An ex-Russian T-62 in Ukrainian colors. After losing a thousand of its best T-80 and T-72 tanks in Ukraine, the Kremlin early this summer began pulling 50-year-old T-62s out of long-term storage and ...

Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu inspects T-62M tanks. As Russian tank losses in Ukraine exceeded a thousand last summer—that’s nearly a third of the tanks the country went to war with—the ...

World War II era experimentations with the likes of the huge Panzer VIII Maus, a 188-ton monstrosity that never made it past the prototype stage, made one thing quite clear: There's historically been ...

After nearly three years of heavy fighting in Ukraine, the countryside has become a graveyard of military hardware, notably main battle tanks (MBTs). What is unique about the conflict is how the ...

Summary and Key Points: As the Russo-Ukraine War enters its third year, Russia faces an unsustainable loss of tanks, forcing it to redeploy Cold War-era T-62 tanks with additional armor. However, the ...

Introduced in the early 1960s, the Soviet T-62 was the world’s first production tank armed with a smoothbore gun, designed to outmatch NATO armor of the era. Heavier and more powerful than the T-55, ...

The Russian Army has begun deployment of one of the oldest tanks in its stockpile, the T-62 main battle tank. The T-62, which the Soviet Union produced between 1962 and 1973, is poorly armored by ...

T-62 tanks fitted with Berezhok turrets lined up at the Central Logistics Base. (Algerian Ministry of National Defence) Algeria is converting more T-62 main battle tanks into fire-support vehicles, it ...

Quote: "Against the background of the depletion of equipment reserves of the 1970s, the command of the Russian Armed Forces began intensely recommissioning even older models, in particular tanks of ...

Two of the T-62s with Berezhok turrets in the military parade in Algiers on 5 July. (AFP via Getty Images) The Algerian People's National Army (ANP) unveiled the T-62 tanks that it has converted into ...