Tanks In The Current War

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Voriax

I think Russian tanks are truly light tanks in a way because the heaviest russian tank today is the T-80UM (46.00 tons, this includes the weight of 6 AT-11 guided missiles.) It is faster than an M1A2 (Max road speed: 70 kph,) and has 425mm rounded frontal armor.

The M1A2 on the other hand can be considered a "heavy tank" or a "medium tank" because it is 63.22 tons, max road speed of 65 kph, and has frontal armor that's 670mm thick! (chobham composite)

Interesting note: The T-80UM has better REAR armor than the M1A2 by an average of around 25mm thicker.
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Vetkin, I'd say 'medium'. But my point was that until recently their tanks were pretty much in the same weight class as western counterparts.

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