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Monday, November 18, 2002Regarding the M-1A1 Tank
It is written up in Dunnigan & Bay's book, _From Shield to Storm_.
To paraphrase: An M-1A1 from the 24th Mech. Infantry was bogged down in a marsh, and left for the following recovery vehicles. Three T-72's showed up first. The bogged M-1A1 took two 125mm HEAT and one 125mm sabot rounds on its frontal armor (the sabot from 400m!), none of which penetrated. It destroyed all three, the last by firing a shot *through* a sand berm. (The crew could tell where the Iraqi tank was because they could see a radio antenna.) When help arrived, the Abrams was so stuck that two M-88's couldn't pull it out. Rather than leave it behind, it was decided to destroy it. Since they lacked explosive charges, they had several other M-1A1's fire on it. Two rounds failed to penetrate and a third only set off the ammo, which vented out through the top panels. At this point, two more M-88's arrived and they were able to pull it free. Everything still worked, except the sights which were damaged by the explosion.
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