SOV - T-10M

The last and most widespread version of the T-10 series tanks had a new stabilized M-62-T2 cannon with greater power (185 mm armor shot at a distance of 1000 meters with standard ammunition against the previous 160 mm at D-25TA, when using ammunition BP-460A up to 300 mm). Other changes included the replacement of the original V-12-5 engine with a more powerful V-12-6 with 750 horsepower.

Command vehicles with advanced radio equipment were called T-10MK. At the time of production and acceptance of T-10 tanks into the armament of the Soviet army, the so-called heavy tank divisions (1957 to 1965) formed part of the organizational structure of the Soviet ground forces. T-10 tanks were concentrated in these divisions, whose core consisted of three heavy tank regiments. In August 1968, T-10M tanks joined the Operation Danube - the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies into Czechoslovakia.

In the seventies, the towers of discarded tanks T-10 were used in border forts and even for the armament of armored trains. Entire tanks were buried in the early 1990s (1992-1993) in the Kuril Islands or on the Russian-Chinese border as static strongholds.