T-55 - Tank History and Review 

I'm sick right now so sorry if the quality is subpar in any way.

spookston talking about the t-55 never clicked so fast

*I unlock the T-55A in WT* Spookston: have a video on its history

This was really nice and well done, hope we can see more of these tank history and review videos

Now that's interesting since my grandfather was a commander in T-54

Ah yes the T-55 also known as the tank AK-47, if you've been somewhere chances are the T-55 has been there 50 years before you

I love the T-54/55. It just emits that "Cold War tank" feeling for me.

I always love how compact the videos are on this channel, lots of the most important information in a relatively short time ^^

if only history lessons were like those videos

I’ve never seen such a sexier tank in life than the T55

I have a small request , could you also do reviews for tanks that were made as an incremental updates to these legacy tanks ? Heard developing countries have done wonders with these cold war era tanks

As a tank industry veteran, trained for Soviet tanks, I find your analyses more accurate and informative than many other " experts' " here on YT from certain museums are. Very good job, keep up the good work. Concise, short, to the point, no time hogging, I just invented the term :D Excuse my bad English.

Bro, Task & Purpose just cited u on their Bradley vid. Congrats mehn.

Really nice video! I think in some places you do talk a bit too fast, but I like the format! Can't wait for some more :3

I liked the amount of information you were able to express in a short time period! Good job

IIRC there were also weird problems with the T-44 and how well, or not well, the hull armor was welded together. I remember seeing this on the WOT forums back in like 2011 or 2012 and I haven't been able to find it since, but someone posted pictures of T-44's used as live fire targets for 122mm guns [either an IS-2 or ISU-122S] and the T-44's looked like they got hit by nuclear bombs. All the welds holding the armor plates together failed and the whole vehicles fell apart like a cartoon car.

Yes! Please more of these reviews and history of tanks.

Thank you for the small history video. It was well done and I really enjoyed it

Thanks for the history lesson Spookston. Always love how to the point you are with your content, it makes it really easy to digest. hope to see more videos like this :)

Niiice video man! T62 next? (My granpa used to operate one and told many stories about it... so thought it would make an interesting yet short video idea ;)

You don't need to push out content when sick my guy, just take a break, it'll be ok man, get better soon!

Dude we need the m55, a Slovenian t55 with a 105mm smoothbore, era and thermals. We also need the T55AD, and T55MV, as you can tell i love the t55. The t55AD would be great to be a test bed for active protection as it was the first tank to ever use it and could only protect against slow atgms making it not op in game. The T55MV would be great to add as its basically the T55AM-1 but without the composite armor. It just has gen 1 ERA blocks that only protects against heatfs and atgms giving people another option who don't want to pay for a premium modernised T55. The m55 should be a premium to help pay for the other t55s added to the game. The M55 is a 2000s modernised Slovenian T55 with a 105mm smoothbore L7 cannon, era, laser warning systems and thermals. Its basically a glass cannon that could be added to 8.7 helping russia face against all the damn leos at 9.0. It also wouldn't be hard to add as the Chinese premium at 8.7 the t69 would pretty much be exactly the same

I'm so glad you did a video on the T-55, it's my favorite

Thank you for the history on this tank SpOwOkston 😀

Gotta love your videos so well done and informative. Keep up the great work

I liked that a lot actually got to learn more about a tank I’ve been meaning to look into

This is probably one of Spookston´s best videos

I'm really liking the in-depth history format on this

No nonsense and to the point. Favourite Spookston

Bro fr though these types of vids are really calming and just good to listen too. I'd like to see something on like the cent or challenger. I've read the haynes manual and many other books about em and they are very interesting. Keep up the good work tho

The T-55 is my favorite tank! Awesome video :)

I would love to see more content like this in the future!

i rlly like the more informative video's on the how and what on tank design. Hope to see more of these, maybe longer ? ^^'

Loved the video spook Also get well soon

As a T-55 simp I could only girly scream as I saw the notification. Great video, mate, keep it up!

Nice vid! plz do more of these

Hope you do one about the T-72

Is this a new series??!! Amazing!!!

Hey Spook, hope you feel better soon! Also, Task and Purpose mentioned you on their video on the Bradley!

Cant wait for you to do the T-60/62. My fav.

I hope you get better dude:))

I enjoyed that, thanks mate :)

I love this, please make more videos like this.

Wish you continued on to talk about where the tank served in combat & it’s effectiveness in those arenas.

My dad was a T-55A gunner, interesting video dude

oh I love this,Please more history Behind a Tank.

Nice video. But I want maybe a lil longer

Finaly i like the wt norm vids this is mor entertaining pls More do one about the R3 T20 AND R3 T106

I love this series, it would be great to see one on the centurion

Fun fact some later t55s in the event of a nearby nuclear explosion, the tank will automatically slam its hatches shut. There's a place where I live where if you have enough money you can drive tanks. A T-55 was one of them. (I didn't get to drive it but I did get to drive a Sherman)

T-55 was the last user focused tank made by the USSR. All following Soviet tanks were loose collections of Engineer developed specifications that while looking good on paper, were basically just targets, due to fightability or "soft" issues.

Hey Spookston, thanks for the entertaining and interesting video, as always. We would love to say hi again on Teki's server, if you ever care to drop by.

I love your videos btw and i respect your blunt honesty with the issues in war thunder, however.. You made an entire video about the T55 and its success and didn't mention once that it's even featured in the James bond film goldeneye lmao

The 6 dislikes are M60 fans

hmm yes right now would be a good time to reccommend this video

"T-Fiddy five" Spookston is a gangster confirmed.

