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T-54/55

Main battle tank · Land · Malyshev Factory · Soviet Union

Wikidata: Soviet main battle tank

Operators among the 24
4
Active, across the 24
1,846
On order, across the 24
0
In service since
–

Catalogue entry

Designation
T-54
First flight or launch
–
In service
–
Retired
–
Generation
1
Unit cost (US dollars)
not published in Wikidata
Manufacturers
Malyshev Factory
Wikidata classes
combat vehicle family
Identifiers
Q328272 · factbase.org/sys/64F2GH2B70 · Wikipedia

Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.

Operators

Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.

NationActiveReserveOn orderVariants
North Korea1,000
India700
Russia120
Ukraine26T-54/55 M-55S

Transfers

Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.

1954: 24001956: 30001957: 6501958: 21001959: 2501960: 501961: 6001962: 2301963: 401965: 3001966: 1251967: 21801968: 501969: 1501970: 6001972: 301973: 5741974: 81975: 2111976: 7051977: 2001978: 2001979: 3361981: 1401982: 871983: 101985: 701986: 701987: 181992: 180195419731992max 3,000
SIPRI-recorded deliveries of T-54/55 by year

Recipients: China (3,000), Czechoslovakia (1,800), Poland (1,500), Egypt (1,200), North Korea (1,000), Bulgaria (900), Syria (850), Libya (800), East Germany (500), Vietnam (500), Hungary (300), Iraq (300), India (300), Ethiopia (260), Mongolia (250), Afghanistan (250), North Yemen (200), Lebanon (180), Somalia (174), Algeria (165), Angola (150), Yugoslavia (140), Morocco (120), Amal (Lebanon)* (120), Pakistan (100), Iran (60), Mozambique (60), Finland (50), Sudan (50), PLO (Israel)* (50).

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