JVBT-55A
The aim of this project was to develop for foreign customers a special tracked vehicle on the tank chassis T-55A using construction groups of the liberation tank VT-55A, which in addition to liberation tasks would be able to lift loads up to 20 tons (raise the front or rear of the middle tank, move the tower tank set, etc.) and perform landscaping using a tank bulldozer.
The development of JVBT-55A began in the Development Plant Turčianskych strojárni n.p. Martin in 1967 at the request of the former GDR. It ended the production of one prototype in 1970. The first series of these vehicles was produced in 1971, serial production continued until 1983. Approximately 50% of the vehicles produced were exported from Martin to the countries of the former Warsaw Pact, the rest to the so-called non-socialist states.
The vehicle is able to overcome water obstacles up to a width of 1000 m deep wading using the device "RIVER" to a depth of 5 m. Shooting and radiation resistance is at the level of the tank T-55A. With a tank T-55A has a unified power unit, transmission and chassis.
Number of produced pieces: 508
Users (exports): GDR (used under the designation T-55TK), Finland (machines from ex-GDR), MLR, Yugoslavia (used under the designation T-55TZI), USSR
Source: MOT 9/2000
The aim of this project was to develop for foreign customers a special tracked vehicle on the tank chassis T-55A using construction groups of the liberation tank VT-55A, which in addition to liberation tasks would be able to lift loads up to 20 tons (raise the front or rear of the middle tank, move the tower tank set, etc.) and perform landscaping using a tank bulldozer.
The development of JVBT-55A began in the Development Plant Turčianskych strojárni n.p. Martin in 1967 at the request of the former GDR. It ended the production of one prototype in 1970. The first series of these vehicles was produced in 1971, serial production continued until 1983. Approximately 50% of the vehicles produced were exported from Martin to the countries of the former Warsaw Pact, the rest to the so-called non-socialist states.
The vehicle is able to overcome water obstacles up to a width of 1000 m deep wading using the device "RIVER" to a depth of 5 m. Shooting and radiation resistance is at the level of the tank T-55A. With a tank T-55A has a unified power unit, transmission and chassis.
Number of produced pieces: 508
Users (exports): GDR (used under the designation T-55TK), Finland (machines from ex-GDR), MLR, Yugoslavia (used under the designation T-55TZI), USSR
Source: MOT 9/2000
