Geriatric.

This is coolbert:

"достаточно хорошо сейчас, чем лучше позже"

"Russia Pulling Ancient T-54 and T-55 Tanks from Storage as War Drags On"

"Ancient T-54 and T-55 tanks have been removed from storage and may soon be joining the slightly less ancient T-62s that Russia has already dusted off for use in Ukraine."

[....]

"According to the Georgia-based Conflict Intelligence Team, the footage comes from the Russian Far East, near the 1295th Central Tanks and Repair Storage Base is in Arsenyev, meaning that, like recently reactivated T-62s, the venerable armor has likely — if not certainly — been refurbished for deployment to Ukraine."

[....]

"There has been some acknowledgement, however, that it is unlikely that Russia would use the geriatric armor for tank-on-tank combat with modern vehicles — such engagements being relatively rare in Ukraine, in any case — but rather as makeshift mobile artillery, as appears to have been the case with T-62s."

"In this context, their reactivation [as makeshift artillery] would arguably be a fairly sensible way to tap stores of old ammunition [presumably this would be 100 mm high explosive HE] which would otherwise go to waste in what has proved to be a shell-hungry war."

YES, BUT DOES THE T-55 HAVE A FIELD TELEPHONE THAT CAN BE CONNECTED TO A SWITCHBOARD?

See previous blog entries, tanks used as artillery in the direct and indirect mode of fire:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/02/tusk.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/02/wear.html

coolbert.