This Iraqi Tank Is Known As The 'Beast'

A Bombed car was trying to target #ICTS hero's in #Hit, and was blown away by a Cornet Rocket! pic.twitter.com/pUVvS1zZ5z

— جهاز مكافحة الإرهاب (@iraqicts) April 12, 2016

Foreign Policy: Meet the ‘Beast,’ the Little Iraqi Tank That Could

The Pentagon continues to search so hard for clear victories against the Islamic State that it can show off to a war-weary American public that it has begun heavily promoting the exploits of a single Iraqi tank nicknamed the “Beast.”

Baghdad-based military spokesman Col. Steve Warren went out of his way during a routine Wednesday briefing to praise the crew of the Iraqi Abrams M1 tank and assert that it “has been driving all around Hit, crazy, blasting IEDs [improvised explosive devices].”

Warren even tweeted out a video of the tank in action, taking out an Islamic State car in Hit that was packed with explosives.

Read more ....

WNU Editor: From the same news report .... Washington has supplied at least 140 General Dynamics-made Abrams M1 tanks to Iraq over the past several years, though American warplanes have reportedly had to destroy at least 10 of them after they were seized by the Islamic State.