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

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 ...

The T-54A was also reverse-engineered by China, resulting in the Type 59 tank, of which 10,000 were built and extensively exported, with combat use by Congo, Iraq, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan and Vietnam.

Reports of Russia upgrading T-62 tanks have sparked speculation about depleted reserves—but the situation is more complex. While hundreds of tanks are being modernized, they include a mix of ...

The sights allowed a T-62 gunner to fire his 115-millimeter smoothbore gun around a mile during the day and maybe half a mile at night. Accuracy largely depended on whether the tank was moving ...

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.

Russia’s T-64 was designed to be a more advanced successor to the T-54/55 and T-62 tanks that defined the Red Army in the 1940s. In fact, it was the first Main Battle Tank to feature composite ...

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.

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 ...