After the 1967 conflict with Egypt, Israel found themselves in possession of numerous Egyptian T-55 tanks amongst may of the captured equipment of that conflict. Many were still functional, so Israel converted and upgraded these to the “Tiran”, in the West it is refereed to as the Ti-67,(Tank Israeli-1967). Of the improvements made were the replacement of the 100mm main gun to the Western 105mm, engine, transmission, fire control, night vision, rage finder, machine guns, numerous storage boxes and additional armor will be found, Mainly used today by reserve units and replaced by newer tanks as these become unserviceable.
