T-62
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- Weapon.armour
- Cast turret 214 (242 after 1972) mm turret front 153 mm turret sides 97 mm turret rear 40 mm turret roof Hull102 mm at 60° hull front 79 mm hull upper sides 15 mm hull lower sides 46 mm at 0° hull rear 20 mm hull bottom 31 mm hull roof
- Weapon.engine
- V-55V (based on the Kharkiv model V-2)
- Weapon.crew
- 4 (commander, driver, gunner, loader)
- Weapon.engine_power
- 580 (later 620) hp.
- Weapon.fuel_capacity
- 960 L 1360 L with two 200-liter extra fuel tanks
- Weapon.pw_ratio
- 14.5 hp/tonne (10.8 kW/tonne)
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.name
- T-62
- Weapon.image
- ParkPatriot2015part10-12.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 280px
- Weapon.caption
- A T-62 Main Battle Tank
- Weapon.type
- Medium tank (Warsaw Pact designation)Main battle tank (NATO designation)
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.is_UK
- yes
- Weapon.service
- 1961–present
- Weapon.used_by
- See operators
- Weapon.wars
- See combat history
- Weapon.designer
- OKB-520 design bureau
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Article
51 sectionsContents
- Development history
- The initial requirements
- Obiekt 140
- T-62A (Object 165)
- Object 166
- Design
- Armament
- Mobility
- Armor
- Equipment
- Limitations
- Production history
- Service history
- Soviet Union
- Sino-Soviet border conflict
- Soviet–Afghan War
- Russia
- War in Chechnya
- 2008 South Ossetia war
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Foreign service
- Angola
- Bulgaria
- Other Warsaw Pact members
- Israel
- Iraq
- Libya
- Cuba
- Gulf War
- Variants
- Soviet Union
- Algeria
- Bulgaria
- Egypt
- France
- Israel
- North Korea
- Russia
- Ukraine
- United States
- Operators
- Current operators
- Former operators
- Evaluation-only operators
- Combat history
- See also
- Tanks of comparable role, performance and era
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
The T-62 is a Soviet main battle tank that was first introduced in 1961. As a further development of the T-55 series, the T-62 retained many similar design elements of its predecessor including low profile and thick turret armour.
In contrast with previous tanks, which were armed with rifled tank guns, the T-62 was the first production tank armed with a smoothbore tank gun which could fire APFSDS rounds at higher velocities (the U.S. prototype T95 medium tank was the first tank ever built with a smoothbore gun).