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

The T-62 initially had been conceived as a companion tool on T-55.Being Essentially a T55 up gunned with the2A20 115mm cannon. Both T-55 and also the T-62 utilized a similar wheels, track, motor, transmission, hatches as well as other fixtures. The primary differences between the 2 cars had been the T-62's lengthened hull and brand new turret design. The latest UT-5 can-non could fire its BR-5 APFSDS steel round through roughly 300mm of armor at a number of 1000 meters. This is adequate to manage the then recognized danger of such NATO tanks whilst the United states M-48 and after types of the British Centurion. The T-62 had been built to add long range shooting capacity to Soviet tank regiments being put alongside T-55s, in 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 many worldwide's armed forces the Arab countries being the maximum customers from Warsaw pact. Egypt, Iraq, and Syria happen notable users from the T-62, Israel has acquired a quantity of T-62s in clashes featuring its next-door neighbors and contains reconstructed them to IDF requirements.

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