Main battle tank T-62. The world's first tank with a smoothbore gun
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It was the T-62 that became the world's first mass-produced tank with a smoothbore gun. However, despite the phenomenal firepower and armor-piercing capability of the U-5TS Molot gun mounted on the Sixty-second, the military were trying their best to put "sticks in the wheels" of the Uralvagonzavod tank, preferring the Kharkov T-64, on which huge sums of money had already been spent. Only Marshal Chuikov's personal intervention allowed the T-62 to be put into serial production. The new medium tanks participated in the entry of the Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968 (numerous photos of T-62s on the streets of Prague became well known), and the baptism of fire took place on Damansky Island in March 1969, where one vehicle, hit by an RPG-7, fell through the ice and was subsequently recovered by the Chinese. "Sixty-second" fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya, Dagestan and South Ossetia, Syria and Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Angola and Chad, burned the Israeli "Centurions" in the Bekaa Valley, Iranian "Chiften" and M60 under Susengerd, South African "Olifants" under Kuito-Kanavale .... The book by the leading historian of armored vehicles not only describes in detail the history of creation, adoption for service, design of the T-62, but also traces the entire huge combat path of the legendary tank. The edition is illustrated with exclusive drawings.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series War and Us. Tank Collection
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