Both tanks can kill each other that's quite obvious and that's all that matters.
There are too many variables in combat to just say this tank is superior to that one especially if they have never faced one another in the field only a flag waving fool thinks otherwise.
Panthers and Tigers were deemed "superior" to the Sherman and it didn't do them much good.
Active protective systems are cute toys but seriously in a tank on tank firefight anyone here actually seriously believe the Abrams armor jockeys are actually going to be using HEAT rounds against a T-90?
No APS system in existence does anything but gives a pretty light show when used against a sabot round especially DU.
H.R. 4739 wasn't just between the Army and the Air Force, it also included the Marines.
The Marines were to get A-10s on a 1 to 1 with their OV-10s as well.
Quote:
SEC. 1439 . REPLACEMENT OF OV-1 AND OV-10 AIRCRAFT WITH A-10 AIRCRAFT
(a) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS- (1) Funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Army for any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1996, may not be used to operate or maintain OV-1 aircraft.
(2) Funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Marine Corps after September 30, 1996, may not be used to operate or maintain OV-10 aircraft.
(b) RETIREMENT OF OV-1 and OV-10 AIRCRAFT- (1) Not later than September 30, 1991, the Secretary of the Army shall retire not less than 20 percent of the OV-1 aircraft in the inventory of the Army on October 1, 1990.
(2) The Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy shall take such action as necessary to retire, by not later than September 30, 1996, all OV-1 and OV-10 aircraft in the inventory of the Army and Marine Corps, respectively. The Secretary of the military department concerned shall notify the Secretary of the Air Force at the time each such aircraft is retired, and the Secretary of the Air Force shall, upon such notification, transfer one A-10 aircraft and all required support equipment to such military department.
(c) TRAINING AND SUPPORT- Chapter 901 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section :
`Sec. 9316. Training and support for A-10 aircraft
`The Secretary of the Air Force shall provide each military department with flight training, fleet support, and depot maintenance with respect to all A-10 aircraft assigned to each such department.'.
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I haven't seen anything repealing this law but also not saying they haven't.
But it would be nice for that mean beast to be kept, it saved my butt more than once.