The Last Great Tank Battle in History
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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It’s the final days of Operation Desert Storm. The Second Armored Cavalry Regiment is unknowingly moving into a village occupied by the Tawakalna Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard. The U.S. unit is smaller and carries less equipment than those of their enemies. They’re unfamiliar with the ground and unaware of the Iraqi forces that are positioned to attack them. Everything seems to be set against the Regiment during the Battle of 73 Easting.
But the Iraqi forces have taken the U.S. for granted. It takes the Regiment only 23 minutes to wipe them out in what is considered one of the greatest and last tank battles of the 20th century. The battle not only helped demonstrate the superiority of American military technology and strategy but also led leaders of the world to think that the U.S military is indestructible...
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Hello bro I love your videos ,
Please make a video on India and Pakistan fought on land of chiwanda
Been a fan of your channel for quite some time now. Your style, both in narrating and production is top notch. Im all for you evolving, and getting better, but please know you are doing some pretty perfect work here. I cant ever shake this feeling that you are telling me the most legit secret in the history of ever. Dont lose that. :-) And thanks again.
Thanks for covering Dark Docs! If anyone want to see more, here’s a great documentary of 73 Easting: ua-cam.com/video/tJNk7DcFIkk/v-deo.html
Iraq: "We are the 4th largest army in the world!"
America: *Invades Iraq* "Well buddy... Now you're the 2nd largest army in Iraq."
Make that 3rd Britain just invaded
@@boomeranglord3035 I think Iraq was bigger than the UK armed forces. Iraq had 1.1-1.4 Million armed personnel and the UK had around 350-400K troops.
Just The distance between 2nd and 4th is stupid. But from 1st to 4th 🤣.
And that's just numbers let's not get into actual capabilities
@@CaliPlays5651 UK was also way better trained. Lots of the iraqis were literally starving.
If you reversed the equipment, its likely that the Iraqi's would still have lost. The use of noncoms and quality of the officer core is just so much worse. The Iraqi soldier when properly lead is a beast on the battlefield.
One thing that was failed to be mentioned was the main cannon RANGE of the Abrams vs the Iraqi (Russian) tanks. Yes, we had depleted uranium and GPS. But the RANGE combined with the superior auto stabilization made a drastic difference. - Point is, at 73 Easting for example, the Iraqi T72 tanks were entrenched, sometimes in classic, soviet era doctrine, of ‘coils’ but when the US blitzed them, they simply couldn’t ‘uncoil’ and react fast enough - especially when outranged.
“Last great tank battle in history”
73 EASTING LETS GO
I ETS'd feb '89 from 1/2 Armored Cav Reg. Just missed it.
(Edit) - in addition to this great info here, I'd like to add that the reason the regiment was so successful was all those years of training in Graf, Hohenfelds and the Wild Chicken aka wildflecken Germany. If you were a Tanker in the 70's and 80's in Germany you spent 7 months a year in the field traing or doing border surveilance. That Regiment was sent because they literally were the highest trained and best outfitted Regiment in the world. That Regiment had not left their previous assignment since the end of WWII, They would not have even been available to, if the wall coming down didnt remove their 40+ year purpose in Europe. Toujours Pret
Medina Ridge....
@@CDAT1AD 3/35 Armor at the time. THey have no idea....
@kat uwu Well if we didnt, im damn sure we walked the same paths and hallways.
HAH Jamesons Travels!!
I really like the change you've made of not reading the title cards now. Letting them hang with no VO gives them weight and builds an anticipation in the audience's mind for the next segment.
I’m addicted to this channel. Keep em coming
SAME. he sounds so.... certain About everything he says. Even in ads. Maybe certain isn't the right word, idk.
@@toastedorange9106 And his voice isn't annoying.
i just wish he would use relevant video footage and pictures for his words
SAME.
This and Mark Felton.
@@toastedorange9106
Precise maybe ?
Preventing hair loss never sounded so ominous. 😱
It took many years but eventually I learned that Sadam was trying to get the middle east away from trading oil in dollars. He could have forced the issue had he been able to take control of enough of the production. Saudis knew they were next on his list.
Same thing in Libya with Gaddafi, that's why he was taken out, he was moving away from petro dollars to a gold backed currency and we couldn't have that
No dummy. He wanted to take over oil production in middle east and expand iraq’s territory into iran and kuwait which he failed miserably. Iraq was also facing many social issues under his regime and he wasn’t liked by many iraqi citizens and he has done many atrocities throughout his rule most notably chemical attacks in Iran and Kurdistan and viewed by some as Hitler in the middle east from his anti kurdish and iranian sentiments and even committed genocide on the kurdish people
@@orangecat3021 that was just an excuse, do you really think we invaded cuz we care so much about him killing kurds, do your research, it was all about the petro dollar
Lorralee Opperman tell that to my kurdish friend whose grandparents fled from kurdistan under saddams regime
@@judecmcsgamingsurvivalchan9531 *feelings
What was left unsaid is the fact the iraqi tank divisions (some not all) was left to use practice rounds as the main offensive munition in the soviet T-72 tanks by command. Many did surrender abandoning the outgunned tanks
This wasn't a battle, it was a slaughter.
