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Aerial view of a destroyed Iraqi column consisting of a T-72 tank, several BMP-1 and Type 63 armoured vehicles, and trucks on Highway 8 in March 1991. Iraqi forces including the elite Iraqi Republican Guard's 1st Armored Division Hammurabi were trying to either redeploy or escape on and near Highway 8, the continuation of Highway 80 in Iraq. [7]
They played an important role in the ambushes mounted against the US Army 507th Maintenance Company and Charlie Company of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, before AH-1 Cobra helicopters wiped out the Iraqi tanks. Two Type 69s destroyed at least four vehicles of the 507th, among them a heavy truck rammed by one of the tanks.
20 T-54, T-62 and Type 69 tanks destroyed; 2 T-72 captured; 17 armoured vehicles destroyed; 114 trucks destroyed and 7 captured; 26 artillery pieces and anti-arcraft guns destroyed and 40 captured; 70 82 mm and 120 mm mortars captured; 700 tons of ammunition captured and destroyed at the Al-Salman Air Base
Iraqi EE-9 Cascavel armoured car hit by Coalition tank fire in February 1991. Coalition aircraft inbound during Operation Desert Shield. List of Gulf War military equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.
The gunner of A-24 was also killed by tank fire from friendly US forces. [6] The disabled A-22, A-36 and A-24 were left abandoned on the battleground, while A-31, although heavily damaged by friendly tank fire, was able to pull back. [5] All the surviving Bradleys were raked by machine gun fire and shell splinters, but they remained operational ...
Task Force 1-41 Infantry destroyed multiple Iraqi tanks in defensive entrenchments. Task Force 1-41 Infantry was the first coalition force to breach the Saudi Arabian border on 15 February 1991 and conduct ground combat operations in Iraq engaging in direct and indirect fire fights with the enemy on 17 February 1991. [3]
Police, meanwhile, said the "cause of the fire and explosion is under investigation, with the working theory being uncontrolled combustion in a garbage truck hopper, igniting Compressed Natural ...
On Easter Sunday April 11, 2004, a battle was fought at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in Iraq primarily between United States Army truck drivers, air defense artillerymen, armor, military policemen, engineers and miscellaneous logistics personnel and militants from Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, along the Southwest side of the airport wall in an area commonly referred to as Engineer Village.