T-62 over powered

[RHYS4190]

I was on dragon fly my squad Fired 2- 4 tandems hats at a t-62, and it was not destroyed,

then to add insult to injury we then when't after the tank with a challenger flaked it rare and shot it right in the rear armour, it then turned around and tracked are challenger with one shot.


I don't know WHAT the hell was going on????!, but i think stat of the art anti tank weapon should work against 1960 technology.

come to think of it iv not seen one of these Russian T-62 or what ever the hell they are destroyed yet it like the shell just bounce right off them.

Can you please have a look at them.

[dtacs]

I was on dragon fly my squad Fired 2- 4 tandems hats at a t-62, and it was not destroyed,

Impossible, the Militia don't get the Tandem warhead the Russians get?

You're thinking of that new yellow-coloured RPG I think?

[ytman]

Impossible, the Militia don't get the Tandem warhead the Russians get?

You're thinking of that new yellow-coloured RPG I think?

The new 'conventional' RPG is the same as the old one. It is not a Tandem.

Such RPG's have, IRL, little to no effect on armor. A Challenger took upwards of 72 in Iraq.

[nedlands1]

I was on dragon fly my squad Fired 2- 4 tandems hats at a t-62, and it was not destroyed,

then to add insult to injury we then when't after the tank with a challenger flaked it rare and shot it right in the rear armour, it then turned around and tracked are challenger with one shot.


I don't know WHAT the hell was going on????!, but i think stat of the art anti tank weapon should work against 1960 technology.

come to think of it iv not seen one of these Russian T-62 or what ever the hell they are destroyed yet it like the shell just bounce right off them.

Can you please have a look at them.

It was actually 4-5 RPG's (yellow ones as dtacs said) + 1-2 NLAW's to the front + tank shell to the rear. The Challenger 2 somehow got it's track knocked out from one shot for the T-62 to add insult to the injury.

EDIT: To clarify we were all playing on the British.

[USMCMIDN]

The new 'conventional' RPG is the same as the old one. It is not a Tandem.

Such RPG's have, IRL, little to no effect on armor. A Challenger took upwards of 72 in Iraq.

Source? That is a bit much...

[ytman]

Source? That is a bit much...

I wish I could find the article. It was about a supposed shift in the British army to acquire more Air Assets (Attack Helicopters) and one person interviewed argued that MBT's have incredible protection when compared to a Helicopter.

I believe it was mentioned that it was even in Al-Basrah.

Perhaps, it wasn't all at once but over the whole campaign.

[joethepro36]

Source? That is a bit much...

Do you doubt the might of British engineering? We've been building tanks long before anyone else.

"Apaches are not heavily armoured and it takes just one rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) to bring one down. Compare that with one British Challenger near Basra which survived being hit by 70 RPGs."

BBC NEWS | UK | Tanks and artillery 'face MoD axe'


But yes, I find the T-62 in good hands is equal to a challenger which is perculiar at best.

[Excavus]

Do you doubt the might of British engineering? We've been building tanks long before anyone else.

"Apaches are not heavily armoured and it takes just one rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) to bring one down. Compare that with one British Challenger near Basra which survived being hit by 70 RPGs."

BBC NEWS | UK | Tanks and artillery 'face MoD axe'


But yes, I find the T-62 in good hands is equal to a challenger which is perculiar at best.

An experienced crew can't hold up against 5 RPG shots, 2 NLAW shots, and an AP shell to the ***. That would be a dead tank. Sorry, but experience is not equal to armor.

[joethepro36]

My point was that the T-62 is too powerful...

[myles]

Dosent the challenger have better aromour than the t-62 in real life?

[PinkFloyd-]

It was actually 4-5 RPG's (yellow ones as dtacs said) + 1-2 NLAW's to the front + tank shell to the rear. The Challenger 2 somehow got it's track knocked out from one shot for the T-62 to add insult to the injury.

EDIT: To clarify we were all playing on the British.

We were in the tanks, there were 2 logistic trucks behind us with both repair crates out. As for the challenger tracking, both of our tanks fired at the same time, thus tracking you.

As for the OP nonsense, they're not.

[joethepro36]

Dosent the challenger have better aromour than the t-62 in real life?

It has armour that outclasses it by several generations. I would not be surprised if a standard RPG could penetrate a T-62 hull while a challenger (like other modern tanks) is essentially immune to RPGs unless they are of a modern, tandem varient. The RPG-29 is one of the few weapons that has ever penetrated a challengers armour, not surprising when the -29 is an absolute beast compared to the -7.

The challenger can also stand up to somewhat dated ATGMs like the MILAN (source on request) and still remain unpenetrated, mainly because it has one of the best (if not the best) designed armour in the world. Course that comes at an expensive price, nearly twice that of an abrams.

But in short, yes the challenger has much better armour than a t-62.


Edit: And ah so the T-62's were getting repaired while there also being two of them. Unsurprising then, but I still have problems with a one-on-one matchup being rather close.

[Smiddey723]

Challenger 2 had already been used in peacekeeping missions and exercises before but its first combat use came in March 2003 during the invasion of Iraq. 7th Armoured Brigade, part of 1st Armoured Division, was in action with 120 Challenger 2s around Basra. The tanks saw extensive use during the siege of Basra, providing fire support to the British forces. The tank's availability was excellent and the problems that were identified during the large Saif Sareea II exercise, which took place eighteen months earlier, were solved by the issuing of Urgent Operational Requirements for equipment such as sand filters.

In one encounter within the urban area a Challenger 2 came under attack from irregular forces with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. The driver's sight was damaged and while attempting to back away under the commander's directions, the other sights were damaged and the tank threw its tracks entering a ditch. It was hit directly by eight rocket propelled grenades from close range and a MILAN anti-tank missile, and was under heavy small arms fire for hours. The crew survived remaining safe within the tank until the tank was recovered for repairs, the worst damage being to the sighting system. It was back in operation six hours later after the repairs. One Challenger 2 operating near Basra survived being hit by 70 RPGs in another incident.[11]

Wikipedia page

Says here about the 70 RPGs and the MILAN missle being fired into it at close range. Also says it was repaired and back in service within 6 hours.

I have also witnessed the T-62 being able to track the Challenger 2 in 1 hit

[RHYS4190]

We were in the tanks, there were 2 logistic trucks behind us with both repair crates out. As for the challenger tracking, both of our tanks fired at the same time, thus tracking you.

As for the OP nonsense, they're not.

I also shot your tank in the rare with a HAT, when you where no where near those creates . so that really my problem, that the T-62 can survive a hat and keep going where as a Abrams would have been destroyed.

[PinkFloyd-]

Crates have a bit of distance mate, wherever you hit us, we were in range of one.

[USMCMIDN]

Do you doubt the might of British engineering? We've been building tanks long before anyone else.

"Apaches are not heavily armoured and it takes just one rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) to bring one down. Compare that with one British Challenger near Basra which survived being hit by 70 RPGs."

BBC NEWS | UK | Tanks and artillery 'face MoD axe'


But yes, I find the T-62 in good hands is equal to a challenger which is perculiar at best.

Wow...! That is pretty amazing ill admit I doubted it at first but....

And i never doubted the might of your engineering lol even we (US) use your top secrete armor in our tanks so when it comes to tanks you guys no your stuff and IDK if you guys care but my favorite 2 MBTs are the M1 Abram and the Chally I love them both equally.

Thanks for the source thats pretty sick

[ytman]

Solution to the confusion.


Run a SP or Local version of a map with T-62, get HATs, LATs, etc.

See how many it takes to kill it.