February 1991, the Gulf War. Republican Guard units defend ... engaged and destroyed a significant number of Iraqi Republican Guard tanks and Armoured vehicles. This was to be the last major ...

The mechanised division had about 200 tanks before the war ... Gulf. The division also was important to Saddam Hussein's government for keeping Shiite Muslims - the majority in southern Iraq ...

Desert Rats have wiped out a squadron of Iraqi tanks near Basra as UK soldiers revealed grim details of military forces massing in Iraq's second city. The engagement was described by military ...

The Gulf War also provides a detailed and objective analysis of each of the major issues and debates affecting the war -- ranging from the problems intelligence analysts had in estimating the total ...

As the Iraqi army retreated at the end of the first Gulf War, they took the term ... was built on the chassis of a Russian T-34 tank dating back to World War II. In place of the original ...

After Coalition forces drove Iraqi occupiers out of Kuwait in February 1991, U.S. Special Forces discovered an intricate sand-table model used by the Republican Guard to plan for the defense of ...

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 ...

Ukraine operates a small force of M1A1 Abrams tanks that were built for a war with the Soviets and defeated Soviet-made armor in the Gulf War. The Iraqi tanks were downgraded T-72 models, similar to ...