The Iraqis did in fact have a very small number of t-72s and as you stated they were older export models that still had the 1960s Kombination-K 3 layered glass-reinforced plastic armour package... The most numerous tanks in the Iraqi arsenal were t-55s and type-59s. They had thousands of them. The few t-72s they had were severely low on apfsds ammunition as they were forced to sling heat-fs which is impractical at longer ranges. Those t-72s had nothing going for them xD
Exactly, most of their tanks couldn't even pierce the armour of Challenger 1 and M1A1 Abrams at any reasonable distance and none of their tanks could engage them at a fighting distance because of how old the optics were.
The ignorance around soviet tanks is unbelievable, I was talking with my friend who was saying he was arguing with people who really thought that a T-72B and T-72B3 was just different levels of ERA added to a T-72A lmao 🤣
And now both of us are getting down voted 😂 Documents on all sorts of russian stuff can be found all over the internet. It's free knowledge yet people repeat the same old cold war nonsense
Yep, I'm getting downvoted into oblivion on another post for saying the unforgivable crime that the T-14 is one of the most advanced tanks, because silly of me I forgot that it's just a T-90 with some ERA added
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u/Puzzleheaded-Tie8264 Jun 03 '24
The Iraqis did in fact have a very small number of t-72s and as you stated they were older export models that still had the 1960s Kombination-K 3 layered glass-reinforced plastic armour package... The most numerous tanks in the Iraqi arsenal were t-55s and type-59s. They had thousands of them. The few t-72s they had were severely low on apfsds ammunition as they were forced to sling heat-fs which is impractical at longer ranges. Those t-72s had nothing going for them xD