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Penza web user selling tank over Internet

11:10 | 28.08.2014 | Society

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Penza, 28 August 2014. PenzaNews. An sale advertisement for T-55A tank was published in Penza ad website “Bazarpnz.ru” under “Miscellaneous” category.

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The price for the vehicle was set at 3 800 000 rubles, although negotiable.

According to the available data, the tank is equipped with a 12-cylinder 580 horsepower engine, which takes 410 liters of diesel fuel per 100 km, and armed with a 100 mm cannon.

As of 12.00 on Thursday, August 28, the ad was viewed over 300 times since its publication last Wednesday.

T-55 is a battle tank made in the Soviet Union which was based on 1-54 and produced from 1958 to 1979. The tank, as well as its modification 1-55A was widely exported outside of the USSR and is still present in the armies in many countries of the world. It became the first battle tank with reactive armor.

In Western news sources, these tanks are usually grouped together as T-54/55.

T-55A, which was made from 1962 to 1977, was equipped with improved anti-nuclear protection materials inside and outside the tank’s human modules, but lacked the bow machine gun. The tank had been undergoing constant modernization throughout its whole production period.

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