T-62 VS Leopard 2AV | Armour Piercing Simulation

This simulation shows the impact of a 3BM3 APFSDS with Tungsten Carbide slug being fired from a Russian T-62 tank at a range of 1km, targeting the front side of a German Leopard 2AV hull. The T‑62 main battle tank was noted for four main achievements: • it was the first Soviet tank to mount a high‑power 115mm smoothbore gun; • it was the first Soviet tank to use armour‑piercing fin‑stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) ammunition; • it was only produced in the Soviet Union and not licensed for production in Warsaw Pact countries as with the T‑34, T‑54 and T‑55 (although the DPRK received a conditional license to produce their version of the tank); and • it was the last ‘simple’ tank produced as an example of the first generation of post‑war Soviet tanks. While just over 19,000 series production T‑62 tanks were built over its 11‑year production run, after less than a decade in Soviet Army service it was released for export, an