Название: M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural: Operation Desert Storm 1991
Автор: Steven J.Zaloga Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Duel 18
ISBN: 978 1846034077
Год издания: 2009
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 8,9 MB
The Gulf War bore witness to a number of deadly encounters between these two great adversaries. Heavily armored, highly mobile and capable of killing at over 2500m the M1 Abrams is, to this day, a veritable fighting machine. Superior to both Iraq's Soviet era T-55 and T-62 tanks, nearly all sources claim that no Abrams tank has ever been destroyed by enemy fire. Despite entering service in 1980, the M1 Abrams remained untested in combat until the Gulf War in 1991, where it was to be confronted by its archenemy the Iraqi-assembled Soviet-designed T-72.