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Originally Posted by shahadi
You might find the following interesting as did I: "And the T-90 is tough. In a rare glimpse of the machine in combat in February, an American-made TOW anti-tank missile fired by rebel fighters hit a Syrian T-90 but appeared to only cause minor damage." Source: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the...he-world-17468.
And the following: "For all the videos coming out of the Syrian civil war, a one minute, 31-second clip of a U.S.-made TOW missile slamming into a T-90 tank got more attention than most. In the video uploaded in February, Russia’s most advanced operational battle tank met one of the United States’ main tank killers on the battlefield." Source: https://warisboring.com/what-a-t-90-...65f#.aeve4bu32.
"The Research Institute of Steel, a Russian company which makes reactive armor plates for the T-90, was pleased. The crew lived, according to Russian press reports, and the only visible damage was on one of the T-90’s two Shtora transmitters, which hanged limp in the photograph."
I take away that the Russian T-90 is a hybrid of a T-80 turret mounted on a T-72 chassis, so it should not be much of a surprise of an Iranian variant as they plenty of T-72's (or had). Furthermore, the real prize is the reactive armor, do the Iranian produce quality reactive armor, and finally, that Syrian crewed T-90's Shtora's electro-optical jammer either failed to jam the TOW or, it did not switch on when fired upon. Do the Iranians have capable ECM?
As Iran becomes more embedded with Syrian forces and Iraqi forces, what they put on the battlefield is of utmost concern.
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I'm curious to know what exact TOW version is that, aside from "US made....main tank killers", especially if its tandem-charged or not.
From the document "Lessons Learned from the Ukrainian-Russian War" (at the other thread), it seems T-90 is indeed mighty enough to withstand standard single warhead ATGM, but since tandem-charged warhead is quite a rarity on these theaters outside of the producer nations (let alone be used against them!), we can't be quite sure how modern MBTs fare against these specialized anti-reactive armor missiles.
I somehow believe
modern MBTs would still not do well against
modern anti-tank missiles, i.e with multi-charged warhead.