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has scant protection against nuclear attacks.

What protection does this tank offer against nuclear attacks that the others didn't? Better air filtration to protect from fallout? That is about the only place where I think they could significantly improve protection from that type of weapon. Just my uneducated guess.

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Actually, a Tank is a pretty good place to be when close to a nuke strike (Note: at Ground Zero, all warrenties are null and void). The M1 Abrams series can withstand a great ammount of radiation and has EMP protection. The Soviets lead-lined the turrets on their tanks, but didn't offer this for export. The T-90 also has better EMP shielding and NBC systems than the old T-72s.

More importantly in a RPG rich war (as one with Pakistan's Islamic radicals may entail), the T-90 can mount the Droz and Arora(I think that's the name) stand-off and close in active protection systems. These systems (being modified and improved on by France for open sale on the arms market) can,in theory, engage and destroy RPGs and ATGMs before they hit the tank.