When British-built Chieftain tanks met Soviet-designed T-62s on the battlefields of the Iran–Iraq War in 1981, it was a clash ...

A T-62 lays a smokescreen in 1984. Wikimedia Commons Russia’s tank shortage has gotten so dire that the United Kingdom for one believes the Russian army’s best tank formation, the 1st Guards ...

The T-62 isn’t moving, not even between shots. That’s what you’d expect if the tank were functioning as a sort of semi-mobile pillbox or artillery emplacement, perhaps without a driver aboard.

The T-62 is primarily known as a main battle tank. It continued to be used in that role for a long time, fielded by Russia until the late 2000s. Even then, the models were not disposed of but ...

A photograph shows an abandoned Russian T-62 tank in southern Ukraine on October 7, 2022. New footage circulating online appears to show Ukrainian forces scoring a direct hit on what seems to be a ...

With a crew of four soldiers within, they did major damage with their 76.2 mm tank gun and 7.62 mm DT machine gun, took on attacks from anti-tank weaponry with their sloped armor — a simple ...

An abandoned Russian T-62 tank near Novovorontsovka, southern Ukraine on October 7, 2022. On March 6, 2023, the British Ministry of Defense (MOD) said that Russian forces were deploying the 60 ...

By comparison, the Russian T-90M generates 26 horsepower per ton, while the American M-1A1 produces 22 horsepower per ton. The T-62’s 14 horsepower per ton means that the tank can hardly move.

Developed from the T-54/55 series Soviet tanks, the T-62 was actually considered a very good tank in its day—and it did introduce many design features that became standard in future Soviet and ...

Get to Know These Badass Tanks Still, the Centurion wasn’t the most prolific of tanks. Only 4,423 were manufactured between 1946 and 1962, compared to 12,000 M48s and 100,000 T-55s.

Ukraine copied Russia's tactics of driving a tank filled with explosives toward an enemy position. The brigade told Insider the driver had to position the tank, jam the accelerator, and jump out.

Storage depots around Russia house over 10,000 old tanks. The vehicles range from 1990s-vintage T-90s to creaking T-54s from the 1940s. Only a small portion, perhaps 10 percent, are still operable.