[Marcello]

There is one issue that has been bothering me for some time. The T-54 has a an ammo load of 34 rounds. During its lifetime it was subjected to various modernizations and a typical one was removing the bow machine gun. Now, does anybody know if this was used to add few rounds? Or was the load still 34 ? Because if I recall correctly bringing it up to 43 required modifications to the fuel tanks.
Note that I am thinking about limited modernizations here, not extensive ones like the T-54M upgrade.