Main battle tank T-62. The world"s first tank with a smoothbore gun
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It was the T-62 that became 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, which had already been spent on huge facilities. Only the personal intervention of Marshal Chuykov allowed to launch the T-62 in serial production.
The new average tanks participated in the entry of the Warsaw Treaty of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (the T-62 photographs on the streets of Prague became widely known, and military baptism was accepted on the island of Damansky in March 1969, where one car, where one car, was, Bumped from RPG-7, failed under the ice and was subsequently raised by the Chinese. "Sixty -second" fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya, Dagestan and South Ossetia, Syria and Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Angola and Chade, 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 of 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
The new average tanks participated in the entry of the Warsaw Treaty of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (the T-62 photographs on the streets of Prague became widely known, and military baptism was accepted on the island of Damansky in March 1969, where one car, where one car, was, Bumped from RPG-7, failed under the ice and was subsequently raised by the Chinese. "Sixty -second" fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya, Dagestan and South Ossetia, Syria and Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Angola and Chade, 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 of 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
Author:
Author:Baryatinsky Mikhail Borisovich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Military Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-160677-0
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