Greatest Tank Battles | Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Battle of 73 Easting

Saddam was only taking back Iraqi territory that what was stolen by the Saudis with the cooperation of the U.S. & the big American oil companies led by Exxon/Mobil. Had Pres. Bush Sr. not had very close ties to the Saudi royal family through his oil interests, the U'S. would likely not have gotten involved. After all, Hussein was the U.S. chosen despot in Iraq. Only uneducated naïve Americans buy this U.S. propaganda.

Good bless my father made it out of this alive. My true hero. He doesn't talk about his time over there until he opened up to my a little bit about him being here for this last night. One badass mother fucker he was. Hats off to him and the others there.

Those Abrahams and the Leopards will make barbeque out of saddam putins T-72s pretty soon

i nver seen a single iraqi tank shoot

Music wasn't loud enough. I could still hear some of the dialogue. And. Isn't music what a war documentary is all about anyway.

Colonel Doug MacGregor. Still in the fight!

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Kicked there butts. 🇨🇦👍

Stop calling this a tank battle.....it was a turkey shoot at best

The gulf wars.....where you got to claim to of fought in a war.....but no threat of dying

Peter Ashtar
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This is a great summary of how superior the Abrams tanks were compared to Russian T-55s and T-72s. That was over 20 years ago. Today, we see that a good anti-tank missile, like the Javelin, can turn a main battle tank into scrap in seconds. So we will get to see how the Russians have advanced in their anti-tank missiles in that past 20 years and if those Abrams the US are sending to Ukraine become targeted by Russian drones and turned into $8M piles of burning scrap. Same with the Leopards that Germany are sending. That would be a bad look for US technology.

Iraq was gangster till NATO showed up

To be honest, I felt sorry for the Iraqi Army. I didn't feel that way about Suddam Hussein! I think Suddam bit off a heck of a lot more than his Army could chew. The Republican Guard was one thing but those Army conscripts just wanted to go home. They probably didn't know or even understand exactly what was going on.

T72 did not fire a single shot to the US army?

I get the impression that if the US 1st Cavalry Division popped through a portal in 1991 into 2023 in Ukraine they would wipe the floor with the Russian in the Donbass. Despite being tan and not green. The level of organization the US Military demonstrates despite itself is truly remarkable. Having served, its amazing how our training translates so well to other battlefield.

Maybe in 20 years the Abrams X will be our MBT lol

America !! Fuck yeah!!

Love the Rommel Pic. These Days they would have a picture of Ru Paul in the Tank.

That's just a warm up, I believe the real battle didn't happen. LOL

During WW2, LRDG British forces has manage to roam the desert at will and Iraqi were lost in 1991? Stupid arabs!

Idk what they are teaching military now but, this military in 1991 is in my opinion better then the one we have now so people talking about going to wipe russia out better get a clue. Won't happen until we get some discipline back some sense of honor and duty and am actual objective. Definitely get rid of the corruption that has become so bad it's becoming a national security threat.

Bloody brilliant post!!!! Well done with this. When you look at how it has all progressed since we brits introduced the tank to the theatre during WWI - its just incredible.

The speed tactics are American tanks are using is called blitzkrieg, and German that’s a lightning war move fast

Blitzkrieg in German is lightning war, which means move fast

Us as Americans we may not want to admit it, but we’ve learned a lot of our tank tactics from the Germans from World War II got to move fast and quick. Can’t give the enemy any time to breathe.

God bless the American men and women who serve the American country

Man we really chewed them up

There was no chance. A poorly trained army with subpar armor and weaponry vs modern American might

This show is my entire childhood. Pure Nostalgia

I have a few takeaways from this particular episode.
1.) Ya failed to include the British 8th. Army's own ferocious tank battle as they moved into Kuwait 🇰🇼, itself, alongside the US Marines' attack. In fact, it was a Challenger 1 tank that recorded the longest tank-on-tank kill shot of just mite OVER 3 MILES!!!
2.) While I mentioned it, the Marines' own nasty tank engagement at the Kuwait International Airport. Mind you, they, the Marines, were using the M-60 MBT as their armored regiments' tank of choice!!! Yet, they blasted ta hell, a good chunk of Iraqi armor. Though, they DID take some heavy losses. (A Marine tanker can correct me on this. As my memory is shoddy on it.)
3.) Our French allies, too, who were guarding the Allies' far left flank, ALSO had engaged Iraqi armor, too.
While this, SOLELY, focus' on American tank battles. If you TRULY wish to tell the story of the final tank battle(s) of the 20th. Century, THEY MUST BE included, too. Otherwise, you're NOT getting the WHOLE, COMPLETE picture of that battle. So, c'mon. Please, get it right. Modify this episode to include those tank actions from the Marines and, our French and, British Allies, too, okay????
What's fair, is fair; what's right, is right!!

Shit I loved þis show when I was younger, it's þe reason I am so interested in tanks today.

they played the right song on speakers, it fits usa.

So we basically did what the Germans did in the Arden’s forest

“Oh nobody will be able to come through that”

Wow very intense scenes.

Imagine being a republican guard on patrol in that one impassable desert area, you hear flight of the valkyries and see a 73 ton abrams jump the sand burm

This show got me obsessed in tanks along with the movie Fury

you do realise that the t72 didnt fire a single shot😂

Imagine now. The Abrams X with advanced control and drone technology.

Ww3 the US is going to end up like this vs their enemies.

I wish gaijin would admit how bad russian tanks are compared to the m1 😂 if you pkay wt youd think abrams are worse than m4 shermans

Found the show that got me into liking tanks. I was probably 8 when I first watched it and thought the panzer 3 was the best tank in existence and could clown anything on earth

Bruh this was biased matchmaking, el cheapo t-72 vs Modern pay2win abrams is not balanced

I served in this Regiment from 2007-2010, and the fellas that fought this battle are still honored at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany.🇺🇸

Poor Bastards didn't have a chance in Hell!

Guderian & Rommel

Whoever that did the sound mix needs a real good resume! I can barely hear what they say over the music from time to time.

Lol that rpg guy was a whole war crime😂