![]() Your account must be 3 days old to comment and at least 30 karma to post here.įlair your post appropriately after submitting. Submit a link Submit text post Please activate this subreddit's custom style for access to extra functionality such as content filtersįor Sim mode, visit r/WarthunderSim! Rules If you spot a mistake, or want to correct something, just let me know. I personally think the T-55AM-2B would be an excellent 8.7 MBT for the German tech-tree, mainly because the east-German T-55AM-2B would be incredibly similar to the T-55AM-1 we have in War Thunder already, be it with Warsaw-pact match-maker, or not. It was truly the best T-55 of the NVA and with it’s ATGM firing-capabilities, it was able to rival the T-72 in terms of firepower.Īrmament: 1x 100mm D-10T2S main-cannon (43 RPG), 1x 12,7mm DschK AA-MG (500 RPG), 1x 7,62mm PKT coaxial-MG (2250 RPG) Overall, these are just the major improvements and show, that the T-55AM-2B is basically a new tank, sadly only 35 T-55AM-2Bs were fully upgraded when the NVA fell. Improved fire-extinguishing system and more hand-held fire-extinguishers. ![]() Improved protection from napalm and other incindiary agents. Reinforced hull for improved mine protection. ![]() Smoke-launching system TUTSCHA 902B (8 barrels).Īdd-on composite armor on frontal hull and turret-cheeks. IR-floodlight L-4 with a range of max 1200m. Thermal sleeve for the 100mm D-10T2S cannon. Reinforced planetarly steering-system with 17 plates.įire-control and laser-warning system KLADIWO. ![]() Standardised compartments for crew-belongings. The tracks were replaced with rubber-reinforced steel-tracks, which reportedly lasted two times longer than the original pure steel-tracks. This way, we can better see in what aspects the T-55AM-2B was improved, rather than comparing it to the already upgraded T-55AM. The second reason is, that the European theatre is filled with hills and valleys terrain, which does not favor the restricted cannon-movement of the T-72, which had an elevation of +15° and a depression of -5° with a maximum vertical movement-speed of 3,5°/s, while any variant of the T-55 used by the NVA had an elevation of +17° with the same -5° depression of the T-72, however, the vertical movement-speed of the cannon was 4,5°/s this minor advantage of the T-55, coupled with the cheaper price of the modernisation was reason enough for the GDR to initiate the upgrade program of the T-55AM.įor the sake of having a better overview, I will list all of the upgrades of the T-55AM-2B, compared to a standard T-55A. With one T-72 unit costing as much as 4,5 million Mark, while upgrading a T-55AM to T-55AM-2B specifications, costs around 2 million Mark. This was done out of two major reasons, first, upgrading existing tanks is cheaper and easier to acomplish, than to buy and import vast numbers of T-72s. The T-55AM on it’s own was a modernisation of the by now obsolete T-55A, however, that wasn’t enough and the GDR was quick to order a new modernisation-program for the T-55AMs. In 1978 the T-72 was introduced into the NVA as their new MBT, which, even if it was an export-model of the T-72 Ural, was vastly superior to the until now, best MBT the NVA could muster, the T-55AM.
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