File talk:T-62 tank.jpg

T-42 tank in picture is actually a T-62 tank

So, I stumbled upon this picture when trying to link an image of a T-42 tank from the Wikipedia Commons. This tank is most likely not the T-42 tank (which is actually a Soviet super-heavy tank designed earlier) but a T-62 tank. User:Mzajac gives a good explanation on his talk page archived here [[1]], but I shall copy-paste it into this talk page for the sake of the discussion:

Nice shot; did you take any more? T-42 could be the designation of some obscure protopype, but this looks like a T-62 to me, and T-42 must be a typo. It's a bit hard to tell, because of where the barrier post is. A T-54 or T-55 has a bigger gap between the first and second road wheels; a T-62 has progressively larger gaps towards the rear between each road wheel, which appears to be the case here (and in the background of your nice PT-76 photo). T-62 also has the fume extractor in the middle of the gun barrel, as this one does. The rounded grab-rails on the turret tend to be on T-62s instead of straight ones, but superficial stuff like that can sometimes be misleading.

T-42 was the designation of a 1930 prototype multi-turreted heavy tank, similar to the T-35 but weighing 100 tons, which was never completed. That doesn't prove that this isn't also a T-42, because the Soviets sometimes reused the designations.

So, in light of the fact that the T-42 was actually a Soviet super-heavy tank created in 1933 (and has a corresponding image on Wikimedia Commons), the evidence pointing to this tank being a T-62, and there being no evidence elsewhere on the internet for T-42 that matches this picture (except for a few pages that reference this picture), the file should be renamed to T-62 tank.jpg before being moved to the Commons. TROPtastic (talk) 23:53, 18 February 2014 (UTC)