V-54 diesel engine

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The V-54 diesel engine is a Soviet V-12, water-cooled, four-stroke diesel powerplant widely used to propel T-54 main battle tanks and their variants.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf diesel engine
tank engine
application armored fighting vehicles
aspiration naturally aspirated
bore 150 mm
compressionIgnition true
configuration V-12
coolingMedium liquid coolant
coolingSystem water-cooled
coolingType forced circulation water cooling
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
crankshaftSupport seven main bearings
cylinderArrangement 60-degree V
cylinderCount 12
designedBy Alexander Morozov NERFINISHED
designedFor T-54 tank family NERFINISHED
displacement 38.88 L
era Cold War
family V-2 engine family
fuelPumpType inline injection pump
fuelSystem direct injection
fuelType diesel fuel
governorType mechanical governor
introducedInDecade 1950s
manufacturer Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau NERFINISHED
mass approximately 900 kg
numberOfStrokesPerCycle 4
originModel V-2 tank diesel engine
powerOutput 520 hp
about 382 kW
primaryUse main battle tank propulsion
startingSystem compressed air starter
electric starter
stroke 180 mm
strokeCycle four-stroke
successor V-55 diesel engine
typicalOperatingSpeed up to about 2000 rpm
usedByCountry China NERFINISHED
Soviet Union NERFINISHED
Warsaw Pact states NERFINISHED
various export customers
usedInVehicle T-54 main battle tank NERFINISHED
T-54-based engineering vehicles
T-54A main battle tank NERFINISHED
T-54B main battle tank NERFINISHED
T-54M main battle tank NERFINISHED
T-55 main battle tank NERFINISHED
Type 59 tank NERFINISHED
valvetrain overhead valve

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T-54 tank engineType V-54 diesel engine