Like the T-62, the T-54 has a four-man crew as its gun is manually loaded, unlike the three-man crews of newer Soviet and Russian tanks like the T-72. The T-54’s sensors and mechanical fire control ...

The early Soviet-era tanks mentioned by Shakhnazarov — the medium tank T-55 and light tank PT-76 — were produced in the 1940s and 1950s. The T-55, one of the most produced tanks in the world ...

Kharuk points to known examples of T-54 tanks — which began development in the 1940s — and also post-war T-55 tanks being pressed into service into Ukraine.