The hull didn’t get any upgrade whatsoever, any top tier shell can go through like butter.
None of the SEPs that got added did any good to the US tech tree, just more tank to waste time on grinding but in the end you find out that they’re worse than the previous ones.
Because US focused on Turret upgrades because the Abrams was made to defend the Fulda in prepared defensive positions, also the fact that they have been fighting insurgencies means they never had a reason to upgrade except improving durability (ergo multihit capabilities) of the DU inserts instead of actual armor value
Blame the US for not giving Abrams improved hull until the SEPV3
Ah yes, you’d know better than the country that spends 20mill dollars per tank, and billions on their ground units.
The armor that’s ingame is based on export models, non of them is the actual armor that’s in the actual tank, DU gets removed and anyother armor that’s classified just like the version that been sent to Ukraine not having the armor it should get, but that didn’t stop it from performing better than their counterparts.
You do know America guarantees the export composite is just as good as DU right? They only use DU because it’s cheap for the amount of protection it gives
T-90 is quite new though? Relatively speaking. Also, yes all of the abrams models are upgrades from the original M1… that is literally true just as it’s true the T-90M is an upgrade of the T-90.
Those Abrams models recieved significant upgrades that they became entirely new tank, the only thing they share with base M1 is general design and same engine, nothing more.
Same method also applies to T-90M, both tanks only share same hull design while T-90M offers superior:
-protection
-reaction time
-awareness
-mobility
-survivability
-new turret design