They’re the best they can use (except the french iirc). DM53 dont even lol-pen a T-80U with its old Kontakt-5. When you’re lucky to pen, it will do very little damage, which doesnt fit as “lol pen”.
Congrats on finding an exception to the rule, and it’s only an exception at moderate to long ranges where the LFP is covered.
Funny enough I lolpenned a T-80U form 800 meters away using M1A1 HC recently, and I only had object permanence guiding me because they were behind a tree.
Exceptions to the rule aren’t the rule, and even that exception is not much of one.