Mud, sticky rain, and smoke engulfed the battlefield. Visibility was low, and tracers flew everywhere. Friendly fire was not unusual. The American Abrams and British Challenger tanks were scattered in ...
This exact vehicle also holds a unique record - it annihilated an Iraqi tank from a staggering distance of about 3.17 miles. Will the Challenger 3 surpass its predecessor? Although the new tank is ...
Military sources said British Challenger 2 tanks engaged the Iraqi tanks - thought to be Russian-built T55s - as they began moving south out of the city towards the Al Faw peninsula. A fight ...
Iraqi tanks holding key bridges in the area were bombed by US aircraft, while troops seized the airport north of the city. There was some resistance from Iraqi forces who fought back with ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four U.S. Marines died in Iraq when their tank rolled off a bridge into a canal, the U.S. military said. The deaths were not the result of enemy action, the military said.
Tank commander is all about being able to know ... One of my friends, who was unfortunately killed in action in Iraq, was an amazingly fast loader. He could switch in usually three to four seconds ...
The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central ...
The M1A1 Abrams saw heavy use in the Gulf War in the early 1990s and proved to be a formidable asset capable of defeating Iraq's Soviet-era tanks — T-72s similar in certain respects to those the ...
Iraq’s Defense Ministry has received the first batch of 36 T-90S tanks under an arms contract with Russia MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. Iraq’s Defense Ministry has received the first batch of ...
Bush, editor-in-chief of The American Enterprise magazine and author of "Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq." Think Tank is made possible by ...
CAIRO, December 3. /TASS/. Iraq sent units of armored forces to the border with Syria as a reinforcement to its troops in the area, Iraqi military spokesman Yahya Rasul said. "As one of the ...