He has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites with over 3,200 published pieces over a twenty-year career in journalism. The T-62 is a truly antiquated piece of hardware that was largely retired from the Soviet arsenal and is only now being returned to service to bolster Russia’s tank numbers.Īs a result of the decision to send these old tanks to a new fight, we’ll likely continue to see similar vehicles of burning hulks spewn across the fields of Ukraine.Ī Senior Editor for 19FortyFive, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer. Though newer than the T-72, the T-80 is considered to be a far more complicated machine that is harder to manufacture and even harder to service in the field.
As a result, Russia has been forced to employ its newly-mobilized tank battalions with obsolete T-62 and T-80B MBTs and now older T-54 and T-55 tanks.
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