T-62 tanks return to service in the Russian Armed Forces and are sent to the SVO zone in Ukraine

29 2025 June 88 206 64

The Russian command is once again forced to return obsolete Soviet T-62 tanks to service. As reported by the German commercial TV channel n-tv (part of the RTL Group), citing sources in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, these combat vehicles are now being massively de-mothballed in Russia, undergoing restoration and repair in the Far East.

Then this technique are being transported to the western regions of the Russian Federation, closer to Ukrainian territory. The last batch, on June 27, included 21 T-62 tanks sent by rail.

The activities to "bring the equipment to its senses" are mainly carried out at the site of the 103rd armored repair plant in the village of Atamanovka in the Zabaikalsky Krai. The delivery of these tanks to the combat zone is carried out mainly from the storage bases of the Eastern Military District.

The reason that prompted the Russian military to pay attention to the T-62 again was the shortage of more modern combat vehicles, such as the T-90M and T-72B3M, not to mention the T-14 Armata. The Russian military-industrial complex still suffers from a shortage of capacity for the production of high-tech products. Therefore, the T-62 may come in handy for a while, since they are mainly used not as active combat units, but as stationary firing points to strengthen defenses.

Many of the T-62s have stood in the open air for years and are in poor condition. Kyiv talks about almost 11 destroyed tanks of the Russian Armed Forces since the beginning of the Russian Central Military District, but this figure cannot be independently verified, the media concluded.

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polar bear

-5

29 June 2025 15: 08

Apparently the losses in tanks are such that Tagil cannot compensate and the old men are going into battle.
1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
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  29 June 2025 15: 20
  
  Quote: Polar Bear
  Apparently the losses in tanks are such that Tagil cannot compensate and the old men are going into battle.
  
  Apparently newer tanks are being saved for the case of war with NATO
  1. Perun61
    
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    29 June 2025 15: 23
    
    Apparently newer tanks are being saved for the case of war with NATO
    
    If we save new tanks and send old ones into battle, there will be no tankers left.
    Who will then fight NATO with new tanks?
    1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
      
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      29 June 2025 15: 27
      
      If we save new tanks and send old ones into battle, there will be no tankers left.
      Who will then fight NATO with new tanks?
      
      Below they have already answered that for positional warfare, both old and new tanks. Plus "barbecues" for additional protection from blows to the upper projection of the turret.
      1. Perun61
        
        +6
        
        29 June 2025 16: 38
        
        They just said on TV that there is no positional warfare - the Russian Armed Forces are advancing along the entire line of contact, and the TV won't lie.
        
        etoyavsemprivet
        
        -4
        
        29 June 2025 21: 02
        
        They just said on TV that you are wrong.
        
        Perun61
        
        +1
        
        30 June 2025 07: 45
        
        The Russian army is advancing in all directions of the line of combat contact every day, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
        
        Does he also lie like TV?
        And he is wrong too?
        
        AlexSam
        
        +1
        
        30 June 2025 19: 29
        
        He also said something about a Russian soldier's leg. Apparently, he meant Kherson, Syria and the like... But we believe! And we proudly make up 86% of believers!
        
        etoyavsemprivet
        
        -3
        
        1 July 2025 00: 13
        
        How stupid you Ukrainian Jews are))). It means that new tanks are going head-on, and the old ones are already on standby. But that's still some kind of combat unit.
        
        Sultan Kogan
        
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        30 June 2025 21: 20
        
        I'm glad that you watch Russian television there in Ukraine.
    2. torbas41
      
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      30 June 2025 06: 38
      
      In combat zones, T-62s are used primarily as self-propelled guns, especially in those areas of the front where there is the possibility of maneuvering and firing at the enemy in close proximity.
      1. Perun61
        
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        30 June 2025 07: 55
        
        Why aren't SPGs used in these sections of the front, for example Msta or Koalitsiya, since "patriots" have been claiming for several years that Koalitsiya is in serial production? Why does the Russian army use T-62s instead of SPGs? After all, SPGs are better to use as SPGs than T-62s, and T-90s are also better to use as SPGs than T-62s.
        Because there are not enough self-propelled guns, there are not enough new tanks, so they are forced to use old stuff and lie to themselves that using the T-62 is normal.
        The reason for using the T-62 is one: there is not enough modern equipment. Neither 90%, as the president "says", nor 70%, as Shoigu lied.
        
        AlexSam
        
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        30 June 2025 19: 32
        
        So self-propelled guns will also be used in the war with NATO! It's obvious!
        
