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  2. PT-76 - Wikipedia

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    PT-71 (Not to be confused with the Soviet PT-71) – Is a PT-76 upgrade built by Nimda Group Ltd., which includes a 90 mm Cockerill tank gun, a new machine gun, a new fire control system, a laser range finder, night vision devices and a 300 hp (224 kW) Detroit Diesel 6V71T diesel engine. The only known customers were the Israeli and Indonesian ...

  3. Tanks of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Overall, some 25 countries used the PT-76. The tank's full name is Floating Tank76 (Плавающий Танк, Plavayushchiy Tank, or ПТ-76). 76 stands for the caliber of the main armament: the 76.2 mm D-56T series rifled tank gun. The PT-76 is used in the reconnaissance and fire-support roles.

  4. T-54/T-55 - Wikipedia

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    The PAVN destroyed 18 M41 light tanks with 31 M113 APCs and captured 17 M41s intact while losing only two T-54 tanks and one PT-76 tank in the armoured skirmish. [ 52 ] At the very end of the war on 30 April 1975, a PAVN T-54 smashed through the main gate of the RVN Presidential Palace in the capital city of Saigon, accompanied by onrushing ...

  5. Russia needed armor so badly that its biggest film studio ...

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    Mosfilm's director general, Karen Shakhnazarov, said the studio donated 28 T-55 tanks and eight PT-76 tanks to the defense ministry in 2023. Mosfilm's director general, Karen Shakhnazarov, said ...

  6. 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) - Wikipedia

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    The SU-76 was an assault gun mounting the ZiS-3 on the chassis of a T-70 light tank. More than 14,000 were produced between 1942 and 1945. More than 14,000 were produced between 1942 and 1945. The Romanian TACAM R-2 tank destroyer was a R-2 tank converted to mount the ZiS-3 in a three-sided fighting compartment.

  7. SU-76 - Wikipedia

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    The SU-76 (Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 76) was a Soviet light self-propelled gun used during and after World War II. The SU-76 was based on a lengthened version of the T-70 light tank chassis and armed with the ZIS-3 mod. 1942 76-mm divisional field gun. Developed under the leadership of chief designer S.A. Ginzburg (1900–1943).

  8. BTR-60 - Wikipedia

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    It is fitted with the turret from the PT-76 amphibious light tank. [12] Most probably prototype only. BTR-60P M1961/1 fitted with a smaller version of the PT-76 turret. [12] Most probably prototype only. BTR-60P M1961/2 – BTR-60P converted into a fire support vehicle.

  9. Russia accuses Ukraine of killing 65 of its own POWs by ...

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    The Russian defence ministry said six Russian crew members and three Russian soldiers had been on the Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane shot down near the Russian city of Belgorod near the ...