The Cold War ended December 26, 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With that it seemed all our old Roco, Petner Panzer, and other Cold War military models would no longer be useful for modern wargames or modern military modelling.
However, it the old tanks and other military vehicles of the old Soviet Union have seen a lot of action since the fall of the Soviet Union. Old armor has been used all over Eastern Europe, the Middle East and sadly now even in Central Europe.
Those old T-54, T-62 and T-72 tanks never left the inventories of many armies and were never fully replaced by the T-80, T-90 or Armada tanks. The new armor was, apparently, too expensive for the value received, and so mass production never took place on a scale massive enough to replace older tanks. No more that 4,000 T90 tanks were made, and over a 1,000 of them were made in India, and about 500 others were exported to Algeria.
The Russians have lost over 150 T54 tanks in Ukraine and hundreds more are likely in service. Often they are deployed as artillery in an indirect fire mode. How many T54 tanks have been re-deployed to other borders to replace newer tanks that could be deployed to Ukraine is unknown.
The Russians have deployed thousands of T-62 and T-72 tanks to combat in Ukraine, often as infantry support tanks.
Petner Panzers makes great T62 and T72 tanks. Roco and SDV also make HO scale T54 / 55 series tanks.
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