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dep.la préhistoire : bcp de discours, tjs la misère 28 janvier 2023 23:51
DLaF mieux que RN ou Z / Ukraine
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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