American Military Tank Division: Forward men!
Iraq Military: These mines will stop them boys!
American Military Tank Division With Anti-Mine treads/Explosive Resistance Treads: What was that bump men? "We dont know sir, maybe a dog?!
Iraq Military: Well Crap, Retreat!
Only a fool would state that this is the "Last Great Tank Battle in History". That "Last Battle" has yet to be fought.
I wonder if the military will ever release footage of 73 easting
There hardly is footage
@@Mungobohne1 yes i know but thats for the public. The pentagon surely has video of the tanks gun cam destroying tanks or the im not sure if its infrared or something but i know those camera record just like in jets since a long time ago
@@dopplerhit8374 No shit
@@dopplerhit8374 This was in 1991. There were few to no gun cams in tanks.
No gun cams. Only secret filming was whatever hasn't been released by any of the troops that ere there. Not a lot of can corder's going around then.
The Bradley has a 25mm chain gun. Not a cannon. I spent 6 years behind the guns of the Bradley. The tech has come a long way since this battle. I honestly don’t know how they did it back then with their horrible targeting systems.
@Dark Docs please do a video on the Bosnian War and the Falklands War
As an Ex Australian Army Infantry Solider, I will state that you can not beat proper and expert training.
I think there are more recent significant tank battles in Europe - in former Yugoslavia, Georgia and Ukraine.
finally a docs channel that doesn't insult my intelligence by speaking so slowly that I have to watch on 1.5x
12:46 Great advice
Nice live action of the battlefield 3 thunder run mission
"Asymmetrically, and stupid" We'd best be looking after the former.
In modern parlance, also coincidentally coined by the Americans, the former tactic is synonymous with "shock and awe." Only the Russians and Chinese are likely to meet the Americans and have an equally-matched battle in the next 50 years or so, which is why there's no takers on that. Every keyboard warrior and magazine writer asks for the Ruskies' hardware to match up against the Americans' to see who would win head-to-head. In places like Iraq, that didn't happen because the Russian tanks they had were old and obsolete. They had the heat signature of a bonfire. Newer designs are more like a candle, and the TOW missile's dominance in Iraq just accelerated that particular counter-measure. (Armor plating is another.)
The only way to counter asymmetric warfare is to kill everyone and destroy everything. America lacks the constitution to do so.
@@DarkMatterX1 We'd better re-think that.
@@StsFiveOneLima
Agreed. Our current adversary has no compunction about doing so.
Wow took em less than 30 minutes to kill a whole tank regiment
Make pattern baldness is the biggest struggle men go through kinda I guess
Awesome video. Where do you get your music from?
Medina Ridge... just saying.
My favorite battle
13 minutes of history
my guy slow ur speech down stressin me out over here
Playback speed .75 my fren. Makes life better with the Dark Docs.
your*
@@alexander1485 you're*
@Pronator Tendon *flips hair* "touche"
I spent 9 months in that miserable part of the world with the 11Th ACR.
Desert storm. Nice
Brand new Iraqi AK, unfired, only dropped once...
A minor skirmish compared to the tank battles of WW2
7:07 - "February 26 1991" that's the day i was Born.
4th largest army in the world is a joke because after the 3rd there was a HUGE gap in size xD
Super Powers are scary like that sometimes.
McMaster was the worst-looking 28 year old in the history of humanity; 2:53
USA Battle Rating 10.3 vs. Iraqi Battle Rating 9.3....
Now do Seattle
This is awesome merica
The 4th best army in the world brought to their knees in 57 days
Republican guard: “perfect, they just entered the mine field. That’ll chew up their tanks”
Eagle troop: “what about no”
Yeah, not to mention the 2 1/2" of extra front plating we quickly welded on at the Port. Was a 24 hour assembly line complete with the upgraded GPS. Was BADASS we saw Gen Powell there. Stopped for his quick convoy to arrive and looked over Contractor operation. Then we all pumped up more and continued the conversions. Heck, I can still smell that fresh CRC sand paint!!! And looking around all those Patriot batteries Setup all over.
popcorn go pop pop!
2 ways to fight the US Army,asymmetrical & STUPID.
