The Quest for a Slightly Better Tank | T-62 Medium Tank Part I with Tankograd

In December 1960, the first M60 tanks arrived in the 3rd Armored Division of the U.S Army in Germany. In early January 1961, this information was passed on to Marshal Vasily Chuikov, Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces, Deputy Minister of Defense, and famed commander of the Soviet defense of Stalingrad. The Soviet Army had just concluded its future medium tank programme in failure, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev had hamstrung the development of conventional tanks in favor of new, but immature space-age missile technology.
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Narrated by Mechakeller Russel
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[@Hyper_1989]

Tankograd my beloved ❤

[@rkadi6540]

The writer probably would update the T-72, T-80, BMP-3 after the ukraine war, or add T-90 and other SPH to the blog

19:18 "indicated his tacid approval" :) That is a nice way of describing what he is sometimes reported to have said :)

[@milorads98]

What is it? What did he say? 😅

@milorads98 I think the story is that upon hearing that NATO would have a bigger gun then "his" new 100 mm gun, he demanded a 115 mm gun. When the guys briefing him protested he is said to have answered " I don't care if you have to strap it to a pig, but get me that gun" or something to that effect. That is from memory and maybe he said it a bit differently.

[@milorads98]

@ That's actually nice, I was expecting something more vulgar 😅

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

I like to point out the Soviets overreacted a bit when seeing the M60A1 in Europe. The M60 with its 105mm can penetrate the T-55 at 1800m but with the BR-412D could just about penetrate the M60 at about 1500m. Slightly shorter but the difference should be minimal in practice. And in 1967 with HVAPDS, the T-55 would be able to kill M60s at ranges of 2km reliably. So the T-55 would be a match for the M60 at least as far as stand off ranges are concerned. The T-62 with its 115mm APFSDS would outmatch all but the Chieftain. This is ofc ignoring soft factors but given the sheer numbers of T-55s and T-62s, let alone shortly after the T-64, NATO was far far behind.

[@K.Marx48]

The T-62 was able to kill chieftains in the Iran Iraq war

[@Bay_den_vu_tru]

Yeah but Soviet don't havr any ideas how M60 can do in a battle

[@bilalsadiq1450]

​@@K.Marx48Any tank can technically kill any other tank, even frontally. It all depends on the crew training, support assets etc.

[@jepstein3207]

​@@bilalsadiq1450bro it's the iraqis, you just proved his point

[@savasolarov8424]

I enjoyed the way the presentation was structured. Good upload!, subscribed, liked.

[@derrickstorm6976]

Devine intervention in the Soviet Union? That's heresy!

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Communism is just another religion that worships psychopaths.

[@Sleexb]

divine intervention by marx and lenin obviously, who now turn their gaze away from the blasted neo-tsarist state

[@mark009vn]

there is only one person who is god in the soviet union, and he isn't the Christian one.

[@SoFZlodei24]

Not heresy but counter-revolution

[@slimdiddyd]

Stalin intervened.

[@Sleexb]

12:06 rare Khrushchev W

[@damaunimiller1083]

I love the T-62, I even have a Tamiya Model. Can the next vid be the T-62M1? If not, I completely understand.

[@StressBall5]

@@obsidianjane4413 aswell as extensive service history and potentially export history

[@jejepangetsu3133]

Same to me, I liked t-62 when I read about the Yom Kippur war where Egypt deployed their t-62s

[@AreYouFinnished]

Awesome narration

[@markopantelic3088]

Great Video!

[@paulhickie6974]

Thanks enjoyed it 😊.

[@ivan5595]

My favorite looking tank

[@shellshockedgerman3947]

sorry if this is off-topic, but are you not going to upload anymore gunkas?

[@Melkor54]

excellent

[@ddraig1957]

Amazing amount of information. Whatever faults the T62 might have had,it's smooth bore gun was real game changer,and every modern MBT now has a smooth bore main armament.

[@sterneno1107]

Exept for the Challenger 2, which has a 120mm rifled gun

[@ddraig1957]

@sterneno1107 It did have a rifled gun but the Challenger 3 will have a smooth bore gun

[@daviddevries8242]

@@ddraig1957 They were planning to upgrade the challenger II as well.

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

The 115mm APFSDS gave it enough stand off range to safely kill any NATO tank except for the Chieftain and AMX-30. With how many were produced, it was not just revolutionary, it was highly capable

[@levilastun829]

​@@neurofiedyamato8763it should be mentioned that this performance was achieved with a steel rod, tungsten tip APFSDS round. And only later, they designed the 3BM-28 and 3BM-36, which use depleted uranium rods. Apparently the Russians designed a new 3BM-21M round, which uses the tungsten alloy rod from the 3BM-60 svinets-2 inside a 115mm projectile. But it's unknown if it actually entered production

[@F1avorF1av]

I really love your content. It would be awesome if you made a video on one of my favorite tanks, the t64. I think it would be interesting due to its innovations

[@K.Marx48]

A classic tank, love it

[@Riper1403]

The most important difference between T62 and T64.72 is the absence of an automatic loader. Therefore, there are four crew members in T62, and three crew members in T72, T80, T90

[@legio-IV-Cataphract]

The tank that should have replace the m3 Stuart in the mexican military

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

Are we seriously still using Stuarts? Though if Mexico tried to buy T-62's, the US may have cried about it.

