Yemeni's Soviet-Era Missiles Hunting S. Arabia's Abrams Tanks

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There's no point arguing with the Middle East section village idiot. Btw the picture he put up isn't of an Abram or Egyptian for that matter.

Bullshit! Most the idiot wear guellabahs above their waist! A country of more than 70 millions individual cowing down to an artificial state, and you call me an idiot..I will take that as compliment coming from a fava bean counter!. That picture is of an Egyptian Abrams, posted by an Egyptian that has not sold his soul like you , a spineless wonder...Ya fendi? do you know the reason the Great el mazbala el 3arabia, crawled to Hollande begging for Rafales? If you knew the reason and then you grasp at the Arizona junk you were getting from the united stated!

I dont tell you my opinions, but facts. The only "downgrade" is lack of DU in front. Thats about it. Sides are exactly the same.

Bullshit! For an ex tanker , it doesn't say much for your training...Anyway you fooled the Egyptian and the Jordanians, but you certainly didn't fool hizbollah or Hamas (your creation)

Easy destruction of Merkava is nonsense. Hezbollah fired hundreds of ATGM, including TOW and Kornet and destroyed only 3 (two additional were destroyed by large IED).

You became like neighbors you ignore facts, and make your own

Recently Hamas fired many ATGMs including Kornets and failed to destroy single Merkava.

Not only destroyed them, but captured them intact..

As for Abrams in Gulf Wars, no single enemy ATGM was fired against them:

Almost true statement, one Abrams was disabled by an RPG roquette, and US abrams had better targeting systems, a better touret fortified with depleted Uranium...Between un Egyptian Abrams and a US one , there is an ocean of differences!

 

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You are telling me a 120 mm HEAT cannot blow up an Abrams? I call that bull. A shot from an Abrams almost certainly destroys another Abrams.

 

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Yemeni Forces' Soviet-Era Missiles Hunting S. Arabia's Abrams Tanks

TEHRAN (FNA)- Destruction of the US-made Abrams tanks by the Yemeni army's 40-year-old Konkurs missiles these days proves that what Washington has sold to the Persian Gulf Arab countries at a high price is no more than a piece of clunker.
Recent footage released on the web shows the Yemeni army and popular forces attack an Abrams tank with Konkurs missile which fully destroyed it instantly, of course to much surprise.

Although one of the tank's crew manages to flee the scene, the footages show the tank is set ablaze and destroyed completely.

Konkurs is a SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile made by what was once known as the Soviet Union. Its NATO reporting name is AT-5 Spandrel. The missile entered service in 1974.

The Abrams is an American third-generation main battle tank produced by the United States. The M1 Abrams entered US service in 1980, replacing the M60 tank. After the start of the Saudi-led war against Yemen, two M1A2 (Abrams tanks) MBTs were deployed near the Saudi/Yemeni border.

Beginning in 1987, M1A1 tanks received improved armor packages that incorporated depleted uranium (DU) components in their armor at the front of the turret and the front of the hull. Armor reinforced in this manner offers significantly increased resistance towards all types of anti-tank weaponry, but at the expense of adding considerable weight to the tank, as depleted uranium is 1.7 times more dense than lead.

That's why the US has been using Abrams only with this improved armor for two decades now.

But the US-made tanks sold to Saudi Arabia and used in Yemen war have no DU armor, meaning that the US has sold Riyadh nothing but a piece of junk which was once good for war in the 1980s.

Video: Hunting 'Abrams' moving coffins!

Sauds,UAE are just terrible at war. they really should hire the Taliban to run their military


a machine is only good as the operator I rather be in a Abrams when it gets hit by an ATGM than soviet death trap.

add to the list, Abrams junk which U.S sold to Iraq and so far several ones has been destroyed by ISIS terrorists.

name me a tank that survive a direct hit from a konkurs,kornet,TOW,HJ-8??? only the latest and upcoming APS can stop'em


now this is junk that just blows up when it get's hit

at least an Abrams gives you a chance to survive

 

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Not only destroyed them, but captured them intact..

Seems you indeed decided to play a role of local village idiot. Are you talking about this one?

Almost true statement, one Abrams was disabled by an RPG roquette,

Many were disabled by ancient RPGs.

and US abrams had better targeting systems, a better touret fortified with depleted Uranium...Between un Egyptian Abrams and a US one , there is an ocean of differences!

The only difference is DU in front.

 

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Seems you indeed decided to play a role of local village idiot. Are you talking about this one?

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you think that I am one of your Arab friend idiots that cover for day in and day out...I am a descendant of the one who gave Sharon a bloody nose and a migraine that he lived with the rest of his life. Your cohort of idiots might cheer your reply, but pdf with sense know that Hizbollah will not demean themselves with an Israeli picture, trying to deflect the falaka you received from them, and they to this day the only force in the area that can respond and repay Israel in kind..So be real!
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The fuel tank part of a tank is the most vulnerable. The fuel can ignite after being hit. Gas has a lot more energy than TNT.