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Old 12th Oct 2022, 19:09
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Originally Posted by MPN11

My concern is whether UKR has sufficient ammunition to dispose of them.
You mean T62s? It is very old design with side armour thickness in the range of just 80mm. With direct side impact an M72 LAW will penetrate it and make poor mobik wish he would've surrendered in a timely manner. No need to waste NLAWs or Javelins on that one.
And as seen in videos from Ukraine, every fighter and their dog carrys at least one LAW at any given moment. I'd say Ukraine has sufficient ammunition to manage those accordingly.

The modernised version has a bit thicker side armour with passive armour protection, but later M72's are advertised to penetrate up to 450mm of steel and the armour protection has often seen to be a victim of corruption so shouldn't be an issue.
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