driver was placed on the left, and fuel tanks and ammunition rack on the right behind the longitudinal partition were positioned in the bow of the hull. To aim machine guns at the target, the tank was turned. Weapons loading was executed outside the vehicle. A driver conducted fire from these machine guns. A 7.62mm machine gun was paired with it.Īlso, two bow machine guns were installed above the left and right tracks. In its base version, of which more than ten thousand were produced in the USSR, the tank had a crew of four people and was armed with a D10-T 100mm rifled gun. During the production, the tank was improved, and new modifications were created. Several defense plants of the USSR, as well as in other countries, produced the tank. The serial production of the vehicle started in 1947. The Soviet Т-54 medium tank was developed and adopted in 1946. Russia is forced to arm its invasion troops with these tanks due to significant losses of modern armor and to increase the firepower of its forces.
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