They joked about this tank that it was adopted only "thanks to the hammer and such and such a mother." Despite the phenomenal firepower and armor penetration of the world's first smooth-bore tank gun U-5TS "Hammer" mounted on the T-62, the military struggled to insert "sticks in the wheels" into the new Ural tank, preferring the Kharkov T-64, on which huge funds had already been spent, and only the direct intervention of Marshal Chuikov, who overlaid his subordinates with a multi-storey Stalingrad mat, allowed to launch T-62 into mass production.