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T-62 Main Battle Tank 1965-2005 (New Vanguard)

By Steven J. Zaloga

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2009
ISBN
184603390X, 9781846033902
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17361291 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
52\52
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The Soviet Army hastily developed the T-62 in a struggle to compete against the rapid proliferation of NATO tanks in the 1960s. It was essentially a modification of the widely-manufactured T-55 tank with the addition of a new 115mm gun. Within the USSR itself, the T-62 was quickly superseded, but it was widely exported, becoming a critical component of the Egyptian and Syrian armies in the 1973 Yom Kippur conflict and heavily influenced later designs of the M1 Abrams and Challenger tanks. In the first English-language history of this tank, Steven Zaloga examines the development of the T-62 using detailed combat descriptions to bring to life the operational history of this tank from the deserts of the Sinai to the harsh terrain of Afghanistan.

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