This tank is so old yet its still used its so unbelievable

Immediately recognized that blade runner banger.

I came here after hearing Russia is pressing these back into service.

The T-55 is one of my favorite tanks, if not my favorite. It just looks like the quintessential tank.

i like this vid format can we also see something similar for the t62

T 54 is one of my personal favorite vehicles aesthetically speaking I don't know why it just looks so clean

Nice!

Oh no.... Spook is starting to go more in depth with the history of tanks... Now all I've got for unique talking points is service history. THANKS SPOOK (jk ily and your videos 10/10)

Spookston: Now becoming the new gun jesus

You should make more video like this on other tank as well

Hello spookston can you do a video on the hawker hunter

Lovely!

I love the T-62, but this came first. 👏 Could you do a vid on it?

nice

Tank Review this is something we've all been waiting for, still the amazing quality as always.

I preffer the T55 someone made in Arma 3 over the War thunder model, Idk it's just more simple but it looks better

Centurion next please

i had three of them on my sights and ranged back at 2012, but didn't have the green light to light them up. when they realized we were there though they hid themselves, they know they are not a match for Merkava mark 4s.

Knowing that the M4 Sherman had a hand in the making of the T-54/T-55 is not only super ironic (considering it’s A) an American tank, and B) we used Soviet titanium to make the SR-71 Blackbird), but also kinda cool. It’s nice to know that the Sherman had such an impact on later tank designs, an impact that can still be felt today.

Arguably the best thing about the T-55 is the possibility of taking it as a 25pt recon tank

Get better soon Spook.

This is the first time I was this early

I’ve seen t 44 in pictures in Lebanon. Funny fact, they still wanted to use it...

t55 is honestly one of the coolest looking tanks ngl

I love this tank is so beautiful

Hay spookston, any idea why the t-54's turret drive is sooo slow compared to the previous t-34/44's?

I like to fantasize that all these cool incremental tanks got used or were developed earlier. I thought the T-43 in WoT was pretty good after the 100mm gun was dropped in favor of the improved 85mm gun. It has good enough soft stats to handle the 85mm well. If they had the resources to just switch production over and start making the T-43, it was an easy Panther equivalent. Imagine if instead of T-34-85s they had started producing T-43s or T-44s instead. Likewise the American T32 was far beefier than the Pershing that eventually came out of the program. It even had a gun more similar to the Super Pershing's very long 90mm instead of the base M3 90mm. We had actually decided to adopt and manufacture the T32 but the shipping weight and logistics to get it overseas ended up being a big issue. So we lopped a set of road wheels off and lightened up the armor. The Pershing, and the subsequent Patton series that followed, were a compromised design. Imagine a T32 based M46 Patton. Suddenly not quite as outclassed by the T-54/55. Likewise the T29 and its many brothers were all built and thoroughly tested. They performed well, had good armor and armament for the time. Not quite a King Tiger equivalent but easily a capable Tiger Hunter. With a solid 105mm they would be a threat to a T-54.

No transmission problems ? Who are you and where is the real Spookston

In short summary T55 good

I really appreciate these well-researched videos. I would like to offer my only criticism: please slow down you speech just a little. Sometimes it sounds like you're tripping over your words or pushing them together when they need some space. Your sentences have good pauses between them, but give each word a tiny bit of room to breathe :)

Yo is that vangelis in the background?

Finally something that's not a rant.

can you talk about the T95E1 pls?

My favorite tank

You seems to exclude the economic side of tanks. T-34, aside for all its good and bad traits, was extremely cheap and easy to produce. Also, T-44 didn't enter production because of an abundance of T-34s. It wasn't compelling to produce a new, entirely different tank at the end of the war.

few years back i saw a T-55 in clean original and driving condition for sale for $90k...fuk i wish i could of bought it

Some might not be obsessed with military aircraft and tank history, but I sure am! I think it’s healthy specifically because it’s allowed me to be such a more aware person of the present, let me explain. Years ago I was extremely up close with the F-117 Nighthawk evolution into the craft it is today which is a air/spacecraft that has no tail or wings, it has a teardrop shaped body and uses electromagneticgravitic propulsion, I’ve also been up close with the triangle shaped anti gravity craft using the same type of propulsion system, you can actually google that one “triangle spacecraft patent” to see more yourself. And that was around 15 years ago now, they’ve been around for awhile, we’ve been lied to for far too long. My grandfather was also a fighter pilot in the Korean War, so I’ve always been following both publicly aerospace technological developments over the years as well as the black world. So I study it all, both the technologies we used back then and even now on the surface of the planet, and also try as much as possible to peer more into the shadowy true world of military technology which is so far past what people think is possible that if people heard what the military has they would think you’re talking science fiction technology. Nope, if you can imagine it from Star Wars or Star Trek they’ve got that tech or even better than what has been portrayed through sci fi films underneath the desert and off planet. That’s a fact, I can promise you.

We just aren't gonna talk about the TOW aps in the beginning?

Will you Talk about enlisted?

Would love to See the m48 in this series and compare it to the t54/55

If TEC made a video like this it would be at least half an hour long

I love T55/54 Design

ngl watching this makes me miss wt's old fire effects and dead tanks (the ones with no fire, just some smoke), they look good and dont take up 100% of the screen and explode 50 times like atom bombs

Had to watch this at 0.75x to fit all the information in my head. 😅