![]() ![]() During the next 25 years and across several contracts, the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) acquired 140 T-54s and over 1,600 T-55s. A Yugoslav Army delegation visited the Soviet military academy and attended a military exercise, at which they had a chance to see the new T-54 tanks in action. In the meantime, the relationship with the USSR started to improve after Stalin’s death. Without the means to produce spare parts for the newly acquired tanks, maintaining them became a rising problem. Yugoslav tankers replenish their M47 Patton’s ammunition Following an agreement, this time with the United States, between 19, Yugoslavia received 599 M4A3 Shermans and 319 M47 Patton tanks, 140 M18 Hellcat and 399 M36 Jackson tank destroyers as military aid part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, along with many other kinds of military vehicles. Production was slow and required skilled workers due to a lack of blueprints and standardized parts, which resulted in just five prototypes being built before the programme was cancelled. Two years later, an attempt to produce an unlicensed copy of the T-34-85, known as the Type A, proved unsuccessful. This was just before the Tito-Stalin Split of 1948, after which the relations with the Soviets became distant. Based on an agreement with the Soviet Union, 308 T-34-85 tanks and 52 SU-76M self-propelled guns arrived in 1947. ![]() Italian L6/40, M13/40, M14/41, and M15/42 tanks were also captured during the war and kept in limited service. Two armored brigades consisted of captured German Panzer IIs, Panzer IIIs and Panzer IVs, along with American M3 Stuarts and around five Soviet T-34-76s captured from German Anti-Partisan units. Context – Playing Both Sides of the Cold War Members of the Second Tank Brigade with their new T-34-85sĪfter the Second World War, Yugoslavia operated a wide variety of Axis and Allied armored vehicles. ![]()
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