00376 Trumpeter 1/35 T-62 Main Battle Tank Mod.1962  [TP00376]

The T-62 initially was in fact conceived as a friend tool on T-55.Being really a T55 up gunned with the2A20 115mm cannon. Both T-55 plus the T-62 used an identical tires, track, motor, transmission, hatches and also other fixtures. The main differences between the 2 cars was the T-62's lengthened hull and completely new turret design. The latest UT-5 can-non could fire its BR-5 APFSDS metal round through approximately 300mm of armor at several 1000 meters. This will be adequate to manage the then recognized danger of such NATO tanks whilst the United states M-48 and after kinds of the British Centurion. The T-62 was in fact built to include long range shooting capacity to Soviet tank regiments being placed alongside T-55s, into the old age of its implementation it fulfilled quite similar role since the T-55. Despite being introduced in 1960, the improved performance of its successors, the T-72, the T-62 still views solution today in a lot of worldwide's armed forces the Arab countries being the maximum clients from Warsaw pact. Egypt, Iraq, and Syria happen notable users through the T-62, Israel has obtained a quantity of T-62s in clashes featuring its next-door neighbors and possesses reconstructed them to IDF requirements.

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