Giving a 12.0 tank a sub-400mm pen round @10m as stock is criminal. It should get L26. You quite literally can’t pen anything frontally unless they’re showing their LFP like a peacock does its feathers. L26 is a rank 1 modification regardless, so literally nothing will be lost by making it default.
Britain already sucks ass at top tier. Throw them a bone.
Have you considered that the T-series is disproportionately better than almost every other vehicle intended to be its equal for a number of reasons?
Lack of internal spalling, black hole ERA, paper thin structural steel plates eating darts, lolpen cannons, low silhouette, high mobility… the list goes on
Seriously, what compelled you to make that statement? The T series has been rampant for years and only recently began to get challenged by top of the line Leopard 2’s.
T-72s have no mobility, no reverse, awful gun angles, and until the T-72B3 have atrocious gun handling. Add to that mediocre armor profiles (and a lack of the ability to hide their weak points), bottom of the barrel reloads, etc.
T-80s are relatively fast forwards, however are still slower than the likes of the Abrams, also have poor reverses, poor reloads, mediocre armor profiles with the same lack of ability to hide their weakspots. Until the BVM, they have just as worse gun handling as the T-72s.
They don’t do anything well, except maybe tank 1 sideshot for 10 that they die to.
Black Night is a broken tank, once you switch to the machine gun, you cannot switch back to the main gun. Even though I reported this, it’s been more than a month and there has been no response to the report :D Even though I constantly tag the mods.