obat36 East Germany

[Shan]

OK great to have an inside account on this as well - so now, however, we can finally agree that they never had T-62s. Again, AFAIK the only WP country that actually got T-62s was Bulgaria.

If you look at the (real) East German OOB at various times then you see (with sources such as the book I mentioned) then you see how big the difference of, say, theoretically available equipmnt to the Soviets was, when compared to what was made available to WP countries and how long it took to equip their units with any relevant numbers. In the late 60s/early 70s, MMR divisions still had a fair share of upgraded T-34/85s, and in the late 70s/early 80s these were exchanged for T-54s, and so on. But even at that time, a lot of T-34s were still in storage as a emergency reserve... and would have shown up on the battlefield - in an extreme case, imagine a t-34/80 unit against the very first M-1s or Leo2s... but it could have happened.