User blog comment:Legionaire22/Tau Pathfinder vs Eldar Ranger. Who. Is. Deadliest?!/@comment-1536954-20111231034715/@comment-1536954-20111231035354

If you're taking the Tau's equipment that you listed, then it might be a very close battle, but the equipment listed is that which is given to Shas'ui (Tau Sergeant), except the burst cannon.

Shas'O's have much more powerful equipment than that:
 * Plasma Rifles, rocket pods, fusion rifles, and even special issue weaponry like the Airbursting Fragmentation Projector (kinda like a long range cluster bomb launcher)