I wouldn’t say so. They had a small dispute over the removing of gold orders. And now Kharkovtank has changed his name, and Uraltank has been sent to the gulag for his connections with the committee to save gold orders.
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Was more referencing the competing design bureau’s, that and how T-64/80’s are often seen in competition/comparison against T-72/90’s.
But glad to know they had a tragic ending too.
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I know that there was a competition between the Kharkov plant, which developed the T-64, and the Nizhny Tagil plant, which developed the T-62. The T-62 was better than the T-64, but the Kharkov plant had a better agreement with the party, so the production of the T-62 was stopped. This led to a scandal, in the end the T-62 and its logical continuation, the T-72, won.
This also led to the emergence of an interesting Tagil modification of the T-64. When the ban on the production of the T-62 was imposed, Tagil began producing the T-64 with components from the T-62. This is where the scandal began.
I mean the T-64 was a massive improvement over the T-62, the issue was that the T-64 was also significantly more expensive as well, not to mention had the issue that all tanks have in their earlier phases of reliability issues.
The T-72 was built more using the lessons learnt from the T-64 to be a more reliable and cheap model, though ofc, early tank phase means its not reliable ofc.
For some reason I thought that the T-62 and T-64 were different projects from design bureaus of different plants.
And now on Wikipedia I couldn’t find anything about the T-64 being a development of the T-62. Maybe later I’ll try to look around in other sources, but right now I’m a bit busy.
Pretty sure am the only doggo forumite here 
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