M1 Abrams American Tank Destroyed In Iraq

An Iraqi Republican Guard officer is showing the press a destroyed American tank after the famous battle of Saddam International Airport in april 2003 .

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[controlusplease1]

translation:

our army has been completely obliterated, american forces are rolling through baghdad, and our government is capitulating as we speak, but at least we got one of their tanks!

[cygil1]

Americans: 10,948

Iraqis: 1

[kodoman66]

@controlusplease haha. Funny thing is...they didn't even get one. that tank was lost due to friendly fire. to this day and forward not one m1 abrams has ever been lost due to enemy fire. Spectacular battle record.

[ReignReviews]

@redline19k lmao troll successful, people still raging about my post

[redline19k]

@ReignReviews why don;t you reqawd some comments before posting such a mistaken comment. no reason to look silly on the internet.

[ARepublicanVictory]

American military RULES.

[controlusplease1]

@TheKifinas I also have to say that the Iraqi insurgents did surprisingly well with what they had. They realized Saddam's mistake, and capitalized on our failure to secure the military installations right away, and looted all the weapons. They used these weapons in a Guerrilla war against us that lasted 8 years. They succeeded in killing 16,000 ISF, 4,800 Coalition, and wounding over 100,000. Compare this to the estimated insurgent body count of 40,000. Its really impressive.

[controlusplease1]

@TheKifinas Modern equipment doesn't mean much if you use your forces effectively. For example, Saddam wasted all his soldiers in large battles with the coalition, when he should have garrisoned his soldiers in the cities of Iraq. would have turned into brutal Guerrilla urban warfare, where technology is mitigated. Then he may have stood a chance against us. There were never more than 265,000 Coalition forces, although there were 805,000 Iraqi Security Forces. My source: I was there.

[TheKifinas]

@controlusplease1 ok lets say it differently . You have modern equipment they have 40 years old equipment with their forces getting limited training . In wikipedia it writes that you had 1 mln soldiers . 650000 to the iraqies . Your sources ????

[controlusplease1]

@TheKifinas The Coalition forces numbers were 265,000 men in country during the 2003 invasion, of which 148,000 were American, 45,000 British and 70,000 were actually anti-Saddam Iraqi Peshmerga's. They faced a force of 375,000 Iraqi Army, 50,000 Republican Guard, 44,000 Paramilitaries, and 650,000 Reservists. Comes out to 1.1 million men against the Coalition. Saddam had massive amounts of forces, but used them for large battles instead of Guerrilla warfare like he should have.