When the Russian army first began running low on modern tanks, just a few months into its wider war on Ukraine, it pulled out of storage hundreds ofDeployed piecemeal by panicky crews, these aging, four-person tanks with their 115-millimeter main guns and crude optics did next to nothing to slow the Ukrainians when they counterattacked in the south late last summer..
The BMPT-62 isn’t just an expedient—a way for Ukrainian forces to make good use of captured T-62s and excess BMP-2 turrets. It actually fits a special niche. A BMPT-62 by contrast restores the protection but trades away the space. It can lend its firepower to the infantry, butlend them a ride. It’s not for no reason that the Russian army, the main user of BMPTs, tends to deploy the vehicles for close urban fighting, where protection trumps mobility.BMPT Terminator