T-62 Main Battle Tank 1965–2005Bloomsbury Publishing, 15. märts 2011 - 48 pages The Soviet Army hastily developed the T-62 in a struggle to compete against the rapid proliferation of NATO tanks in the 1960s. It was essentially a modification of the widely-manufactured T-55 tank with the addition of a new 115mm gun. Within the USSR itself, the T-62 was quickly superseded, but it was widely exported, becoming a critical component of the Egyptian and Syrian armies in the 1973 Yom Kippur conflict and heavily influenced later designs of the M1 Abrams and Challenger tanks. In the first English-language history of this tank, Steven Zaloga examines the development of the T-62 using detailed combat descriptions to bring to life the operational history of this tank from the deserts of the Sinai to the harsh terrain of Afghanistan. |
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The Khrushchev Initiatives | 8 |
The StopGap Tank | 12 |
On the Path to T72 | 17 |
Swansong of the Missile Tank | 18 |
T62 Evolution | 20 |
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