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That's a pretty widely debunked myth, the Soviets back then and Russians now have plenty of arms and ammo, it's logistics, training, coordination, and the Kremlin only caring about ultimate victory which means they'll happily send 2/3rds of these new units as human ablative armor to exhaust the...

Russia undoubtedly has the STRONKEST! military in the world.

If 'a tank is a tank' is the major lesson of the current conflict so far where even tanks like the Leopard 2 / Challenger 2 have proven... not to be wunderwaffen..., a fully modern T-80 is better than most and especially compared to expensive boondoggle vaporware like the T-14.

Theorizing of false flag to whip up domestic fervor for the war intensifies.

Aside from maybe being less deadly to anyone in the general vicinity of the tank when it went off. Yes. It. Would. The ammo is stored right next to the crew so if any of it went off they'd all become BBQ... and since there's little compartmentalization since the design is immediately post WW2...

Outside of manning them with kamikaze pilots, and rotsa ruck finding volunteers for 100% guaranteed death if successful missions like that, the ability to use these things as VBIED's is incredibly limited. To hide them in buildings you'd need buildings big enough to house them and yet also...

That they don't pop their tops as spectacularly as the autoloaders do when hit by a top attack ATGM doesn't mean much considering the thing was built to be armored against 1950's-1960's technology and as seen in Syria most any ATGM the rebels got their hands on would turn the entire crew of any...

T-55 VBIED's is really scraping the bottom of the barrel considering even beyond mobility and fuel supply issues any explosion will take the path of least resistance out the top, bottom and rear of the tank rather than the much thicker armored front and sides. They're more likely either going...

1. Soviet Union had a lot of its industry in parts that aren't part of Russia anymore. 2. The economic collapse and de industrialization after the fall of the USSR was apocalyptic in all ways from the loss of physical infrastructure to the loss of the skill and knowledge base. 3. The war was...

Honestly, a lot of the Russian kit is serviceable to even good as proven by how the UAF has been performing with it... it's more that Russia's war effort is like a chain metaphorically and there are a dozen links that are far weaker than their equipment...