“They make for an inefficient form of artillery,” Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds explained in a recent study for the Royal United Services Institute in London. Since their aiming recticles are calibrated for direct fire out to a range of a few thousand yards, they lack accuracy over longer ranges. Used correctly, the old tanks are a firepower expedient. But as a mobile howitzer, it can lob shells out to a distance of a mile or two and change firing positions under its own power.Ī T-54 or T-55 has a less powerful rifled 100-millimeter gun and thinner armor, but it too can work as mobile artillery. A T-62 wouldn’t last long in a direct fight with, say, a modernized Ukrainian T-64BV.
Their night-sights require an infrared spotlight that gives away the tank’s position.īut the T-62 does have a reasonably powerful 115-millimeter smoothbore cannon and a hundred millimeters of steel armor. They lack the autoloader that’s been standard on Soviet and Russian tanks since the 1970s. Nine months later this spring, the Russians also began recovering T-55s and T-54s that rolled off the factory floor starting in the mid-1950s.Īs tanks, the T-62, T-55 and T-54 are obsolete.
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