This is not a game site:
Pakistani Tanks
Or is it?
It says:
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M-48A5 (Pakistani-Modified)
Notes: Pakistani M-48A5s normally mount reactive armor (HF, TF, TS). They also mount a W-85 (C), instead of an MAG. They are otherwise standard M-48A5s.
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I wonder if anyone will accept or buy any equipment after it let the country down in war with total humiliation as in Assal Uttar (which also means "Real Reply") and therefore, it would not be too incorrect to presume that the Pakistani continued to have whatever they had of the Patton consignment that came as aid and thereafter did not accept such a tank again!
And which tank used Laser Range Finder in the 1960s (Encyclopaedia Britannia)? Apart from the US I don't think others would have "more modern" a tank!
To be frank, I am real keen to know how come that some in the IA felt that Pak Pattons had Laser RF. This is more so since I was a cadet those days and it stuck in my memory because as cadets or military novices, technicalities is all that one would understand and feel great that they have militarily arrived!
While in service, to be frank, I really never bothered that much about the technicalities of an equipment as a novice would and as one observes from the 'which is the best' type of threads. Its performance, employment and result was all that interested me, more than the mere technical characteristics.
I was seeing a thread about which is better - a HIND or a Cobra! Much was said about technical prowess or otherwise. But little did anyone speak about the employment and which was more adept in which application of combat!
A heavy tank is wonderful for armour protection. But what about mobility and ground pressure? In the plains of Punjab and that too when the crops are high, it matters immensely or for that matter during monsoons!
Therefore, all these comparisons made so far is not catering for the terrain and the weather. Technicality is not the only issue to look at the superiority of a tank. It is in which terrain it is to be applied and what are the weather conditions in which it is to be applied is what matters.
Would a Patton or a Centurion work in the riverine terrain of Bangladesh as in 1971? Obviously not. That is where the amph PT 76 did a great job and PT 76 is hardly comparable to Patton or the Centurion in technical prowess.