@@MarcosLopez-yz2wr That's wild. I was about 4-5 years old when that was all happening. I do remember hearing about it all and seeing footage on the news though. My dad was about the right age for this - he tried to join as a mechanic/truck driver around this time or shortly before but he had DWIs and they wouldn't let him. I tried to join in 2007, but I was too fat lmao - but only by like 2 pounds. It's kind of weird - several guys got in who couldn't even do push-ups/chin-ups/sit-ups/crab walk/bear crawl/etc - the people at MEPS testing us had to help them - I was a couple of pounds overweight but I was in pretty good shape and could run circles around these guys. My mom was at home bawling her eyes out and praying that I didn't get in. Maybe it was for the best.. Would have saved me from a crappy, failed 8 year marriage if I'd have gotten in though - as I met my first wife a few weeks afterward. I went to MEPS with a friend and he got in that day. He volunteered to go to Afghanistan and he was a changed man when he got back - in good ways and bad ways. Sorry. That was long. I just took my medicine and I'm very talkative/typative.
2:30 me and the bois playing with thumbtacks
Worst enemy the US had in Desert Storm was the Diet Colas left out in the sun.
Ya l heard a lot of complaints about IED's
@Misanthropic Trilobite Such an idiotic comment. Only fools who have never fought in a war think like you.
@33kaus holokaust Even worse than Pakistanis?
@@jarink1 Roger that! Being in War, adrenaline pumping, too hyped to sleep, & yeah everyone scared but you survive by gunning ho! Was really worried that Israel were gonna launch nukes while we were there since they received scud attacks.
@@graham2631 wrong war, learn some history before you comment.
As a young tanker in 2020, this is all we hear about. We go over this battle and the tactics so damn much lol
Then your learning good stuff.
Get some.
What's the training like?
I got meps on this coming tuesday and this is the mos I'm considering
Time well spent.
*You can help by expanding the list*
WELP
OUCH
Lmao Wikipedia article
*BET*
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_t-72M Gulf war_
So in other words
Iraq “ha we got em boys”
Usa “oh what a mild inconvenience “
"What a mild inconvenience"
2 decades later.....
33kaus holokaust wow
I think he means thats even now, iraq can’t really do too much
A-10 : heheuehe friendly fire ehaehheheheh
I remember watching a show called Greatest Tank Battles and they had a episode on this. After the battle they captured some Iraqi’s and stuck them in the back of the Bradley and they had a picture of Ewrin Rommel on the door and in perfect English their commander asked “why do you have a picture of your WW2 adversary” and a soldier said “why don’t you shut the hell up, if you read more about him maybe you wouldn’t be sitting in the back of our tank”
ua-cam.com/video/tJNk7DcFIkk/v-deo.html if anyone wants to watch the episode here it is
r marky it’s been awhile since I’ve watched it but good catch
Rommel got beat in North Africa 🤨. Sure, he had some successes at first. But ultimately he failed.
@@billbrasky6827 He lost due to many factors including some strategic failures but Rommel was outdone with equipment and the allies could deliver many more men and tanks into North Africa :)
@@billbrasky6827 He was defeated, but not because he failed
My Father was in this battle. SGT Montalvo, He was a 19D in a Bradley Scouting enemy positions. His buddy was killed by a BMP. i remember him telling me that they had to cross a minefield. He also told me how he fired a TOW missile at a T-55. Later after the battle they took Prisoners and they where handing him wads of money with Sadam's face on it. Freshly printed bills. He took the money and threw it back in their faces lol. He was given a painting of the battle by a famous painter idk his name but it is a nice painting.
Badass
Man thats awesome to know someone from this battle. I envy armored warfare. Than him for his service
Sounds like a great man.
@@J-Kabar you envy any form of warfare? you been playing battlefield?
@@J-Kabar No warfare should be envied upon.
Muhammad: “we have you outnumbered 4:1”
McMaster: “then it is an even fight”
More like "lol, bring more tanks next time"
*FINISH THE FIGHT INTENSIFIES*
Fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides!
Muhammad: “we have you outnumbered 4:1”
McMaster: "not for long, loser."
NO YOU CANT JUST USE THERMAL IMAGEING TO SPOT US WHEN YOU CANT -t 72 comander
haha thermal imaging goes brrrrr
"Ha ha Thermal go brr"- US M1A1 Abrams Gunner
Haha a-10 go brrr
Iraqi T-72s lack thermal imaging because they're export models
Haha 50 cal. goes brrrrr
*(M3 Bradley hits turret of T72 IRL)*
M3 Bradley: Too Easy. Target destroyed.
*(M3 Bradley hits turret of T72 in War Thunder)*
T-72: is someone throwing rocks at us, Ivan?
Bradley never met T-72 IRL, it met T-72M and Lyon of Babylon. Both are significantly worse then what Russian T-72B was. They did manage to kill Chieftans and Pattons without issues thou.
