Serbia delivered a batch of modernized T-55 tanks to Pakistan

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Serbia delivered a batch of modernized T-55 tanks to Pakistan

Serbia delivered first batch to Pakistan tanks T-55, modernized at Yugoimport SDPR. It is reported by the Serbian defense news portal Borbeni Effektiv.

It is reported that at this stage, the Pakistani military received 100 upgraded T-55N tanks out of 282 ordered. According to the plans of the Ministry of Defense of Pakistan, the tanks received will immediately be placed on the western border with Afghanistan.



During the modernization, the Serbs equipped the Soviet T-55 tank with an improved engine, modern hull protection and a full range of the latest electronic equipment and optics. In particular, the modernization package includes updated dynamic armor protection, reinforced with reactive panels, the installation of a more powerful modernized engine (780 hp), a modern fire control system and RFB protection. Replaced communications.

The tank is equipped with panoramic optoelectronic devices with day and night channels for the commander and driver. The gun remained the same, but the ammunition was replenished with new shells. Installed PU smoke grenades. It is possible to install a clearance system.

The tanks were withdrawn from the arsenal of the Serbian army in the early 2000s, about 700 tanks were decommissioned in total.

According to the Chinese edition of Sohu, the entire batch of 282 T-55 tanks cost the Pakistani budget an amount comparable to the cost of 14 Chinese-made VT-4 MBTs.

Currently, Pakistan is armed with 320 Ukrainian-supplied T-80UD tanks, as well as more than 300 Type-85-II tanks and about 400 Type-90-II (Al-Khalid) assembled under a Chinese license.
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  1. +25
    April 7 2020 18: 12
    That's an immortal model! True, there is a loader laughing However, a tank is a tank ... A powerful and accurate cannon. High mobility. The "rogue" is excellent ...
    1. +1
      April 7 2020 18: 20
      Mountain shooter - the word "rogue" is unacceptable to the tank! negative All-terrain vehicle, it is closer to the truth !! good
    2. +5
      April 7 2020 23: 54
      Quote: Mountain Shooter
      True, there is a loader

      Well, right! Somehow they showed a film where a young American (English?) Officer is assigned to serve on a gunboat in China ... And then he discovers that a group of Chinese are constantly living on the gunboat, who are doing all the rough work on the "ship"! Somehow he decided to shave, but the Chinese was offended that shaving was not entrusted to him ... one of the "experienced" officers from the gunboat stood up for the Chinese, saying: " don't rob the Chinese of a cup of rice! "...
      1. +1
        April 8 2020 16: 10
        Quote: Nikolaevich I
        Somehow they showed a film where a young American (English?) Officer is assigned to serve on a gunboat in China ... And then he discovers that a group of Chinese are constantly living on the gunboat, who are doing all the rough work on the "ship"!

        The US Navy was generally distinguished by peculiar habits. Pomnitsa, in Tsushima wrote that at one time officers protested against the transfer of the main Pacific Fleet forces to Pearl Harbor, because there were too few white women in Hawaii. laughing
    3. 0
      April 8 2020 22: 29
      They will ditch the "packs" in the mountains of the "immortal model" if the Serbs have not installed a reverse engine start block on them.
  2. -4
    April 7 2020 18: 18
    Reactive armor is clear, but what else is there for "reactive panels" ??? This is now not a tank, but a "reactive panel carrier" ??? belay belay
    1. +6
      April 7 2020 21: 06
      Quote: Thrifty
      and what else is there for "reactive panels" ???

      the same dynamic protection. Written by clumsy misunderstanding people)
      Islamabad received the former Serbian T-55A and T-55AK, the modernized vehicles were named T-55N. As part of the modernization, the tanks received a new sight and a modern fire control system (the 100-mm rifled gun remained the same), a 780-horsepower engine, similar to that installed on the Serbian special engineering armored vehicle VIU-55 "Molniya", a mounted dynamic armor complex, covering the front of the hull, turret and side projections. In addition, the communication equipment has been updated in the car.
      1. +2
        April 7 2020 21: 18
        wassat reactive panels = active armor + dynamic protection + explosive containers on the armor + counter-explosion panels + online auto-translator
        laughing
      2. +5
        April 7 2020 21: 36
        Good tanks for a reserve of the "National Guard" type turned out. Simple, effective enough for poorly trained crews, and cheap. It is much more promising to put forward 280 such oldies to block the zone of some counter-terrorist operation than 14 new MBTs.
  3. +9
    April 7 2020 18: 19
    Everything turns upside down, the Indians buy NATO, Pakistan, Russian and Chinese. In general, the Chinese consider the Indian regime to be aggressive nationalistic and almost fascist. And it’s really impossible to think of a more bloodthirsty and obscene than the caste system. And Indian deities are just some kind of bloody hooligans.
    1. +5
      April 7 2020 18: 39
      Pakistan has long been buying and buying Chinese, for example AKMs, some kind of, and then passed them to the Mujahideen when ours fought there. T-55 is not Russian, and not even Soviet, the Serbs had their own production. And the deities in India, yes there are certainly entertainers and entertainers .........
    2. +2
      April 7 2020 20: 15
      Quote: gabonskijfront
      Everything turns upside down; Indians buy NATO, Pakistan Russian and Chinese

