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Failed Tanks! The Iraqi made Asad Babil
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Take that T-72 haters!! Iraqi Cardboard T-72 is not a Soviet T-72
It may be have been a "Cardboard T-72" but it still used the base T-72 design. So it shares the same design strengths and weaknesses of the T-72 and variants. Also I wouldn't take this guy's info to heart as his claims are sometimes questionable... at best. It's better to cross reference what he's claiming.
Yep, BlacktailDefense is sometimes pretty questionable. The only series I liked was his one on the NZLAV, which made a lot of sense and seemed to line up with the facts here on the ground, I don't know if he is a Kiwi or not (he has a video of the 25mm Bushmaster's muzzle flash completely obscuring the thermal optics, which either he got through a colleague or maybe even filmed himself). I'd take him over that absolutely retarded mcDalek guy any day though.
As for the Asad Babil, and Saddam, reports differ as to just how many were actually used in 2003. They were obviously used, we know that much (even in this video he shows the molten mess that those things burnt down to, which is not how a single other T-72 variant has died since that war). Generally people accept that the Saddam was used as a parade vehicle, and that was about it. The Asad Babil probably saw combat. People forget however, that the T-72M was bad, like really really bad by the 21st century. T-72As and other "true" T-72s are on a whole other level generally speaking. As for cardboard Asad Babils, they have next to no reflection on real T-72s at all. I can make a paper airplane in the shape of an SR-71 and throw it around, it'll fly, but it's no SR-71.
Altogether, it is not strange or exceptional, in any way or form that Iraqi T-72Ms were decimated by M1A1s in tank v tank battles that had complete aircover, C4I, overwhelming numbers and above all, better training than their Iraqi counterparts.
That training rounds thing was nonsense, the rumour was that Saddam was low on proper munitions by 2003 anyway, hence training rounds were loaded in some tanks. The Soviets not supplying Iraq with proper munitions is total fantasy.