one of the first to begin deconserving khrushchev-era t-62 tanks, british intelligence suggests that the russians will probably try to equip with them even the units of the first guards tank armyich suffered serious losses ; in practice, it turned out that in order to deconserve one such tank, it is necessary to use several others at once, that is , in fact, as a lego constructor , assemble one from several tanks, and if you have several hundred of them realistically, you will be able to display several dozen of them en masse at the front, so far in ukraine no one has seen them, because storage is a very relative concept, first of all, while some tanks are somewhere in storage, the entrance to the others needs to be repaired, and the fact that they were not in storage, let’s say, were large there are numerous facts of industrial cannibalism. that is, what does this mean? it means that there is an armored personnel carrier or a tank in order to complete the task of repairing others that were performing, they removed spare parts from it, not to mention the very characteristics of these tanks , because they are modern and closer than the soviet ones. times, it is also a tank whos