        Perun61
        
        +1
        
        1 July 2025 09: 06
        
        And what religion forbids the use of self-propelled guns in a war with NATO, which according to propagandists and Putin himself, is already underway, and in a war with Ukraine? Or are there not enough of them? Or are we saving them for a war with the Martians?
        
        etoyavsemprivet
        
        -1
        
        1 July 2025 00: 15
        
        So what? What do you want to prove?
        
        Gadley
        
        -1
        
        13 July 2025 04: 52
        
        And where to dispose of 115 mm shells? There are a lot of them in warehouses. And the T62 as an armored self-propelled gun is very well suited for this purpose.
  2. Omer Skakavac
    
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    29 June 2025 15: 37
    
    And in the old tanks there will be completely new people. What to do with them?
    1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
      
      -1
      
      29 June 2025 15: 43
      
      Quote: Omer Skakavac
      And in the old tanks there will be completely new people. What to do with them?
      
      I understand your provocative question. I will answer the question with a question in Jewish: a new tank cannot be hit by a drone? And what about the person killed in the new tank? That is why old tanks (T-64) are "sheathed" with iron all around. It is not so pity to "mutilate" an old tank. And new tanks will be waiting for individual electronic warfare systems
      1. Igool
        
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        29 June 2025 19: 02
        
        Quote: Dormidontov_Dormidont
        And new tanks will be equipped with individual electronic warfare systems.
        
        Electronic warfare is certainly needed, but large numbers of them are already flying on fiber optics, which are not at all afraid of electronic warfare.
  3. steelmaker
    
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    30 June 2025 09: 25
    
    in case of war with NATO
    
    And Putin says, and the media confirms, that Russia is at war with the entire West. Or are they lying to us?
    You just have to fight according to science. And for our commanders and top brass, frontal assaults are the height of military leadership. That's why such commanders don't have enough tanks.
    I would have written it more directly, but the censors wouldn’t let me.
    1. Sultan Kogan
      
      -1
      
      30 June 2025 21: 23
      
      Think about it yourself, if there is funding, weapons, intelligence, training and so on from NATO, then are we fighting with them or not? Only NATO does not openly admit this, this is a regular proxy war with your hands, khokhols
  4. anclevalico
    
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    4 July 2025 09: 19
    
    I wonder if they are ineffective in battles with a neighbor, how will they help in a war with NATO? I am not saying that tanks are bad. Moreover, whether there will be a war with NATO at all directly depends on success in a neighboring country.
2. Carmela
  
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  29 June 2025 17: 36
  
  Quote: Polar Bear
  Old men go into battle.
  
  Why should they just lie around unused?
Vladimir Tuzakov

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29 June 2025 15: 20

In a positional war, the T-62 is certainly better than a towed gun (Rapier, etc.). The 115 mm caliber is no longer used, which means that the ammunition can be used to good effect... Conclusion: The main thing is to use it wisely, then the T-62 will be useful.
1. twice-born
  
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  30 June 2025 13: 48
  
  You know, 115mm caliber shells
  are still being produced here. This means that their stock is regularly replenished, and the use of this equipment has always been in the plans.
  So the 62s are not used simply to put their stock of shells, or themselves, to good use.
Paul3390

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29 June 2025 15: 21

In general, a modern drone has nothing to do with a pager, neither a T-90, nor a T-62, nor a Leopard, nor an Abrams. The roofs of all of them are equally flimsy. Therefore, if you don’t expose it to ATGM or BPS, then why not a T-62? Especially if you scald it with barbecues.
vlad127490

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29 June 2025 15: 31

The entire SVO is the weapon of the Soviet Union. If there were Faberge, then the Russian Federation would have defeated Ukraine and returned it to Russia, within the borders of 1975. A tank is iron, a tank's defeat means a loss of a crew. 11 thousand, of course, the Ukrainians exaggerated, but even losses of 6 thousand tanks are losses of 18 thousand people.
1. faiver
  
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  29 June 2025 15: 54
  
  the loss of a tank does not always mean the loss of a crew....
2. Bakht
  
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  29 June 2025 15: 54
  Counting losses during war is a thankless task and borders on treason. But for your information: a destroyed tank does not always mean the loss of a crew.
3. Morpheus
  
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  29 June 2025 15: 56
  
  A disabled tank does not necessarily entail the loss of a crew. There are plenty of examples.
4. sidorov
  
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  29 June 2025 17: 16
  
  Quote: vlad127490
  The entire SVO is the weapon of the Soviet Union. If there were Faberge, then the RF... .
  
