The lfp of Abrams is a no-go for me, why? because the 3BM42 will more likely be taking out the driver only which allowing the Abrams to return fire, I would always go for the turret ring area which is a reliable weakspot, the turret ring area doesn’t seem any bigger than T-80B lower plate if you take the zoom level of both tanks into account, the lfp of rusky is a kill shot in 7/10 times based on my experience, also you only has to kill two crews which always the case should a shot goes through the hull section.
And zoom doesn’t mean that there’s a bigger weakspot. Sure, the weakspot may look bigger, but it doesn’t mean it is bigger.
In that case, you could argue that bigger magnification also means bigger strongspots as well… which clearly isn’t correct.
From what i heard some prototypes of the T80B had thermals, so in theory it did actually have thermal imagers, allbeit not something fancy, so gen 1 is pretty accurate
It was a serial T-80B that was used as a test bed for Agava 1st generation thermal. KMZ (developer of it) mentions some T-72 also carrying it
As i understand it might be not the only one to carry it.
I disagree. The T80B is a very good tier 10.7 tank yes armor is more weak, but still good at it’s BR, while the T80BV could be positioned above the T80U, or foldered with it; it could be tier 11.0.
Russia 10.7 line up it’s not possible because only T80B is 10.7 with 2S38 which is weak
I’d say the T-80B was mediocre when it had a 7.1s reload, but now it’s in a very good position at the moment, but I’m not sure if the 6s reload warrants it going to 11.0.
The UFP armour is just about enough to stop DM23 and M774, which is good enough at 10.7 but would be incredibly mediocre (for an Eastern MBT) at 11.0.
Other than the UFP armour, Side armour, and turret armour being worse, it has better reverse speed than the T-80UD, better acceleration than the T-80UD, better top speed than the T-80UD, same reload as the T-80UD, access to thermals + ESS, and similar gun handling and optics as the T-80UD.
Is the T-80UD’s ~500mm - ~600mm UFP armour, Kontakt-5 ERA side armour, and Kontakt-5 ERA turret cheek armour equal to all the pros that the T-80B gets? I’d say I would take the T-80B in most cases and so I could see them be a 0.3 BR kind of difference.
If it were to go to 11.0, should it be 0.3 BR lower than the Swedish T-80 U, which has all the good attributes of the T-80B (with even better acceleration mind you) while having all the good attributes of the T-80UD?
