In 2022, Russia sent T-62 tanks to reinforce the Southern Ukraine offensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine; reportedly up to 600 T-62s were taken out of long-term storage.

2023年4月1日 · The T-62 medium tank, known under the factory index of Object 166, formally entered service in the Soviet Army on 12 August 1961. The tank was designed and built at Factory No. 183 in Nizhniy Tagil, known as Uralvagonzavod.

2024年7月10日 · Ukrainian troops pose with an up-armored Russian T-62 "turtle tank" they captured. An analyst scrutinized satellite imagery, crunched the numbers and came to a startling conclusion. Twenty-eight...

2024年10月19日 · The T-62 is a Russian-made Main Battle Tank (MBT) and further development of the main battle tank T-55. The T-62 was produced between 1961 and 1975.

2024年2月14日 · The T-62M is an upgrade of the Soviet-era T-62 main battle tank, developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to enhance its capabilities in response to Western tank developments. This upgrade targeted improvements in the …

T-62: an outdated weapon of war. In March, the UK Ministry of Defense reported that Russia has been deploying T-62 tanks over 60 years old in response to armored vehicle losses in Ukraine. The possibility is that even the Russian 1st Guards Tank Army, its main tank force, will use T-62s to make up for losses.

2022年10月21日 · The author of the article notes the successful use of T-62M tanks by the Syrian army and believes that modernized T-62s could be used to equip not only reservists called up under the partial modernization campaign, but also units from Eastern Ukrainian regions that have recently joined the Russian Federation — the militia forces of which have ...

2023年12月5日 · More Russian T-62 tanks are showing up along the front line in Ukraine with add-on armor and other enhancements—modern sights and mine-clearing plows, for example.

2024年4月16日 · It was designed in the early 1960s and saw extensive use during the Cold War. The T-62 featured advanced technology for its time, including a smoothbore gun and composite armor. The T-62 Main Battle Tank (MBT) was the last in a series of excellent Soviet tank designs that began with the T-34 in the late 1930s.

The T-62 first appeared in a Moscow parade in May 1965, and went on to become a symbol of Soviet power. It was the first tank to carry a smooth bore rather than a rifled gun, more than ten years before the West introduced something similar.