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T-55 / T-55AM
T-55 / T-55AM Main Battle Tank
Tanque de batalla principal T-55 / T-55AM
GROUND_VEHICLE MBT MEDIUM DEGRADED Soviet ×600–900
Description
100mm-gun main battle tank, backbone of the Cuban armored corps since the 1960s. Most have not received modernization since the Soviet collapse; spare-parts pipeline is thin.
Capability notes
Effective against light armor and infantry; obsolete against modern ATGMs and air-delivered munitions. Storage at Managua and Pinar del Río armor depots.
Quantity evidence · 600–900
Wikipedia FAR equipment list cites ~900 T-55 family hulls, with most in storage or reserve; GlobalFirepower 2025 lists ~900 total tanks across all marks.
🏛 Storage / location
🏛 Underground Arsenal (Havana area) — FAR weapons depot · MIL_STATION
Also stored here: 2S1 Gvozdika · 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm · BM-21 Grad · HOWO (Sinotruk) · T-62 · T-72 · Ural-4320
📍 23.0500, -82.4000
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Provenance
Origin / Origen Soviet
Supplier / Proveedor USSR
Year acquired / Año adquirido 1960 – 1985
Operational % / % operativo 30%
IISS Military Balance 2025
[2023 Zvezda] visually confirmed in the >100m underground Havana-area arsenal (Voennaya Priyomka, Dec 2023).
📚 Sources
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🔗 RELATED
🏛 Storage site 1
Underground Arsenal (Havana area) — FAR weapons depotMIL_STATION · (undisclosed, near Havana)
📦 Co-located assets 7
●BM-21 Grad BM-21 Grad 122mm multiple rocket launche●T-72 T-72 Main Battle Tank●2S1 Gvozdika 2S1 Gvozdika 122mm Self-Propelled Howitz●2S3 Akatsiya 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm Self-Propelled Howitz●T-62 T-62 Main Battle Tank
🎯 Related operations 0
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