Considering that their planned tactic was to shoot at our individual tanks with an entire platoon, it might have worked. We’ve never been outnumbered in the same way we would have been in Germany, and we’ve never been up against Soviet crews. Dunno how well trained the would have been, but I bet they were better than Iraqis.
And the T-34 managed a pretty good “quality through quantity” against the Wehrmacht. Dunno how that would have worked for T-62s and T-72s against M-60s and M-1s. But an entire platoon of of T-72s firing APDSFS against against a single M-1, as fast as they can shoot, might have turned the trick. They Soviets could afford to trade one or two T-72s per M-1 at a decisive point.
It also helps to remember that we were up against “home-brew” rounds in Iraq. They weren’t firing Russian HEAT or APDSFS at our tanks. That might be why they bounced.
I’m just glad “The End Of The World As We Know It” scenario was never played out.
If you wanted to know how good the Russkies would have been look at the Iraqis, that’s who trained them. The Russians wouldn’t have only been met by M-60’s or M-1s coming through the Fulda Gap but A-10 Thunderbolts and Apache helicopters. The one thing more than American military hardware that scared the poop out of the Russkies(besides the West Germans) was that they would have had to travel through alot of their satellite states who would have turned on them in a heartbeat.