[@legio-IV-Cataphract]

@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 No, they got replaced by the panhard ERC 90, and mexico have already purchased russian gear like rpg-29,mil mi-17, and btr-60

[@newerty1294]

T-62 my beloved

[@biddyboy1570]

12:23 - Listen comrade, I'm going to fire the gun and I need you to be the recoil mechanism. Alright?

[@tongqualin]

you should also pointed out that the Obj.165 entered service as T-62A to proof Wargaming was actually...right

[@WildBillCox13]

Pronouncing Xrushchev with the "dirty H" is a pleasure to hear. Everyone these days (including Mister Putin) uses the hard "K".

[@Br1cht]

Yeah, Judeo-Russian names can be tricky.

[@WildBillCox13]

Watching ATG crew trying to act as recoil dampeners, the gunner leaning back to save his head when the gun fired, the word that pops into my mind is Unforgiving. They had to put that high energy weapon on a vehicle or it would kill its crews.

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

They're not acting as recoil dampeners, they're just putting pressure on the trail legs so that they dig into the ground.

[@WildBillCox13]

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT Thanks for the correction.

[@ThePinkus]

12:25 the notion that You could use people to take the recoil of a high energy anti tank gun...

[@boslittman8190]

@@obsidianjane4413 Anyone ells notises that those soldiers firing that anti-tank guns were not soviet but east german

[@sidgar1]

People were adaptable and expendable assets in their eyes. Not surprising.

[@rat_god69]

They’re just pushing on those legs to make sure they dig into the ground properly

[@LawatheMEid]

How many T-62 tanks were in syrian and egyptian armies during 1973 war? Or what was the ratio between the t-55 and t-62?!

[@LEGOBubuS]

❤❤❤

[@comradeweismann6947]

Comments for the Algorithm

[@atanasijesimic4651]

o7

[@vasopel]

15:11 a 155mm gun? a mistake?

[@levilastun829]

Probably, from what I know the Soviets never designed a 155mm gun, they prefered a 152mm caliber

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

Narrator mispronounced 115.

[@biddyboy1570]

2:04 - Shall we stabilise the gun? Nuh can't be bothered.

[@pavelalexe9254]

Gun is stabilised, its just that the travel lock is on. It protects the entire system from wear.

[@trevortaylor5501]

Artemeovsk...

[@Darth_Barnaby]

LETS GOOOOOO! Next stop, Chasiv Yar

[@destroyerarmor2846]

T-62 was better than M-48 variants

[@TheArklyte]

​@@AKUJIVALDOwas it better then M60 though?

[@quan-uo5ws]

@@TheArklyte it was better than the early variants.

[@landerviguera9575]

A very topical video, since the Russians are using them in Ukraine.

[@Darth_Barnaby]

Yeah, it truely is a timeless classic! The russians are also using them along with T55's now, as SP artillery. Who would have thought that they still had a place on a modern battlefield

[@zopEnglandzip]

​@@Darth_Barnaby it's strange calling it the modern battlefield, it has some very modern elements but also very antiquated elements. Maybe any armoured vehicle has a place in internal security behind lines as a mobile pillbox but as fire support it is surly a less than ideal compromise.

[@saucyinnit8799]

​@@Darth_Barnaby a lot of Nations use T-55s. Mostly 3rd world but they are still capable

[@Darth_Barnaby]

​@@saucyinnit8799 Yeah if your opponent is only armed with assult rifles, any tank will do (thats why even the T-34 is still used some places). A 100mm is still a 100mm, and itll do just fine

[@saucyinnit8799]

@@Darth_Barnaby never underestimate a tank. It was made to kill. And it certanly can kill.

[@lama9940]

Tank factory №183 never returned to Kharkov. A new factory №75 was built in Kharkov in the old place. People from Stalingrad and other automobile factories worked there. A small part of the staff returned to Kharkov from Ural. Before the appearance of the T-64 in mass production, factory №75 was subordinate to factory №183.

[@davey7452]

Its going to be interesting seeing what a T-62 will do against a leopard, a challenger and an abrams.

[@joshuabonilla3491]

Eh I think people don't relize how little tank on tank action happens. ATGMs and arty is more likely gonna be the biggest tank killers

[@gunner678]

Lol a few years later the Israelis developed the Tiran 1, a better T55 with a 105 gun.

[@amandastevenson4948]

It's all about the ongoing process of armour penetration