Military History Museum Piešťany (
Slovak: Vojenské historické múzeum Piešťany, abbreviation VHM Piešťany) is a military museum in
Piešťany in western
Slovakia
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.
It is located in
Piešťany Airport
Piešťany Airport is an airport serving spa town of Piešťany, Slovakia
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in buildings of former military base. It was opened in 2004. Expositions of the museum are focused on aircraft and vehicles of the
Czechoslovak army between years 1945 and 1992. As of 31 December 2019, the Piešťany Museum Department registered 9,272 collection items in the collection fund, which are part of 22 museum collections.
Exhibits include several MiG-29s, many MiG-21s, MiG-23s, different Sukhoi aircraft, several T-34, T-55 and T-72 tanks and many others vehicles and aircraft which served in Czechoslovak and Slovak armies.
File:Bývalé letectvo - panoramio.jpg, Outdoor exposition of aircraft, various MiG-21
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nickn ...
fighters
File:Smutný pohľad - panoramio.jpg, Outdoor exposition of helicopters, Mi-24 and Mi-17
File:Hala č.1 - panoramio.jpg, MiG-29 fighter, Museum in Piešťany has several aircraft of this type
File:Su 25 - panoramio.jpg, Su-25 aircraft with armament
File:Hala č.2 -ľahká obrnená technika. - panoramio.jpg, Exposition of IFV vehicles
File:Stredný tank T-72M1 - panoramio.jpg, Exposition on tanks, T-72
The T-72 is a family of Soviet/Russian main battle tanks that entered production in 1969. The T-72 was a development of the T-64, which was troubled by high costs and its reliance on immature developmental technology. About 25,000 T-72 tanks h ...
and T-55AM2
File:Dobová výzbroj, výstroj a technika čs. armády, používaná v období rokov 1945 – 1992. - panoramio.jpg, Exposition of military trucks
File:Tanková technika - panoramio.jpg, Exposition of vehicles on T-34
The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in 1940. When introduced its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was less powerful than its contemporaries while its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against anti-tank weapons. The C ...
chassis
References
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Museums in Trnava Region
Piešťany