At the armored repair plant Z 153 The Ministry of Defense of Vietnam is working on the modernization of the T-54 and T-55 tanks, According bmpd.
Currently in Vietnam there are about 1200 such tanks.
“Despite the recent order in Russia 64 new T-90S / SK, modernized T-54/55 in the near future will form the basis of the country's armored fleet. The modernization option under the designation T-54M3 was developed quite a long time ago together with Israel., who supplied a sample of the 105 mm M-68 gun to replace the 100 mm D-10T2S cannon, meteorological sensors, modern telescopic sight with IR channel, sets of additional composite and dynamic armor ", - says the material.
later, however,, marks resource, the tank gun M-68 had to be abandoned due to its high cost. Nevertheless, the cars were equipped with an additional fence, minimizing the cumulative effect, and the electronic components of the tank were protected by special modules.
