Abrams also can't handle the Ukrainian terrain very well; it was designed with open space in mind, but Ukraine has so many hills, streams/rivers, trees...it would become a slightly more mobile AT emplacement lol
I hadn't even thought of that, but you're precisely right. I mean, generally, we've been using the Abrams in roles for which it was never intended for decades. The Abrams was designed decades ago for a massive armored clash in the Fulda Gap that never came to be.
Now granted, no tanks do well in irregular terrain like that, but the Abrams is basically only deployable in any effective capacity by the US. The Ukranians would see very little benefit from them even if the country was as flat as Kansas.
My understanding is that Soviet tanks are built significantly lighter and smaller than the Abrahms because the Soviets weren't capitalism brained dipshits and actually considered what weights the bridges and roads their tanks were intended to operate on could stand. Also, apparently the US only has like one or five bridgelayers capable of deploying bridges the abrahms can cross. The thing will not have good manuervability in Eastern Europe while mobility was made an important design constraint for Soviet armor.
Abrams also can't handle the Ukrainian terrain very well; it was designed with open space in mind, but Ukraine has so many hills, streams/rivers, trees...it would become a slightly more mobile AT emplacement lol
It also weighs 70 tonnes, 80 with the addon packages, so good luck crossing bridges.
Or a field. Or anything that doesn't have reinforced pavement.
America continuing the Nazi tradition of tank design
I hadn't even thought of that, but you're precisely right. I mean, generally, we've been using the Abrams in roles for which it was never intended for decades. The Abrams was designed decades ago for a massive armored clash in the Fulda Gap that never came to be.
Now granted, no tanks do well in irregular terrain like that, but the Abrams is basically only deployable in any effective capacity by the US. The Ukranians would see very little benefit from them even if the country was as flat as Kansas.
My understanding is that Soviet tanks are built significantly lighter and smaller than the Abrahms because the Soviets weren't capitalism brained dipshits and actually considered what weights the bridges and roads their tanks were intended to operate on could stand. Also, apparently the US only has like one or five bridgelayers capable of deploying bridges the abrahms can cross. The thing will not have good manuervability in Eastern Europe while mobility was made an important design constraint for Soviet armor.