It’s cheaper, easier on logistics, and it does its job fine. The Ukraine war has proved, once again, that no tank is invincible, and the greatest danger to tanks is from dedicated antitank weapons rather than other tanks.

It’s ammo’s job to detonate, you just don’t want it detonating too early, or in the wrong place.

This is the correct answer. The autoloader also enabled them to remove one crew member, thus reducing interior space and increasing armor thickness for the same weight. Contemporary western tanks like the M60 didn’t have blowout panels either, so the argument that ‘the Bolshevik hordes have no regard for the lives of their peasant conscripts, while the enlightened west spares no expense to protect its precious troops’ holds no water

Overblown. Leopard 2s also throw their turrets when the ammo gets hit. Abrams have the blowout panels in the turret, improving survivability, but there is no tank in which having your ammunition detonate is going to be a good time.

The T-72 (the T-90 is just a highly upgraded T-72) remains an effective tank that can be produced in large numbers and has lower logistical requirements than the 70-ton Western heavy MBTs. It’s the same distinction as in WW2 between Shermans and T-34s vs. the German heavies - yes, at the immediate tactical level, the heavier tank is better, but at the operational and strategic levels, the lighter tank that’s available in large numbers and has a lower logistical requirement is superior

Sure, Americans are definitely to blame. The Democrats are Americans, by the way.

What you’re becoming is much worse than Russia.

Kamala lost fair and square. She was a shitty candidate who ran a shitty campaign. Supposing that Arabs and tankies are what lost her the election, well, perhaps she should have tried to win them over? Perhaps she could have promised to stop supporting the mass slaughter, for instance, but I guess unconditional support for Israel was more important than keeping Trump out of the White House!

And yet, despite the total failure of the Democrats to stop Trump, you still cling to them. “If only those damn Arabs had voted for us! So what if we’re killing their families?” “Tankies torpedoed Kamala for not being the perfect candidate!” Pathetic! You should own your failure - the Democrats failed you, and you failed yourselves and everyone else for not demanding more from them. You could have used this to grow as a person, morally and intellectually. Instead, you just fall back on scolding like in 2016. You’ll never learn a thing.

The white moderate is at it again, MLK remains undefeated in his assessment

Yes, that does make you a Nazi.

The entire western elite was involved in a huge pedophile ring? Russia must be behind this!

Well they’re not gonna mention that one

When Kojima scans feet, he does not destroy them.

I should pay more attention when posting, clearly. I see someone say “tankie” and I fire up the tank, but it appears that our disagreements aren’t that substantial. Unless you’re a trotskyist, of course…

Much more nuanced than expected. Okay, yes, the American revolution was a bourgeois revolution, and historically progressive in the sense that it unshackled the forces of production compared to continued British rule. It was still far less progressive and far less admirable than the French revolution, though.

Diva was incorrect in claiming that it was a counterrevolution, since there was no preceding revolution to react against, but the rest is all perfectly accurate.

You can cry “tankie” all you want, but you can’t refute any of it. It was a “revolution” led by slave owners who didn’t want to pay taxes.

It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, though there’s no direct evidence. One possible reason there’s no direct evidence is that, as deputy AG Todd Blanche recently said, they’re withholding any images that contain violence, physical harm, or death.

Comrade Donnie over here nationalizing industries, you love to see it

Being the best president of the 21st century is also an incredibly low bar. Two of the five are child molesters!

Who’s trolling? You’re the one who thinks the lives of 3000 Americans has more value than millions of Koreans and Iraqis.

Calm down, Ben shapiro