Getting a lot of milage out of that pic, huh?

>>64189353
>heavier than a Russian MBT
maybe before it was covered in 17 tons of ERA bricks and rusty sheet metal

>>64189353
It isn't a tank

>>64189353
fuck off spammer

>Russia developed Kontakt-5 because they were worried that 105mm APFSDS could penetrate T-72s and T-80s with Kontakt-1
>Russia is now not only out of Kontakt-5 and Relikt ERA, they're even out of their once seemingly inexhaustible stocks of Kontakt-1 and using painted masonry bricks instead
>They're also out of thermal and night vision optics and even back when they could see things they never managed better than minute of timezone accuracy
A Booker is more of an "MBT" than the pieces of shit Russia is calling "T-90M"s these days.

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>designed as a heavy tank
>redesignated as a medium tank
>still weighs less than a Panther
There have never been specific parameters or physical qualifications to be designated a light tank, or medium, or heavy, or even a tank destroyer for that matter. It's literally just a matter of doctrine.

>>64189353
>breaks glass to start production
>immediately cancels the entire program right after
Does the DOD really?

>>64189353
Booker isn't real. Booker can't hurt you. US defense procurement is a joke.

>>64189353
Get a new script, warriortard.