the TOW has a longer range then the 100MM gun on the T55.

the T55 was hopelessly outdated by the year 2000.

Ah. So in other words, the sandniggers never had a chance?

the T72 was a scary machine, if they could get a side shot into our flanks, they could score penetrations, the M1 is only rated frontally to take hits from the 125MM guns.

If memory serves, it was a pair of bradleys that were supposed to be investigating ahead and skirting around through some shithole desert that even the iraqis avoided. Wound up running into like 6 assorted soviet surplus tanks; Something like three TOW kills, and the rest from cramming it's smaller cannon up their tailpipe.

Thankfuly they had no idea how tactics worked and stayed still, the T72 is built for mobile warfare, and they did not use the doctrine that suited it, this is why Iraq had the 4th most tanks in the world yet got yeeted so hard

25mm Bushmaster chain gun can kill a T-55? Interesting.

the side armor of a T55 is only 40MM thick?

I think the 25 can get though that

the DU Sabots would go though both sides.

Ouch.

Talk about crispy critters...

Think there was a separate incident where like 4 Abrams wound up killing an entire highway's worth of shitty soviet surplus tanks.

T72s also have an unprotected auto-loader, if they suffered a pen center mass they tend to explode and blow their turrets off.

Combat Load T72M, suffers ammunition detonation from penetration.

Big Oof.

this is a design fault in Soviet and Federation tanks, they have autoloaders in their hulls, they have no way to have a way to safely release internal pressure from ammo failure, the M1 for example keeps all it's ammo in the bustle, if the ammo detonates, it blows out of panels on the roof to keep the crew safe

the T72 is the basis for the T90, the T90 suffers the same flaw.

I think the soviets would probably claim that was a feature more than a fault; A lot of their equipment was built around being more easily salvaged from your melted ass body when it killed you.

In all fairness, Saddam could not have fathomed coming up against the US and her allies, on paper the T72M is a hell of a lot better if you fight people who don't have tanks themselves.

There's an old adage out there about how they went from being the world's 3rd largest army to the 2nd largest army in Iraq in under 24 hours; That's sort of a hard situation to come back from.

Other funny problems the T72 and T90 have a "Hight limit."

The crew of a T72 suffer because of it's low nature, so the soviets only drafted people who are 1.6 Meters [5 foot 3 inches] or shorter to be tank crew men, if you go too far above this, the hatch on the drivers port will not close.

1.75 is the MAX

5 foot 9.

Anyways, off to bed

Night man; Good talk.

If you want more stories of stupid shit, let me know

Yeah man; At your leisure.

Do they have a secondary explosion that shoots down? Is that how it works?

Oh that one, that's some variant of the TOW that is top attack, flys over and deploys down, turret roof is very thin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I80_9Zfoww

the convention hallway there...

Nice.