Following a year long in-service trial of around 40 early production examples of the new DDS/SMA tank the T-62Y by units of DDS Terrestrial Forces full production will begin in a few months. The DDS has placed an initial order for 500 of the tanks with Sanger Municipal Arms its in-house land weapon developer and supplier. Eventually the DDS will buy around 2000 of the tanks which will replace the mixture of T-89s and T-55Zs currently in service over the next 5-6 years.
The production model is known as the T-62Y1 and has a number of detail changes thanks to experience with the prototypes which served on Proxima 7 and Liberation. Molab is said to be also interested in the tank though will also take ex-DDS tanks replaced by the new one.
