The last few updates Russia / USSR has been getting T-72s and T-90s. But this just isn’t cutting it in the current meta.
The T-90s have the long 7 second reload speed and a slow 4km reverse speed. The 3bm60 shell is also starting to show its age. The additions of Abrams SEP v3 and Leopard 2A7s have also been pretty rough for Russia / USSR. Just look at the win rates and KDs for these tanks.
The solution is more T-80s. There are few that can be added.
I would prefer more original content for top tier. This is just putting gas to the fire that Gaijin has lit with “new” main battle tanks being locked behind a 420 000+ wall for an active protection system when they could be added as modification on the first place. This also includes poor variantions of existing vehicles like this T-80U-E1 with Relikt explosive reactive armor—“Hey guys, we have a brand new vehicle: A T-80U but with Relikt ERA, how original?”. Definitely no.
It’s certain to say that most hopes of the Object 640 being added can be let go away, BVV_d once said that no footage of the Black Eagle shooting was available for analisys, so the vehicle can’t be added at the moment; with that said I don’t think that will be added unless Gaijin just dismiss any requirements, guess the missing information and add it anyways, which I don’t think that’s happening also. The Burlak turret could be added for both T-90 and T-80 platforms, two in one, given Gaijin recent additions of similar vehicles (BMPT and BMPT-72) one could certainly be implemented as premium vehicle.
Object 219M, although very interesting in my opinion it’s not something that will break through the current Meta and improve the USSR top tier main battle tanks as you say—it’s a T-80BV for the most part. The issues with the Object 219M is the engine “turbo” mode and the abcense of a commander crewmember, which means only two if I’m not wrong, doubtful if it will improve the Meta, but regardless it’s a interesting vehicle that could be added anyways.
T-80BVM (Obr. 2023) in my opinion: No. I don’t think that the innovations on the vehicle would improve a whole lot, there’s the T-90M (Arena-M) for that task. If people want a vehicle with active protection system—T-90M (Arena-M) and T-72B3A (Arena-E) is already in-game, the spot after T-80BVM could be reserved for something worth the grind and being something fun not some souless simple swap of explosive reactive armor package from Kontakt-5 ERA to Relikt ERA.
