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28 janvier 2023 23:51
1. Previous Wars Showed NATO Tanks Aren’t ’Wonder Weapon’
Neither the German-made Leopard 2 nor the US M1 Abrams tanks are invincible, Leonkov continued.
This
is not a ’wonder weapon’ and everyone knows that. These tanks have
already participated in various military conflicts with a varying degree
of success. These military conflicts can be defined by the term
’colonial wars.’ That is, technically developed states used these tanks
in fighting against those who had problems with the modern military
equipment, that is, with a weak enemy.
Alexey Leonkov (Russian military expert and analyst)
The
Leopards’ first combat experience, and battlefield losses, occurred
during the US-led war in Afghanistan. In the course of fighting against
the Taliban,* three Canadian and six Danish Leopard 2s were
irretrievably lost, with another 15 Canadian Leopards were disabled but
repaired.
Likewise, Turkey deployed dozens of its Leopard 2A4 tanks
to northern Syria in 2016 and 2018 to fight against Daesh (ISIS)** and
Kurdish militias, where a dozen or more of them were knocked out by
IEDs, suicide car bombs, or anti-tank guided missiles. Some of these
armored vehicles were reportedly destroyed by the Soviet-era anti-tank guided missiles Malyutka (« small one » in Russian).
The M1 Abrams’
debut was during Operation Desert Storm, the US war with Iraq in 1990
and 1991, that aimed to drive the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. Even though
the tank performed relatively successfully at the time, several years
later, US tank battalions sustained losses in urban combat during
Washington’s invasion of Iraq. Reportedly, over 80 Abrams had been
destroyed by then and 530 more had been forced back to the US for
extensive repairs.
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