Comments by "Gabor Rajnai" (@gaborrajnai6213) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

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  28. From worst to best. T90 is basically a combination of the best parts of a T-72 (very good and robust, yet easy to service and cheap suspension, hull, engine and transmission) and the best parts of the T80 (Turret, fire control, and sights) It still suffers the same faults in the vulnerability of ammo in the auto-loader. The 125mm on it is the Same as the T-80 and proven insufficient to penetrate most western MBTs frontally even at 500 meters with tungsten ammo. The British bought some in 1992 through a third party and thoroughly tested them, then they passed some on to the Americans which we tested “Extensively” and then we passed the ones we didn’t ruin to the Germans who shortly there after began an upgrade program to their Leopards. I had the good fortune of taking part in that last round of tests. The gun launched ATGM is a band aid to help engage targets at over 3000 meters as the main gun elevation isn’t sufficient to shoot HEAT rounds past that range. In every other respect, they are inferior to a HEAT round, with the added drawback that the tank must remain stationary and exposed during the whole long flight time of the missle at that range. Later on in 2000, we did get to buy a fresh T-90 (Called a T-72BU back then) from defecting troops in Chechnya, The reactive armor was good, stopping TOW and Dragon missles. The rest was minor improvements over the T-80. At only 48 tons it is the lightest of the bunch but simple physics tells you that there just isn’t enough mass of armor there to stop a modern APFSDS round, Composite armor, while somewhat lighter than the equivalent thickness of RHA, is still very heavy, the primary benefit being that you don’t need to have a meter thick front turret to have well over a meter thickness RHAe. Were it 1.5 times as effective as The DU armor on an M1 (And it is most definitely not) The T-90 just cannot cary enough at that weight to be as well protected. The Leopard 2A4 Proved vulnerable to the T-80s gun hence the Rapid Modernization of most European Leo 2’s to 2A5 and Later 2A6 standard in the mid- late 90s and the willingness of the Germans to fire sale 2A4s to anyone with the cash. The Germans refuse to use DU ammo and found out their tungsten ammo had difficulties with the T-80 front turret at 1500m+, leading them to add barrel length to the gun (55 vs 44 lengths) to combat this. The additional Applique armor on the 2A5 proved capable of holding up to the 3BM48 depleted Uranium 125mm APFSDS. So of course the Ex-American Tanker picks the M1 right, If you are going to accuse me of jingoism, you may want to stop reading now. Well I actually was there and got to watch as a 3BM48 failed to penetrate both a Challenger 2 and an M1A1 at 1000m then again at 500m frontally. It was able to penetrate both tanks from side shots at 1000m which was concerning. Kontakt 5 reactive armor did prove to be able to disrupt an M829A2 sabot round 1 out of 3 times to the point that full penetration of the front turret was not possible, leading to the development of the M829A3 round which was designed specifically to defeat this type of armor. Mobility goes to the M1 as well, it’s governed speed is the lowest of the 3, but that is really to protect the tracks, top road speed is a useless figure in combat Acceleration is the key, getting you from one spot of cover to the next. The only tank I have ever seen out accelerate an M1 is a T80- That’s it. It will out accelerate the Leo 2 and the heavier 2A5 or 2A6 regularly as well as the T90, though admittedly the T-90 scoots very well, out-running the Leo 2A5. The M256 L/44 120mm did fine with old M829A2 APFSDS penetrating nearly 70% of the time at 2500 meters with ERA, and 100% without at 3000 meters. Sadly, we were not allowed to test M1 vs Leo vs Challenger 2, and to be honest I would not want to get hit by a HESH round from a Chally-period.
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