What Ivan fails to understand, he's fighting the tools of American's, not Americans. If he wants to see what Americans can do when they put their minds to it, he needs only to fuck around to find out.
What American's need to realize is war has changed, drastically.
You don't need an F-16 to take on an Abraham's, you need a hundred dollar drone, with a shaped charge that hit's the coupling ring between the turret and the tank body.