Trumpeter 00376 1/35 T-62 Main Battle Tank Mod.1962  [TP00376]

The T-62 at first was in reality conceived as a buddy tool on T-55.Being actually a T55 up gunned with the2A20 115mm cannon. Both T-55 as well as the T-62 used the same tires, track, motor, transmission, hatches and also other fixtures. The main differences between the two cars was the T-62's lengthened hull and new turret design. The most recent UT-5 can-non could fire its BR-5 APFSDS steel round through roughly 300mm of armor at several 1000 meters. This will be sufficient to handle the then recognized danger of such NATO tanks while the united states of america M-48 and after forms of the Uk Centurion. The T-62 was at fact developed to consist of long range shooting capacity to Soviet tank regiments being put alongside T-55s, to the senior years of its execution it fulfilled quite comparable part because the T-55. Despite being introduced in 1960, the enhanced performance of its successors, the T-72, the T-62 nevertheless views solution today in many worldwide's armed forces the Arab countries being the utmost consumers from Warsaw pact. Egypt, Iraq, and Syria happen notable users through the T-62, Israel has acquired a quantity of T-62s in clashes featuring its next-door neighbors and possesses reconstructed them to IDF requirements.

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