burns about double the amount of fuel a leopard 2 does at the same speed, and burns at a high rate even at idle which in this war is what a lot of tanks are spending most of their time doing
Incorrect. Even the initial version of the M1 and it's power pack were ~65% worse at worst.
Newer M1s have APUs to run the tank when it's sitting still at idle.
modernized t-90, it doesn't have explosive reactive armor (at least no package that can be practically applied to it), it doesn't have an auto loader, it has a slightly smaller main gun,
Tusk 1 and 2 aren't difficult to apply. Tusk 2 adds better side hull and turret sides ERA.
No auto loader is almost every western tank and that's due to different design philosophy. The US tested autoloaders in tanks as far back as the 1950s and Meggit has a drop in autoloader ready to go for the M1 for years now
5mm of gun tube diameter is essentially meaningless, what really matters is the length of the penetrator rod in your AP shell, what metal it's made of and if your HE shell is programmable.
Lol why are truckers so based in damn near any country you go to?
That's pretty much my take on the Abrams. It's absolutely better than something like a modernized t-72, but it absolutely doesn't hold up against truly modern MBTs.
An incredible tank for its era but it's well past its expiration date. Other armies keep old MBTs around, but they keep them around to support their modern MBTs. They don't just keep them around and expect them to fight head to head with other countries' modern MBTs.
The T-90 up until the T-90M was very close to a T-72B. Slightly better turret and a better engine and sight but the sight and engine got backported to the T-72B with the B3 model.
The Abrams has also been continually upgraded for ~20 years. M1A2 to SeP to SepV2 to SePv3 to M1E3 (due in a few years)
Such as?
Tank kills aren't made by other tanks these days. Drones, laser guided munitions and ATGMs are the anti-tank meta, it's pointless trying to build new tanks to fight tanks.
Tanks still kill other tanks. ATGMs have been a thing since the late 1950s. Artillery killing tanks have been going on since 1916.
I mean that covered a big chunk of what you mentioned, but that also applies to ATGMs. The Abrams really wasn't designed with such weapons in mind which is why it has basically zero protection against any high angle attack.
When almost every modern tank was designed, top attack ATGMs weren't a thing. Nor were FPV drones.
High angle attack protection is the turret roof, like almost all other tanks. Maybe there will be a TUSK 3.0 package with a anti drone cage on top or roof mounted ERA bricks.
Are drones or grenades at terminal velocity fast enough to trigger ERA?
Nope. Even 30mm autocannon rounds shouldn't set off newer ERA blocks.
