An ex-Russian T-62 in Ukrainian colors. After losing a thousand of its best T-80 and T-72 tanks in Ukraine, the Kremlin early this summer began pulling 50-year-old T-62s out of long-term storage and ...

World War II era experimentations with the likes of the huge Panzer VIII Maus, a 188-ton monstrosity that never made it past the prototype stage, made one thing quite clear: There's historically been ...

David Axe writes about ships, planes, tanks, drones and missiles. Oct 27, 2022, 08:00am EDT Updated Oct 27, 2022, 10:02pm EDT An ex-Russian T-62 in Ukrainian colors. After losing more than a thousand ...

Summary and Key Points: As the Russo-Ukraine War enters its third year, Russia faces an unsustainable loss of tanks, forcing it to redeploy Cold War-era T-62 tanks with additional armor. However, the ...

Introduced in the early 1960s, the Soviet T-62 was the world’s first production tank armed with a smoothbore gun, designed to outmatch NATO armor of the era. Heavier and more powerful than the T-55, ...

The Russian Army has begun deployment of one of the oldest tanks in its stockpile, the T-62 main battle tank. The T-62, which the Soviet Union produced between 1962 and 1973, is poorly armored by ...

The technical condition of most of these machines is unsatisfactory. Russia is experiencing a shortage of modern armored vehicles. Therefore, the occupiers are forced to throw old T-62 tanks to the ...

Algeria has repurposed stored T-62 tanks by removing their original turrets and fitting them with the Berezhok combat module, creating a compact infantry support vehicle often compared to the BMPT ...

T-62 tanks fitted with Berezhok turrets lined up at the Central Logistics Base. (Algerian Ministry of National Defence) Algeria is converting more T-62 main battle tanks into fire-support vehicles, it ...