>>64391114
What's insane is that already back in the fucking Soviet era the Ukrainians (Kharkiv) were already pushing for ammo to be stored in a separate bulkhead. The T64 was Ukrainian (Malyshev) and higher performance and was considered too complex so the Russian (Ural) T62 was the mainstay of the USSR. Later the Russian T80 (Omsk) was developed from the T64 but with a gas turbine engine. This too was considered too complex for mass production, so the Russian (Ural) T72 became the mainline tank of the USSR and was much much lower performance. The T72 was designed as a secondary tank, the low in a high low mix. The Ukrainian T80UD (Malyshev) with a boxer 12 cylinder engine instead of the gas turbine was to be the mass produced higher spec vehicle but the Russians just decided to spam more and more and more lower performance T72s and their variants. The T90 is just a T72 upgrade. It's actually lower performance than the T80/T80UD. The Ukrainians developed the T80UD into the T84 which is higher spec than the T90. Russians ALWAYS go for the cheap low spec version and hope they can just spam it. They simply don't fucking understand that simply having a bigger number of things doesn't mean that they will win. They can't comprehend that sometimes quality does beat quantity.