2023年4月1日 · Roots of the T-62 Surviving Object 140 – Source: Т-62: Убийца Центурионов и Олифантов. The T-55 was the main tank from which most of the T-62’s primary characteristics were derived. However, Object 140 was the tank to which the T-62 owed its essential features, distinguishing it from the T-55.
100 T62 were ordered and shipped until 1975, with apparently more later as still 250 are in service as of 2011. North Korea 500 in total was ordered in two batches (1970 and 1974), delivered until 1978, most probably of Czech manufacture.