[JaM]

Did you ever been in T-72? I was. Crew compartment is so small, that if you are higher than 1.75m you will not fit in. All thee crew members are surrounded with ammo.Any penetrating hit will cook off ammo,and whole crew is a dead meat. Some T-72 crews tells that they will have quick death...(some of my friends were tankers, served in T-72M1) T-55 is little bigger than T-72 (T-62 is bigger than T-55). If T-55 is penetrated, there is a chance that at least one or two crew members survive.If T-72 is penetrated,no one will survive.

About those Centurions, During 1973 war, all Israeli Centurions were hit.Some of them were repaired, and fought another day again.I read stories about Tzwicka fight against Syrians (dont remember name correctly), where his three tanks stopped Syrian tank battalion. Syrians even thought that they fighting against Israeli batalion, so they withdraw.All his tanks took many hits, but were capable fight back.