Interesting article in the Jan-Feb issue of Armor magazine. Apparently, NTC trainers from the 11th ACR are assisting the Afghan Army in tank training using their old T-62s. For those of you who served back in the day when the T-62 was one of the more dangerous targets you would be engaging, it's kind of interesting to see US style tank crew gunnery skills training being used on T-62s.

Apparently they were sent from Romania with a Romanian mobile training team consisting of soldiers from Romania. Many of the Afghan tankers have been fighting with the T-62 for years as well.

Tango-62, yuck! Low profile, yeah, but when you have to elevate the tube so the loader can get the next round in the breach; talk about a "please, shoot me now" profile on the battlefield! But, then, I always thought Denzel Washington's "friendlies, turn on your lights" was a shot of pure brilliance, even though it was Hollywood! Charlie-Mike, Rob

I can still remember those day when I was fully expecting to see one come up to the gate! It's a strange, new world we are living in!!!! One the other hand, they do make GREAT targets for A-10'S! Always love your hogs!

Tracy

Very interesting article, Maj G. Thanks for sharing this.

Cheers !!

Robert

hey great news opens up some ideas for building that old tamiya kit,you got any pictures of them?thx larry