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ROBERT NABORNEY's avatar

Several points from an old (1975-99) tanker 1) The T62 was about the equal of the base line M60/M60A1. As a matter of fact, it was built because of the M60. " It was accepted into service as a direct reaction to the new American M60 tank, which had been dispatched to the 3rd Armored Division in the USAREUR (U.S Army in Europe) in December 1960" Not the equal of M60A1 RISE/Passive (Reliability Improvement of Selected Equipment - they forgot the lousy heater! - Passive = Image Intensification Sight ("Starlight Scope") or M60A3 TTs (Tank Thermal Sight), which can see at night or reduced visibility without revealing their position 2) The US used the xenon white/ir light searchlights into the 1980's. https://www.liberatedmanuals.com/TM-11-5855-250-12-and-P.pdf. It is long since obsolete. 3) That these vehicles still mount IR equipment indicates to me that they are a) being sent to a training unit b) being sent to a facility to be upgraded with - among other things - more modern fire control systems. 4) non-Upgraded t-62;'s are also known as "targets"

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Erik S's avatar

Old garbage. Like everything Russian.

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