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Did a Chinese-Made Anti-Tank Missile Kill America's Best Tank in Battle?

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DemolitionMan:
Robert Beckhusen

On Oct. 20, 2017, the Kurdish Peshmerga claimed to have destroyed an Iraqi M-1A1 Abrams tank during fighting in Kirkuk province and took grainy video footage to prove it. It was an especially noteworthy clash given that Western allies supplied many of Iraqi Kurdistan’s anti-tank missiles and Iraq’s Abrams tanks.

The Iraqi military’s Joint Operations Command accused the Peshmerga of targeting the tank with a wire-guided MILAN anti-tank missile launcher, which Germany supplied by the dozens to the Peshmerga for use against Islamic State’s up-armored suicide bomb vehicle

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/did-chinese-made-anti-tank-missile-kill-americas-best-tank-22894

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