Another weakness of t-62 is its homogeneous armour which makes it particularly vulnerable to fire from larger 125 mm guns being fielded by the indian contingent.Īgainst these 600 odd tanks indian contingent had about 300 t-90s divided into two blocking brigades on the outskirts of diamond restricted area spaced out to attack and destroy the angolan formation in a synchronised pincer movement as they were expected to retreat form the city of windhoek under intense air operation. However during the libyan invasion of chad in 1982 lot of these tanks were destryed by unorganised militia by attacking from the side with recoilless rifles by attacking the comparitively thin side armour. First time the tank was put to combat in any significant quantity was during yum kippur war of 1973 when israeli forces managed to capture intact nearly 400 syrian and egyptian t-62s and after the war upgraded them with laser range finder,explossive reactive armour and improved general electric diesel engine. Atomatic unloading feature made the job of loader easier. This smooth bore feature gave it the additional capability of firing armour piercing fin stabilised discarding sabot shells and also significantly better range when firing high explossive anti tank shells. One of the first of the smooth bore 115 mm tank guns was considerably more powerful than contemporary 90 and 105 tank guns. His main strength wuld be ofcourse the t-62/55 tanks. So he decided to take a break and do one last check of his air defenses before commencing the final assault on namibain capital Though he was happy the way things were and expected to be within sheeling range of windoheck city and international airport within 36 hrs something in his trained military mind warned him of great danger like alull before storm. Even the vaunted indian airforce after first few days of intense close air support mission seems to have lost the taste of war and presently concentrating on defending the namibain capital and the the deep sea port. He knew from his intel sources within windohek and walvis bay that a substantial indian armour and heavy guns have been offloaded but till now there was no sighn of them comming to battle. General nobutu was mildly surprised since for the last 24 hrs there have been no major airstrieks on his formation and 600 odd tanks in his formation ahve slowly and carefully advanced to the fish river canyon along the main expressway towards windhoek. ANGOLAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE - FISH RIVER CANYON -DAY 31
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