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🇺🇲🇺🇦 Biden is due to announce deliveries of Abrams tanks to Ukraine on January 25 Washington plans to send 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Kiev. The transfer process can take months or even years. Thus, the United States will fulfill the condition of Germany, which…
From March of 2003 to March of 2005, approximately 80 Abrams were knocked out of action by insurgents in Iraq. Of these, 63 were eventually repaired but 17 were damaged beyond repair. Many of those recovered were damaged via improvised means such as IEDs. The destroyed, however, were largely because of Russian weapons systems:
>During the Iraq War, Kornets were used by some groups of Iraqi special forces to attack U.S. armored vehicles, disabling at least two Abrams tanks and one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle in the opening week of the war.
Same performance was seen in 2006:
>The second verified episode of the Kornet ATGM in combat use occurred during the 2006 Lebanon War, where the missiles, reportedly supplied by Syria which were reverse-engineered Kornets produced in North Korea,[33] were used by Hezbollah fighters to destroy up to four Israeli Merkava tanks.[34] Kornets pierced the armor of 24 tanks in total.
The attached pictures should speak volumes.
>During the Iraq War, Kornets were used by some groups of Iraqi special forces to attack U.S. armored vehicles, disabling at least two Abrams tanks and one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle in the opening week of the war.
Same performance was seen in 2006:
>The second verified episode of the Kornet ATGM in combat use occurred during the 2006 Lebanon War, where the missiles, reportedly supplied by Syria which were reverse-engineered Kornets produced in North Korea,[33] were used by Hezbollah fighters to destroy up to four Israeli Merkava tanks.[34] Kornets pierced the armor of 24 tanks in total.
The attached pictures should speak volumes.