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T-55 "Enigma"
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It's amazing if you think about it. It's a design from the late 40s and mass produced in the 50s... That thing is alive and lurking about in modern times.
Upgunning old tanks works to a certain degree, but sooner or later there comes a time when a new design must be built since the basic design philosophy of the tank cannot be completely renewed. This is one of the cases - a second-gen tank cannot be made into one of the third gen ones. Nevertheless, it's interesting to see all the design poorer states come up with, especially in the ME and the Balcans. However with the tactics they're using it's also painful to watch them die unnecessarily, often abandoned by their crew.
as the saying goes if you dont have what you like you like what you have I suppose :/
we have the same problem in Poland tho for us its mostly due to our sellout ***** politicians preventing our economies from becoming self sufficient and as a result severely limiting our military budget. Thanks to this geo political ******** promising projects like the PZL-230 Skorpion stealth fighter to the PL-01 stealth tank projects remain all but unrealistic pipe dreams :/
Its so bad atm that its literally safe to say that the Polish army in 1939 was far more combat effective than their modern day counter parts could ever hope to be -_-
Europe in general spends less and less on the army, and in the age of austerity it's often the first thing that gets cut. I'd wager you guys at least have some basic level of combat readiness due to having Russia on your side unlike Germany which has been downsizing for the past 25 years and is plagued with beurocratic ******** "scandals" which then lead to even more budget cuts. At least your politicians should have gotten their *** in gear (those in Germany did at least to some degree) with the Ukraine crisis after seeing what happens if you cut on your army for too long.