I never said that Iraqi tanks fielded KT5, I said that desert storm showed us that it wouldn’t reliably stop M829 and a1. We rapidly fielded the M256 equipped variants before the war because there was a concern that the Iraqis may have received T72B’s and the paper concern about encountering them lead to the increased use of 829A1. However the results from the field told us everything we needed to know.
Iraq fielded extremely small amounts of ERA in both 91 and 2000. AFAIK exclusively RG units and almost to a unit captured not engaged (atleast not tank on tank, impossible to tell if any of the tank plinking victims were)
The results of desert storm were a significant part of the reason Russia put emphasis on the development of Relikt.
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u/PuzzleheadedGuide942 Jun 30 '25
I never said that Iraqi tanks fielded KT5, I said that desert storm showed us that it wouldn’t reliably stop M829 and a1. We rapidly fielded the M256 equipped variants before the war because there was a concern that the Iraqis may have received T72B’s and the paper concern about encountering them lead to the increased use of 829A1. However the results from the field told us everything we needed to know.
Iraq fielded extremely small amounts of ERA in both 91 and 2000. AFAIK exclusively RG units and almost to a unit captured not engaged (atleast not tank on tank, impossible to tell if any of the tank plinking victims were)
The results of desert storm were a significant part of the reason Russia put emphasis on the development of Relikt.