While I myself have been a critic of the AK and agree that it has major shortcomings in some areas as compared to modern western tanks, There’s still things it lacks such as modern Ammo, a good APS etc, and I agree to that.
But you have to remember that it serves an entirely different role. It’s much lighter, how do you expect the same armor figures? It’s much smaller. It’s made for Pakistan’s needs and it suits them well. Every country makes takes according to its needs, that’s why there’s no “better” or “worst” tank. Russian tanks are made according to their doctrine and Americans tanks according to theirs. Each does something better than the other and with the resources at our disposal and keeping in mind our doctrine, the AK is very very potent.
As for Redeffects video, I know redeffect, I’m a member of his discord server and I personally talked to him after he uploaded that video, all the statistics he quoted were “the best guess/source” he could find on the internet and all of it is for the original AK, like the missing ERA and CITV, things that have since been added. And AK has a LWR, he says it doesn’t in the video because he couldn’t find a source to it.
After I showed him my own pictures of the tank and gave him some of my sources, he agreed that it is a better tank than what he said in the video, and he’s not to blame for that, there’s barely any sources for the AK available online and the ones that are available are from the 90s and 2000s. So he just went off those. It’s not right to use his video has an example to bash the AK.
