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The autoloader on the T-64 and T-80 is different from that of the T-72 and T-90, although they all have the carousel. In that carousel each place you can put a round in is called a casette. If you look at the same page you linked and look up the Black Eagle autoloader there is nowhere that it says casette autoloader.
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What vassily calls a magazine, I am calling a cassete, if you look at his diagram it winds and unwinds the chain just like a VHS or music cassette. What he calls a cassette in refrence to the T-72 is a peace of the ammuntion not the style or way the autloader works.
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IMO, any war would have turned nuclear really quickly.
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do you really think either Germany would have allowed Nuclear release? Do you think the USSR was ready to go down that road? By the 70's the effects of radition and nuclear winter were public knowledge and the anti-nuke movement was very powerful.
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There were less than 500 M1A1s with 120mm guns in Central Europe by 1987, while 90% of Soviet armor had ERA. There were not enough helicopters, and the Soviets also had well designed and powerful attack helicopters.
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And how many hundreds of Leo's, Cheiftans, and new Challanger I tubes added to that mix? Not to mentions gobs and gobs of 105mm systems in the hands of the smaller allies.
As for attack helo's, the Mi-24 Hind barely managed to function in a low threat enviroment. How well the slow lumbering sloth could have done in skies patrolled by eagles and watched by gepards and rolands is another story. It's wire guided atgm's are a huge hindrance with massive exspoure time. The hellfire's supersonic flight time really cut down exposure.
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No, the journals which I am talking about - since I have read them, and know exactly what they're saying - is that in the mid-80s the strategic shift had shifted in favor of the Soviet Union. In 1987 nobody knew that the Soviet Union would fall only four-five years later.
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I think your looking for "red scare", I was handed a supply of "air force" when was a kid, while dealing mostly with the air threat it did cover the ground side of things because of ALBD and deep interdiction. The tenor of the conversations IIRC was on the USSR closing the gap, not on thier huge lead in numbers which was being adressed by CFT(E) plus Gorby's unilateral withdrawl of 10,000 tanks from warsaw pact satalite countries in 1988/90.