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Back to Angola The T55 Main Battle Tank
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Back to Angola | The T55 Main Battle Tank. T-54/T-55s began appearing in Southern Africa in the late 1970s, when Angola and Mozambique, were bolstered with modern Soviet military hardware. • Angolan Army T-54s were first blooded during Operation Askari, in 1981. At least five were subsequently destroyed in encounters with South African Eland or Ratel-90 armoured cars, and some were captured. • During the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, another three T-55s of Angola's 21st Brigade were shot out by Ratel tank destroyers armed with ZT3 Ingwe ATGMs near the Lomba River. • On 9 November 1987, an engagement between South African and Angolan tanks occurred when thirteen Olifant Mk1As eliminated two T-55s in a nine-minute skirmish. T-55s again participated in a critical engagement near Cuito Cuanavale on 14 February 1988, when Cuba's 3rd Tank Battalion counter-attacked to spare Angola's 16th Brigade virtual annihilation by 61 Mechanised Infantry Battalion Group and the 4th South African Infantry Battalion. Six T-55s were lost (three to RPGs, three to Olifants, one more was damaged), but the attack blunted the South African advance, safeguarding the cohesion of the Angolan line. • ---- • The media is shared for educational purposes and is shared under the FAIR USE (in US copyright law) the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder. • 🎖 #SAHistory #MilitaryHistory #SAMHChannel #SouthAfricanHistory #Military #grensoorlog #bushwar #borderwar #southafricanborderwar #angolancivilwar #sadf • #History #LestWeForget #Education #UionDefenseForce #SADF #SANDF #SAAF #SANavy #za_special_forces
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