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Originally Posted by Bad Karma
I guess I have a certain scenario that that is going on, and that of a conventional war between Soviet and US forces. The period I am only considering, is the initial beginning of the war in Iraq. I was also trying to point out that there are other factors involved...that the Soviets would have in such a war but the Iraqi's didn't have, i.e. Kornets. In a head to head fight, I think in a ground war the Abrams would undoubtedly have the advantage. However, we would suffer far more casualties due to other variables, but still the Abrams is a vastly superior tank over T-72/T-80s.
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That depends, if the Soviets avoid the cities and it was a meeting engagement the US has huge advantages before the tanks ever collide. Soviet recon doctrine was to blunder forward until your security element came under fire. While this insures your main force never gets surprised as long as the security element is alive it slows the the whole thing down and does nothing to tell you whats 3+KM away.
The US on the other hand invested heavily in the recon-counter recon fight. The advantage of information by the US from the mid-80's on combined with its air dominance is almost insurmountable.