      Hindus buy everything that turns up (I almost said everything that glitters laughing ) I read the title of the article, at first I was surprised, but I read it until the moment
      received tanks will immediately be placed on the western border with Afghanistan.
      all staor in its place. Hindus at one time bought the T-90 from Russia, and now they are just standing on the border with Pakistan. Well, the T-55 (albeit modernized) against the T-90, as it is not very. But against the Afghan mujahideen, probably come down.
    3. +6
      April 7 2020 21: 07
      Quote: gabonskijfront
      Indians buy NATO, Pakistan

      Pakistan is cheaper
    4. +2
      April 7 2020 22: 48
      strange - but where does it say that Pakistan buys Russian ???
    5. 0
      April 8 2020 16: 19
      Quote: gabonskijfront
      Everything turns upside down; Indians buy NATO, Pakistan Russian and Chinese.

      Pakistan has been an ally of China since Chairman Mao. Fortunately, they have one opponent - India. And Pakistan perfectly understands that in one person, without China, nothing shines against India.
      And the packs made close friends with the Americans, EMNIP, in times socialist choice of Afghanistan - but without stopping the friendship with China. Fortunately, the PRC then drifted toward the United States. So the spirits in Afghanistan were armed with both American and Chinese weapons.
      The same air forces of Pakistan are more than half armed with Chinese and joint aircraft with China. And before, the Chinese clones of Soviet aircraft made up the bulk of the combat aircraft fleet.
    6. +1
      April 9 2020 00: 50
      Quote: gabonskijfront
      Really more bloodthirsty and obscurantist than the caste system is impossible to come up with.And Indian deities are just some kind of bloody hooligans

      Well, yes ... and the Chinese are "white and fluffy" (!) ... and those "democrats" (!) (Tiananmen 1989 .... suppression of the liberation movement in Tibet ...)!
      1. 0
        April 9 2020 14: 31
        Quote: Nikolaevich I
        Well, yes ... and the Chinese are "white and fluffy" (!) ... and those "democrats" (!) (Tiananmen 1989 .... suppression of the liberation movement in Tibet ...)!

        With Tibet, everything is complicated - both sides are good there. The local "national liberation movement" is the struggle of the lamas against secularization and, in general, for the return of the old order.
        If China didn’t enter there, we would read today about the slave-owning theocracy of Tibet. smile
        1. +1
          April 10 2020 01: 05
          Quote: Alexey RA
          If China didn’t enter there, we would read today about the slave-owning theocracy of Tibet.

          But we won’t know this .... would read ... or not read ... request
  4. +2
    April 7 2020 18: 28
    They are Pakistan, and we are India. Funny situation. :)
    1. +4
      April 7 2020 18: 34
      Quote: Sergey Averchenkov
      They are Pakistan, and we are India. Funny situation. :)

      Looking for someone ... For Ukraine, not really.
  5. -1
    April 7 2020 18: 30
    Made in USSR,
  6. +6
    April 7 2020 18: 43
    In direct combat with the T-90 of India, the T-55 has few chances, with the exception of the highlands, which are abundant in the disputed states. So that such a purchase is still beneficial to Pakistan.
    1. +6
      April 7 2020 19: 45
      Against Afghanistan is what we need. And the released T-80UD will move against India.
      Moreover, the T-55 was almost completely for nothing.
  7. 0
    April 7 2020 18: 45
    And what can he oppose to the Indian T-90?
    1. +3
      April 7 2020 21: 32
      Quote: Stalllker
      And what can he oppose to the Indian T-90?

      According to the plans of the Ministry of Defense of Pakistan, the received tanks will immediately be placed on the western border with Afghanistan.

      And Afghanistan has the T-62 and the same T-55
      1. +1
        April 8 2020 22: 35
        [quote = Piramidon] [/ quote]
        And Afghanistan has the T-62 and the same T-55 [/ quote]
        The T-55 in the mountains will give the T-62 a head start in terms of traction and maneuverability, especially after Serbian modernization. And because there will definitely not be tank battles with the Afghans. The 100 mm T-55 cannon has an elegant shrapnel projectile for fighting infantry.
  8. +2
    April 7 2020 18: 52
    Quote: gabonskijfront
    Everything turns upside down, the Indians buy NATO, Pakistan, Russian and Chinese. In general, the Chinese consider the Indian regime to be aggressive nationalistic and almost fascist. And it’s really impossible to think of a more bloodthirsty and obscene than the caste system. And Indian deities are just some kind of bloody hooligans.

