National Interest: Russia's Tank Forces Got A Really Rude Awakening In Syria
Maybe the T-90 should have stayed out of the desert.
Key point: TOW missiles used by Syrian rebels blew holes through Russia's armored tanks.
The interconnected conflicts raging across the Middle East today have amounted to a dreadful human catastrophe with spiraling global consequence. One of their lesser effects has been to deflate the reputations of Western main battle tanks mistakenly thought to be night-invulnerable in the popular imagination.
Iraqi M1 Abrams tanks not only failed to prevent he capture of Mosul in 2014, but they were captured and turned against their owners. In Yemen, numerous Saudi M1s were knocked out by Houthi rebels. Turkey, which had lost a number of M60 Pattons and upgrade M60T Sabra tanks to Kurdish and ISIS fighters eventually deployed its fearsome German-built Leopard 2A4 tanks. ISIS destroyed eight to ten in a matter of days.
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WNU Editor: In the age of missiles everything is vulnerable to an attack.
3 comments:
But in the age of missiles, if everything is vulnerable to attack, what about the missiles themselves? you said EVERYTHING! :):D
Good to see someone climbing out.. I wish war was just about destroying equipment rather than all that murdering
What happens when the need for a human being to operate a weapons system such as an MBT is not necessary? The death of the MBT! And the birth of something else!
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