Amusing article in regards to museum tanks and the Ukraine

[Askold]

Originally Posted by Olefin

But I will take a T-55 any day against troops who dont have anti-armor weapons - or against scout cars or armored cars that only have machine guns for armament

and keep in mind for the game - many collectors and museums have stuff in lots better shape - Littlefield had several tanks and SPG's that were ready to rock given ammo as do several collectors in the US and the UK

Yeah, good points.

Finnish military also has some T-55s (and a few T-54s as well) mostly for training purposes, but some older reservists could end up using the few remaining tanks since those were the tanks they trained with when they were conscripts.

Some of the instructors did comment though that with the modern ammo those tanks can be a threat (although the few T-54s would probably just be buried so that only the turret is visible and used basically as AT cannons. Since otherwise the accurasy is pretty bad.)

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Likewise, if a war had started during the 90's there would have been Finnish reservists using Maxim machine guns.

And why not? Those things still worked and 7.62x54R is still as functional as it used to be (not to mention that Finland has plenty of ammo for that) and the only downside is the weight. Which is not that much of a problem if you just need a mg post for some checkpoint rather than plan on going offensive with it.