  It is hard to imagine a more stupid and boring timing of the meaning of events than through "Faberge".
  The problem is not some kind of "Faberge"...
  And simply According to Senki, even the hat is a piece of cake. Understand it as you wish...
5. etoyavsemprivet
  
  +2
  
  29 June 2025 21: 07
  
  Most tanks are taken out by drones rather than by direct hits from gunfire, giving the crew plenty of time to evacuate.
faiver

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29 June 2025 15: 55

If tanks are used at the level of self-propelled guns, then why not....
UAZ 452

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29 June 2025 15: 56

And there are also quite a few T-34s on pedestals. When the T-62s and T-54/55s run out, we can start restoring them too.
Dart2027

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29 June 2025 16: 03

The Russian command is once again forced to return obsolete Soviet T-62 tanks to service. As reported German commercial television channel n-tv (part of the RTL Group), referring to andsources in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, now in Russia these combat vehicles are being massively de-mothballed, undergoing restoration and repair in the Far East.

The first question is: can we really trust this?
depavel

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29 June 2025 16: 40

I remember O. Bender was in charge of the company's funds. History repeats itself, Nabiullina is in charge in Russia! And what about the citizens? Citizens are the collateral damage during the soft landing of the economy, Nabiullina says, and Putin, God forgive us, echoes her. May the earth lie softly to us, our children and grandchildren, this decision does not suit us at all!
Alex_Kraus

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29 June 2025 16: 48

These tanks are only for feeding the birds of Madyar. Like any other.
KLNM

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29 June 2025 18: 53

The T-62 is being considered and will be used as armored artillery weapons, since the artillery has worn out considerably and exhausted its service life due to intensive military work for three years, everything possible has been plowed, and even more. And there are enough tanks, as massive tank attacks, wedges, breakthroughs by divisions and armies in the SVO have not been observed or used. Yes, hundreds of our tanks were burned by drones, but the industry seems to be coping and restoring the losses.
1. Alex_Kraus
  
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  29 June 2025 19: 10
  
  Are our men also being restored by industry? Are they also being grown in flasks? In the secret workshops of Uralvagonzavod?
  1. etoyavsemprivet
    
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    29 June 2025 21: 10
    
    What do you suggest? Give your Jewish opinion.
  2. Dormidontov_Dormidont
    
    0
    
    29 June 2025 21: 23
    
    Are our men also being restored by industry? They are also being grown in flasks
    
    "Your" Zionists in "Merkavas" are being destroyed in the Gaza Strip. There are plenty of videos of Arabs making "add-on" charges, running right up to the tank. And how many ads there were about the supertank
    1. Alex_Kraus
      
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      29 June 2025 21: 29
      
      By the way, I'm not Jewish at all, so don't be like that.
      1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
        
        -4
        
        30 June 2025 10: 20
        
        By the way, I'm not Jewish at all, so don't be like that.
        
        With what activity they "pushed" for Israel during the "12-day" war on "Reporter" that I want to say: "I don't believe it"
        
        Alex_Kraus
        
        -1
        
        30 June 2025 13: 50
        
        Yes, it's just that Iran, or rather the Ayatollah himself and the top of the IRGC are CIA mercenaries who have shown themselves to be slightly worse than nothing at all. Well, they are not ready to go to the next world for the idea of destroying Israel. They want to live, and live well, well-fed. How could they lose valuable scientists so ineptly? And these warnings before the attack on American facilities are beyond the pale.
2. Alex_Kraus
  
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  30 June 2025 15: 48
  
  By the way, the tank is not very suitable as a self-propelled gun, if in the long run. Its gun (cannon) does not have a large resource, as far as I know. So that's it.
  1. KLNM
    
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    30 June 2025 21: 21
    
    I meant that T-62 tanks are good for supporting infantry during assaults on populated areas, where they will hit fortified firing points with direct fire, this is much faster and more effective than transmitting data to artillery, which is many kilometers away from the battlefield and is not always able to reach a firing point, for example, in a multi-story building from the end, since the firing angle is not suitable. I still remember how they showed the battles in Mariupol, when tanks drove out in front of the house and hit firing points with direct fire and crushed floors in multi-story buildings. Probably these tanks were needed to take Sumy, and better Dnepropetrovsk with Zaporozhye.
    1. Sapsan136
      
