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My connection won't let me view the vid, but the T-80 series is quite impressive, IMO fully the equal of the M1. It mounts a more powerful gun which probably outranges the M1's 120mm with the FSDSAP round, and handily outranges it with the barrel-launched ATM setup. That ATM can also be used against helicopters and low/slow-flying fixed-wing aircraft. Whether the T-80s armor suite is enough to defeat the M1's main gun is still unknown, of course, but I'm betting that the glacis plate and sides, at least, are capable of such a stop. ERA, of course, makes HEAT rounds a much dicier proposition, which limits one's ammo choice to FSDSAP. Anyone know how effective the explosive component of ERA is at stopping penetrators? Depending on the ERA's effectiveness, it might even be proofed against our penetrator rounds up to fairly close range.
Gotta remember that the M1's performance against Iraqi T-72s was no an example of what would happen even against Russian T-72s, to say nothing of the T-80/90 series tanks. Saddam's tanks were obsolete the day they were sold, under-armoured, and using defective ammunition. Lots of their FSDSAP was found to be loaded with half-charges of propellant and steel penetrators. No wonder they sucked so hard! A Russian crew in a modern tank such as the T-80 or T-72M (Ukraine) would be a very different opponent.
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