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Originally Posted by S-2
Soviet systems evolved as rapidly as U.S. Zraver, what's the range of sagger? Can it penetrate an M-60A3TTS?(1978) They hulled Centurions and M-60A1s nicely in the Sinai. Reactive armor? Later than 1980, for sure?
M901? (1978) You are young. For the seventies our TOW gunners didn't have such luxuries and fired uncovered and EXPOSED.
Human material? Ours wasn't better into the eighties. Maybe worse in MANY cases. We didn't piss-test for dope before late 1981.
Personally, were it 1976 and the GSFG was crossing the IGB, I'd leave those thoughts at the door. They wouldn't help you one bit.
I'll leave it here.
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I think that our problems lies in the bold. I am talking the Reagen era, your talking the post Vietnam era. I can be well cited on this board for saying during the 70's specially 73-75 and 76 is close enough to this that the Soviets had the edge.
In the frame your talking the most modern equipment in the Army's inventory was the AH-1 with the tow and M-60A2 starship. The rest of the force did not enjoy the technology edge I have been arguing.