Russian thermals and sights are always behind the West. Overall it does seem like a solid tank though. Has pretty much all the modern features a modern tank needs. It can fire a missile from the main gun that has a 5km range supposably. How well they work I'm not sure. Someone else will need to fill me in. I wouldn't say the T-90M is superior to the newest Abrams, but it might be on par with it. Hopefully we never find out.