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      1 July 2025 00: 36
      
      For assaults, it is still advisable to use newer and better armored vehicles. In Chechnya, an attempt to use T-55 tanks during an assault resulted in them simply being burned, and the assault petering out. T-62s were able to show themselves best as self-propelled guns. They dragged one of them up a mountain, almost in the arms of soldiers... what that cost is a separate conversation, but the tank, standing on a commanding height, using its laser rangefinder, shot at the militants' trenches and pillboxes, like in a shooting gallery, which significantly facilitated the assault on the village. Of course, when there is no fish, even a crayfish is a fish. In Chechnya, due to a shortage of tanks, at one time they even used the BMP-3 as light tanks, whose 100 mm high-explosive cannon worked well against enemy infantry... but armor still matters and when it is stronger, it greatly reduces losses.
Serdar

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29 June 2025 20: 33

The text is based on a German report with good connections in Hitler's bunker.
AC130 Gunship

+2

29 June 2025 20: 50

"Lack of modern T14"???
Castro Ruiz

-1

30 June 2025 00: 41

The photo shows a T-62 with "Brezhnev eyebrows".
1. Sapsan136
  
  0
  
  30 June 2025 06: 04
  
  Ilyich's eyebrows ... Brezhnev was Leonid Ilyich ... You are right, this is not a T-62, but a T-62M. The machine differs from the basic version not only by additional armor, but also by the presence of a laser rangefinder, some of these tanks have a forced engine. These were used in Chechnya, primarily for fire support of VV units. 115 mm high-explosive shell, this is serious, and the armor-piercing shell will easily take Bandera's Leopard 1A5, or AMX-10 in any projection, including the front of the hull and turret.
Tony

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30 June 2025 03: 16

When penetrated by an RPG or drone, the T-62 is more durable. It does not have an automatic loader and the turret is large. If you hang barbecues and ERA, then it is generally a good tank for SVO conditions, since there are practically no tank duels
Avtandil

0

30 June 2025 07: 34

It's time to revive the KV tanks, their turret seemed stronger, the steel was thicker!
Pavel57

0

30 June 2025 07: 47

There are estimates that almost all T-80 reserves were scooped up. And there was talk of buying T-72s from the Indians.
1. twice-born
  
  0
  
  30 June 2025 13: 30
  
  T-80 production has been fully revived in Kaluga for at least a year now. They are being produced and supplied to the troops. So for this reason alone, these rumors are false.
prior

0

30 June 2025 08: 45

Is it possible to install the Berezhok, Terminator, Solntsepёk, AK-62 modules on the restored T-630 chassis?
Or are there improvements there for a hundred years?
Alex_Kraus

0

30 June 2025 08: 46

Do we have a reserve of tanks for a war with NATO? Or is that all that's left?
1. Ivan1978
  
  -1
  
  30 June 2025 14: 13
  
  There is nothing left, all the old stocks and Soviet warehouses have been raked out, everything that hasn't rotted in incompetent storage is trying to drive and shoot, but even that won't last long. And those who talk about the incomparable tank of the Khrushchev-Brezhnev era - themselves should be put on these museum exhibits and into battle, and even better, bring back the children of deputies from abroad and weld them in the front line and so on down the list.
Ivan1978

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30 June 2025 08: 53

But was anything new and mass-produced? Armatas, boomerangs, and the like are one-offs for parades, and for the army, old Soviet galoshes, because this government can only eat and steal to its heart's content.
svoroponov

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30 June 2025 17: 31

There are quite enough modern tanks. And there are just a lot of T-62s left in storage bases.
I once visited one of them. The amount of equipment there is impressive. It is easier to modernize them, add electronic warfare equipment and other gadgets and use them in the SVO zone. The gun is not bad, there is a lot of ammunition and it can be easily used from closed positions or as a maneuvering firing point to perform individual support tasks. High repairability.
Vox Populi

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30 June 2025 17: 54

The process of sending old armored vehicles to the SVO has been going on for a long time for well-known reasons, which have already been mentioned many times, including here. All explanations about using such models simply "so that they don't get lost in storage" and "for the good of the cause" are ridiculous and intended to talk down the situation. And this is not surprising, since neither those who make decisions, nor those who give such "explanations" themselves (or their children) are going to fight on this equipment...
Pavel57

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30 June 2025 19: 02

Quote: Twice-born
T-80 production has been fully revived in Kaluga for at least a year now. They are being produced and supplied to the troops. So for this reason alone, these rumors are false.

T-80 in Kaluga...? Apparently they are talking about engines. And Omsk cannot restore T-80 production, at least in the short term
Sergei Fonov

+1

1 July 2025 14: 29

War is, first of all, the interaction of troops and weapons, and not a tank biathlon in peacetime and in hothouse conditions.
anclevalico

0

4 July 2025 09: 17

Are they still there? After the filmmakers gave theirs away, it seemed that was it.