re: #24 ProBosniaLiberal

This is from one of the guys I followed on Twitter during the Libyan Revolutionary War.

The fact that North Korea still uses the T-55 Battle Tank is amazing. That thing was designed at the tail-end of WWII for cripes sake.

No, it wasn’t. The T-55 is actually the outgrowth of Soviet testing of the effects of secondary nuclear effects on the earlier T-54. It’s main initial feature was its overpressure system, designed to allow its crew to survive the pressure wave from a nuclear blast (the pressure wave travels further than the main blast wave).

North Korea also has some T-62 tanks, the T-62 being the T-55s successor. It does not, however, have any of the T-72 that was designed to replace the T-55 in second line units (first line units were to be equipped with the T-64 and T-80).