Russia Upgrades More Of Its Old T-62 Tanks—Maybe Only On The Outside
The post Russia Upgrades More Of Its Old T-62 Tanks—Maybe Only On The Outside appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. An upgraded Russian T-62 tank. Social media capture More Russian T-62 tanks are showing up along the front line in Ukraine with add-on armor and other enhancements—modern sights and mine-clearing plows, for example. A video that circulated on social media last week depicts a T-62 with explosive reactive armor blocks, an anti-drone cage and front-mounted mine-plows. The 60-year-old, but upgraded, tank reportedly belongs to one of the Russian brigades and regiments deployed around the ruins of Marinka in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The up-armored, mine-clearing T-62 showed up on social media just a few days after photos appeared online depicting one of the most upgraded T-62s. This variant of the four-person, 42-ton tank has reactive armor that technicians apparently borrowed from a modern T-90 tank, plus a modern-ish 1PN96MT-02 gunner’s sight for its 115-millimeter main gun. If there’s a downside to these add-ons, it’s that the T-62s all apparently still have their original 620-horsepower diesel engines, which produce much less power than a modern tank engine produces. An improved T-62 also is a heavier and slower T-62. It’s obvious why the Russian army in Ukraine is heaping armor and mine-clearing gear onto its aging T-62s, even at the cost of the tanks’ mobility. Every tank on the 600-mile front line in Ukraine, whether Russian or Ukrainian, is vulnerable to artillery strikes, drones and mines. Especially mines. One open question is the tanks’ habitability. After losing a thousand of its best tanks in the first few months of its now-22-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to ramp up production of new tanks, the Kremlin frantically pulled out of storage hundreds of T-62s and speeded them to the front line in southern Ukraine. In the fall of 2022, counterattacking Ukrainian brigades destroyed dozens of these un-upgraded T-62s, and captured dozens more.…
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An upgraded Russian T-62 tank. Social media capture More Russian T-62 tanks are showing up along the front line in Ukraine with add-on armor and other enhancements—modern sights and mine-clearing plows, for example. A video that circulated on social media last week depicts a T-62 with explosive reactive armor blocks, an anti-drone cage and front-mounted mine-plows. The 60-year-old, but upgraded, tank reportedly belongs to one of the Russian brigades and regiments deployed around the ruins of Marinka in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The up-armored, mine-clearing T-62 showed up on social media just a few days after photos appeared online depicting one of the most upgraded T-62s. This variant of the four-person, 42-ton tank has reactive armor that technicians apparently borrowed from a modern T-90 tank, plus a modern-ish 1PN96MT-02 gunner’s sight for its 115-millimeter main gun. If there’s a downside to these add-ons, it’s that the T-62s all apparently still have their original 620-horsepower diesel engines, which produce much less power than a modern tank engine produces. An improved T-62 also is a heavier and slower T-62. It’s obvious why the Russian army in Ukraine is heaping armor and mine-clearing gear onto its aging T-62s, even at the cost of the tanks’ mobility. Every tank on the 600-mile front line in Ukraine, whether Russian or Ukrainian, is vulnerable to artillery strikes, drones and mines. Especially mines. One open question is the tanks’ habitability. After losing a thousand of its best tanks in the first few months of its now-22-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to ramp up production of new tanks, the Kremlin frantically pulled out of storage hundreds of T-62s and speeded them to the front line in southern Ukraine. In the fall of 2022, counterattacking Ukrainian brigades destroyed dozens of these un-upgraded T-62s, and captured dozens more.…
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