Some T-62s, however, have received a passive night sight. Most models have the same IR night sight and driving equipment and the same fire control equipment as the T-54/55. Some T-62's may have been retrofitted with full NBC collective protection systems (air filtration and overpressure). It has the same PAZ radiation detection system as the T-55. The tank also shares the snorkeling and smoke screen-generating capabilities of the T-54/55 series. This engine gives the T-62 a cruising range of 280 kilometers cross-country 450 kilometers on paved roads, with integral fuel cells and 400 kilometers cross-country, or 650 kilometers on paved roads, with two 200-liter auxiliary fuel tanks. Like the T-55, the T-62 has a 580-hp, V-12, water-cooled diesel engine. The driver's hatch is in front of the turret on the left side of the flat, low-silhouetted hull. A gunner's IR searchlight is mounted on the right, above the main gun.Ī smaller IR searchlight is mounted over on the commander's cupola. The T-62M also mounts a 12.7-mm antiaircraft DShK machine-gun at the loader's hatch position. There is also a 7.62-mm coaxial machine-gun. Its bore evacuator is about two-thirds of the way up the gun tube from the turret. The 115-mm smoothbore main gun has a longer and thinner tube than the 100-mm main gun of the T-54/55. The loader's hatch on the right is also farther forward. The commander's cupola on the left is cast with the turret.
The rounded turret, mounted over the third road wheel, is more smoothly cast and more nearly egg-shaped than that of the T-54/55 series. The drive sprocket is at the rear and the idler is at the front there are no track return rollers. The chassis has close spaces between the three front road wheels and large gaps separating the third, fourth and fifth road wheels. The T-62 medium tank has a fully tracked, five road-wheeled chassis.
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