Polish OOB 5.5

[Marcello]

004 TO-54, 007 TO-55, 021 TO-34 - should be removed with corresponding formation 11. Poland never had flame tanks (TO-54 and TO-55 were non-numerous variants BTW).

If you have a source clarifying the export or lack thereof of the flamethrowr variants, it is going to be worth its weight in gold.

Heat ammo was never such numerous in Soviet tanks, at least early ones (now: 15 HE, 15 AP, 13 Heat). I suggest 20 HE, 15 AP, 8 Heat as closer to truth.

HEAT issue varied widely across countries, years and situation. There is nothing wrong with a lowish HEAT loadout if no info is available, since HEAT was indeed expensive and often issued in limited quantities, but it should be noted that as far the T-54/55 are concerned BK-5/BK-5M was for a long time the only ammo that stood a chance to penetrate postwar western MBTs head on; as such there was an incentive to increase it.

There should be no Heat - spinless 3BK5 was introduced in the USSR only in 1961 (I suspect, that in Poland a couple years later), and there was no earlier Heat round for D-10 gun mentioned in Russian sources. In Tekhnika i Vooruzhenie 10/2008 monograph on T-54 there is ammo for T-54A quoted: 20 HE, 14 AP.

BK-5 may have been available since 1958 to USSR. Yugoslavia supposedly did get some in 1961.