Originally Posted by m1tch311

Ill elaborate on what zraver. Typically their inferior to western designs. A lot of Chinese tanks are copies of Russian ones with a few different nuts n' bolts. The modern day Russian MBT (t-90) is really not as good as the Russian want you to think. The t-90 is actually a marketing scheme. When the Russians went into Chechnya and lost a bunch of t-80s and t-72s that even further damaged the Russian export tank market. So the Russian with their "innovation" simply renamed a upgraded t- 72 and thus, the t-90 was born. The t-90 never saw action in chech so its name wasnt soiled while in fact a buncha identical t72s got destroyed.

P.S. T-90s are also cheaper than M1s so you could get more of these expendable tanks, Lenin said "quantity has a quality all its own".