"These T-55 tanks look pretty good."

The next day, the sky cleared, and the group came to the open space outside the Malyshev factory, where the tanks were parked.

Yesterday, this matter had already been discussed, scrap iron prices, and some rags were cleared for them, so today Qin Zhenhua and the others couldn't wait to come to the site where the tanks were stored.

I saw it from the train that day, the venue was full of tanks, which made people look extremely sighing, this is the wealth, so many tanks, they were actually put here and scrapped directly, and now, walking over to see it in person, Qin Zhenhua's tone was full of joy.

It's in tatters.

At this time, he was standing next to a tank, this tank had five pairs of load-bearing wheels, a hemispherical tortoiseshell-like turret, as long as he looked at it, it was easy to attribute it to the T-55 series of tanks, even Qin Zhenhua personally said the name of T-55.

However, in fact, Qin Zhenhua was able to recognize it at first glance, this is not the T-55, but the second-generation post-war tank of the Soviets, the T-62!

Speaking of the birth of this tank, it is also embarrassing.

In 1958, the Soviet Union came up with the T-12 towed 100-mm smoothbore anti-tank gun, the performance of the gun was good, after all, it had begun to overshoot the smoothbore gun, and the top brass were satisfied, but the tank designers were not satisfied? After all? The caliber is too small, 100 mm? What can you do?

At the time? Kartsev argued on the basis of reason and finally let the top brass retract the decision? A compromise was made: instead of developing a tank equipped with the T-12 gun, a new smoothbore gun adapted to the tank armament was developed on the basis of the T-12 gun.

Kartsev seized the opportunity? Revise the "165 Project" plan you have at hand? Came up with Project 166, the core of which is to replace the 100mm rifled gun with a 115mm smoothbore gun, which is still based on the chassis of the T-55 tank? Plus the turret of "Project 140"? And just like that, a tank was rubbed out.

Speaking of Kartsev, most people associate him with the T-72, but instead obscure the light of the T-62.

A year later, a prototype of Project 166 has been built? After all, it's old wine in a new bottle, and it's very fast? So, "Project 166" was officially finalized as the T-62 main battle tank? Start of production.

However, there are also a lot of problems? This 166 project? As a matter of fact? In the eyes of the higher-ups, it is nothing more than a transitional product, and for them, what is even more expected is the 432 project in Kharkov, that is, the prototype of the T-64 tank.

In order to help the T-64 tank, the relevant departments have been delaying the review and approval of the technical structure documents for the serial production of the T-62 tank, so that the T-64 tank can buy time.

However, at this time, a big problem went wrong, they got an M60A1 tank, this tank, equipped with the standard 105 mm tank gun of the West, the Soviets tested this tank gun, and it turned out to be powerful!

At this time, it finally couldn't be dragged on, the T-64 was still in difficult labor, and the T-62 tank was already in the stage of being ready to be put into production at any time, and the then commander-in-chief of the army scolded the tank marshal for a bloody sprinkler, what tank was used to deal with the M60?

As a result, the previous delay was quickly ended, and Nizhny Tagil began to build T-62 tanks at the speed of fire, and by 1961, the first T-62 tanks had been finalized and equipped with troops.

However, the T-62 tank was only a temporary product using the chassis of the T-55 and a 115-mm tank gun, and in the minds of the Soviet tank crews, this was only a transitional model, and they were expecting a real third-generation tank T-64.

As a result, the T-64 tank repeatedly jumped tickets, the automatic loader was immature, and the engine was also frequent, so the T-62 tank, which was only a transitional model in the original plan, had to continue production.

Even if the T-64 tank endured humiliation and hurriedly finalized the equipment of the troops, but, due to its complex technology and low reliability, the T-62 tank had to continue to produce, and finally became the main force of the Soviet Union's front-line tank troops, for example, in 1973, the Soviet Union in Germany's armored cluster, 75% were T-62, and in more than ten years of production, the number of T-62 tanks was as high as 20,000, becoming the second only product of the T-55 tank. It ranks second in the world in terms of production, of which more than 14,000 are used by the Soviets themselves.

Fortunately, the T-64, T-72, T-80, these tanks are constantly maturing, and so far, the T-62 tank has helped the Soviet tank forces through the most difficult period, and now they have retired.

The first batch in the early days has begun to be decommissioned, and now, standing in this tank cemetery, is the T-62 tank, facing them, Qin Zhenhua's mood is even more agitated, he is naturally familiar with this tank, because he has seen it more than once, and his father has an indissoluble bond with this tank.

For a country, the equipment of the army, the model should be as few as possible, so as to facilitate logistics supply, the Soviets equipped the T-62 with 115 mm guns, originally only as an intermediate transition, but accidentally transitioned into the main force.

The big countries in the East did not take this road, 100 mm tank guns, gradually eliminated, 105 mm guns to improve the 59 series of tanks, 125 mm guns equipped with advanced tanks, has become a mainstream trend, this 115 mm caliber, in the East will not appear, but back then, the first 100 mm smoothbore gun of the East Power, in fact, is borrowed from the technology of the T-62 tank tank gun, even the shell, is also imitation.

Just in the middle of his thoughts, Dulaba said with some embarrassment: "This, Director Qin is wrong, although it is very similar to the T-55 tank, it is not the T-55, it is the T-62 tank." ”

Laymen, you may not be able to tell the difference, after all, the chassis is different, but the gap in the barrel can always be seen, this distance is close enough.

"It's the T-55." Qin Zhenhua said: "This batch of T-55 tanks, the condition is not bad, I think, the price can be mentioned, 20,000 units, how about it?" ”

Qin Zhenhua actually took the initiative to increase the price! If it was the price of scrap iron, one would be only 10,000, and now it is actually 20,000! There are fifty cars here, and if you sell these scrap irons, you can sell them for a million!

Qin Zhenhua is now referring to the deer as a horse, if you want to buy the T-62, it will definitely not work, after all, the performance of this tank has not been completely outdated, and they can't report it when they report the accounts with the superiors, now, if this batch of T-62 is said to be sold as a T-55, then there will be no problem.

Duraba just frowned, then nodded, "That's right, it's the T-55."