Ukraine's tanks will again be outnumberedįrom top Left: A British Challenger tank, a French Leclerc tank, a Polish German Leopard tank and a US Abrams tank. While many of those Iraqi tanks were older Soviet designs, it buoyed hopes that the development of an agile but powerful tank able to beat overwhelming numbers had been a success. The M1 Abrams reported similarly long-range engagements over the flat terrain of Iraq’s southern desert, destroying around 160 Iraqi tanks with no combat losses at the battle of 73 Easting in February 1991. The US and American tanks proved better than expected ― even with the challenges presented by the hot, dusty deserts.īetween the first Gulf War in 1991 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, British Challengers destroyed more than 300 enemy tanks and suffered no combat losses. In 1991, a Challenger 1 ― a less well-armoured version of the modern Challenger II ― destroyed an Iraqi tank at a range of at least 4,700 metres, still thought to be the longest-range tank kill in history.īritish engineers from the 7th armoured brigade bow up a mine shield in January 1991 in Saudi Arabian desert. Reutersīut, it was not until Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s that the British and Americans would put their Challengers and M1 Abrams to the test against the largely Soviet-made T-72s of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. ![]() Germany will follow the US in providing a Patriot missile defence system, pictured above, to Ukraine.
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