Heavy Metal – A comparison of Russian and Western armour

Foreword by the Saker: Kakaouskia has been a regular contributor to this blog and when I realized that he had first had experience with Western and Russian armor (as a career officer) I asked him to write a short “compare and contrast” between the designs these very different schools of armor design and use.  I hope that you will find this exercise interesting and, if yes, I could try to