    In India, as well as around the world, the right has come to power. In the USA, France, Great Britain, Turkey, Brazil the same
    1. -2
      April 8 2020 09: 38
      In India, not just right-wingers came to power, but also xenophobes and religious extremists. Before Muslims spread rot, now, they write, they also took up Christians. They burn the church, beat, rape ... No wonder Buddhism in its homeland did not take root.
  9. -13
    April 7 2020 18: 53
    A T34 would be even cheaper. T55 has exhausted itself, but do not upgrade it. Indian T90s will eat this for breakfast, as will Chinese Wonder Yudo.
    1. +10
      April 7 2020 19: 01
      Quote: Victor Sergeev
      T55 has exhausted itself, but do not upgrade it.


      T-55AGM
      1. -3
        April 7 2020 19: 20
        We did the same craftsmen from Zaporozhets limousine. The cost of such modernization (in 2009 almost $ 3 million) is greater than or equal to the new T90 type tank. Unviable mutant. Tank dimensions and weight restrictions limit the ability to upgrade.
      2. +2
        April 7 2020 21: 07
        I also consider the most perfect model T 55. The price of such modernization, of course, is too big ...
  10. +3
    April 7 2020 18: 54
    That's for sure - cheap and cheerful. laughing
    Only the T-62M has more opportunities for modernization (this is in a comparable price category)
  11. +1
    April 7 2020 19: 07
    Everything rests on finances, there would be money from free, they could buy the Leopards, and 90 tons, and if the finances are strained, then the modernized "fifty-five" will come off.
  12. 0
    April 7 2020 19: 20
    Profitable bargain.
  13. +1
    April 7 2020 19: 24
    Interestingly, how do the T-80s behave in Pakistan, are they with gas turbine engines or oposites?
    1. +4
      April 7 2020 20: 39
      Quote: 75Sergey
      Interestingly, how do the T-80s behave in Pakistan, are they with gas turbine engines or oposites?

      There T-80UD
  14. -3
    April 7 2020 19: 58
    282 T-55 tanks. Currently, Pakistan is armed with 320 T-80UD tanks supplied by Ukraine, as well as more than 300 Type-85-II tanks assembled under a Chinese license and about 400 Type-90-II tanks.
    Serious cam, albeit first-class cars. But must enter under the Indian umbrella.
  15. +3
    April 7 2020 21: 11
    Another old man runs))
  16. +3
    April 7 2020 21: 50
    The T-55 is lighter than the T-90 by 10 tons, less by half a meter and a length, and most importantly by width. For mountainous areas, weight and dimensions can be decisive
  17. +5
    April 7 2020 22: 03
    the entire batch of 282 T-55 tanks cost the Pakistani budget an amount comparable to the cost of 14 Chinese-made VT-4 MBTs.

    Mountainous areas. To paraphrase the classics: a tank is good for someone who has it on the right pass. It’s bad for someone in the next gorge ...
    So here the quantity is more important than supercharacteristics ..
  18. -2
    April 7 2020 23: 11
    This mutant turned out) When he tears off all this tops from him, then it will be possible to say what he can do.
  19. +1
    April 7 2020 23: 46
    The "old horse" (T-55) will not spoil the furrows, but will not plow deeply ...
  20. 0
    April 8 2020 01: 15
    So soon they will reach the modernization of the T-34. It would be curious to see this legendary tank with an enhanced engine, reactive armor, new fire control systems with LCD screens, and other "body kit"))
  21. 0
    April 8 2020 01: 55
    Modernization is not the most difficult of the possible. A good option for a section of the border where there are no modern ATGMs on the other side, only outdated ones, but mostly RPGs and heavy machine guns.
    This is no longer even a tank, but a self-propelled gun of direct support. Small budget solved a big problem.
    By the way, we also have a note - we also have enough T-55 for storage, there were plans for either a heavy armored personnel carrier or an BMPT, but somehow everything died out.
  22. 0
    April 8 2020 02: 55
    It turns out that the Serbs at one time could demolish the Croats and Kosovars, a tank armada ?! But they didn’t. Good Serbian people. For which he paid ...
    1. 0
      April 8 2020 20: 34
      Quote: sustav75
      It turns out that the Serbs at one time could demolish the Croats and Kosovars, a tank armada ?! But they didn’t. Good Serbian people. For which he paid ...

      And what does the people have to do with it? It is not the people who decide, but those for whom the people vote. Well, such as ours laughing
  23. +1
    April 8 2020 08: 52
    Eternal, trouble-free technology, will serve another 50 years. For mountainous, rough terrain - it can make a rustle.
  24. -4
    April 8 2020 10: 15
    They set a party of expensive targets for Indian troops.
  25. +2
    April 8 2020 13: 20
    A good, reliable and unpretentious car .. Once the Basmachis drive the Basmachi ..
  26. 0
    April 9 2020 00: 22
    Quote: universe1
    They set a party of expensive targets for Indian troops.
    They are for another direction, you hastened to scribble a comment without even reading the article. Just out of curiosity - why write something just for the sake of writing?

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