The main combat tank T-62. The world's first tank with a smoothbore cannon. Baryatinsky M.B.

It was the T-62 that was the world's first serial tank with a smoothbore cannon. However, despite the phenomenal firing power and armor penetration of the U-5TS, the Hammer, installed on the “sixty-second”, the military with all their might inserted the Uralvagonzavod’s tank “sticks into the wheels”, giving preference to the Kharkov T-64, on which huge funds have already been spent. Only the personal intervention of Marshal Chuykov allowed to launch the T-62 in serial production.

new medium tanks participated in the entry of the Warsaw Treaty of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (numerous T-62 photographs on the streets of Prague became widely known), and Battle baptism was accepted on the island of Damansky in March 1969, where one car, hit from the RPG-7, failed under the ice and was subsequently raised by the Chinese. The “sixty -second ones” fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya, Dagestan and South Ossetia, Syria and Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Angola and Chad, burned the Israeli “centurions” in the Bekaa Valley, Iranian “chiefs” and M60 near Susengerd, South African “Oliphanta” Kuyto-channel...

The book of the leading historian armored vehicles not only in all details describes the history of creation, adoption of the T-62, but also traces the entire huge combat path of the legendary tank.

The publication is illustrated by exclusive drawings.