Hey I'm not the one who quoted
But anyhow, that is whatever. Out of all the issues I raised with your previous post - this one seems key to you.
So any more points about BUK or your top 8 list which put top of the line upgraded T-90 somewhere almost at the bottom?
Are you going to address the issue that T-72B3 can compete with T-64 Bulat while being minorly inferior? Ukraine only has 100 or so of them meanwhile Russia has almost 1400 of T-72 upgraded to that level and more (T-72B3M).
So realistically, Ukraine will be using minorly modified T-64 against vastly modified T-72B3 and T-72B3M. That is before we take into consideration Russians brining out 2-3K of upgraded T-80's as per Roff and media - you seem to completely ignore that point. Ukranian T-80's will be outmatched by Russia with almost 1 to 10 ratio.
Ukranian top dog tank T-84 Oplot which can compete with T-90S/M they only have 5 or so of them.
I'm just confused as how you came to conclusion that even if Russia can commit half of their tank armada, they will be outmatched in quantity and quality. When in most cases they will be facing bottom of the barrel modification of T-64 and perhaps run into equally slightly better T-64 Bulat. If we believe media about T-80's numbers then main battle tank for Russian would be upgraded T-80 going against Ukrainian T-64 and T-80's.
How can you look at all of that and come to conclusion that Russia will be outgunned and outnumbered on battlefield with tanks.
Your 1 to 8 tank list needs its own thread on how you managed to put upgraded to the top T-90 below T-64.
Once again to reiterate even if we forget existence of thousands upgraded Russian T-80's that were bought and ugpraded specifically to invade Ukraine. We are left with T-72B3 and T-72B3M which once again can compete evenly or slightly worse than fully upgraded T-64 Bulat. Therefore any T-64 below Bulat upgrade level - would be inferior to T-72B3 and T-72B3M. The problem is that there is only 100 T-64 Bulats meanwhile 1400 of T-72B3 and above modification. All the T-64 apart from 100 Bulats are of very basic upgrade and are inferior to T-72B3 and T-72BM3.
Once again, this is before we talk about elephant in the room of thousands upgraded Russian T-80's.
Lastly, I really don't think tanks will be deciding factor in a ground war at all. So why are we even going at it - I dont know.
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