Thillith IRL meant in real life
@@westonschultz9847 I know what it means, which is why I said what I said
Thillith nvm I understand what you mean
I got in a big argument online about War Thunder. I said I didn't like how they made opposing tanks equivalent. You upgrade to a Tiger and all it accomplishes is you move slower. Better to keep a Panzer 3, since the armor makes no difference. I had hundreds of people commenting, bitching, calling me a Wheraboo, saying War Thunder was historically accurate. I finally posted a video of a Maus in War Thunder being destroyed by a .50cal machine gun to it's frontal armor. That finally silenced most of them.
"Depleted uranium high explosive" (10:00 point) No such round exists. A depleted uranium projectile is not also high explosive. The DU round does its damage by being very hard and going very fast, no explosives involved.
It's probably a poorly worded explanation of the tendency for DU rounds to voilently fragment and burst into flames once they pass through armour. Definitely not high explosive but certainly not inert.
Much more gruesome than a high explosive. I would not want to die by having my lungs sucked out of my mouth. Inside out and broiled. Yuk.
he said depleted uranium,high explosive and armor piercing rounds. atleast i think that is what he meant
@@Mister_Rat_ armor piercing is what depleted uranium rounds are for, that's their purpose
No there's a coma in there he says Depleted Uranium , HE and AP rounds
Still can't believe that the homemade Iraq tanks had armour made from sheet metal and had no air conditioning.
Who thought that was a good idea?
The Iraqi armed forces.
Well they were against a 500 billion dollar army. Gotta do something I guess.
We sent early gen MiG-29s without functioning radars against then last gen F-16s. You do stuff like that when you defend your own country
When your country is invaded you do the best you can with what you got. Though they did start the fight so I dont feel too bad for them.
The Abrams didnt have AC either
Its weird hearing an ad in your voice...
Ya no shit lol
This guy went from creating some of the creepiest videos on UA-cam to advertising baldness treatment.
Honestly, this channel started to go downhill ever since he made his first voice over video.
@@cobblebrick I still love this channel. And doing an in-video ad is ok with me. Just funny and weird with that voice of his.
@@cobblebrick can't stand his voice
The US: 9 tanks 140 troops and 2 trucks
Vs Iraq
Lost: 30 tanks 30 trucks 1000 troops
(The US lost 12 troops)
@Karthik S prakash that’s called a high kd
And 1 Bradley lost
...and US losses were from friendly fire.
@@prfwrx2497 1 Bradley was taken out by a BMP, or perhaps it was just a single casualty suffered during the engagement. I cannot quite remember
@@devonbustard1623 I was talking about them M1 mbts, I'm sure some Bradley's got punked by incoming fire.
The MBT got their engine fucked in a blue on blue.
I was in high school, roughly 16yo during this. It’s weird how old the footage looks. It was the first war watched in real time. No one slept due to the time difference, we were all glued to our tv’s. Many of us rushed to join the military once we could.
Propaganda!
@@linger0740 how so
While we’re on the subject of the First Gulf War, perhaps the Battle of Khafji? If I recall correctly it was one of the few, if only, offensive operations by the Iraqis into an active Coalition country. I just think it would make for an interesting video.
Keep up the good work, love all your content on all your channels!
Roger that!
Khafji!!!
It was asymmetrical warfare ... no great battles happened in that war.
Damn , just recalling. We heard about Khafji both on net comms and on Armed Forces Radio. So much chatter through the 24 hr period. Was being told , Hold the Line. Air campaign flexing that way and stand overwatch in case it Turns Our way! Right then, all thinking. Battle, skirmish, police action, it's STILL a war with REAL rounds flying both large and small.
US Marines stayed on rooftops with Iraqi troops below them and called for fire, often right on top of themselves.
The whole story (title is meh, but comprehensive article): usmclife.com/this-is-the-marine-corps-version-of-the-daring-escape-from-black-hawk-down/
Dam 23 min lol they could have watched this episode twice
Speed is king in war lol
I remembered reading the intel in the S2's office back then. We had EVERYTHING translated. I had access to enemy commander's names at specific locations.
I can't believe bruce jenner served in operation desert storm. American hero. Thank you for your bravery on and off the battlefield
Imagine how it would've been as the Iraqi soldier, hearing from your fellow soldiers that the enemies are unstoppable.
*McMaster gets ambushed*
Mc Master: Oh no.... Anyway
It’s like that meme of that Abrams getting hit by an RPG and the Abrams turret justs instantly faces the camera that was recording it
I remember my drill Sergeant telling us about being in this battle, he was injured when his vehicle was hit.
with friendly fire?
@@rodneyhull9764 no we took casualties and people were injured vehicles lost
@@rodneyhull9764 no one of our rounds went clean through an enemy vehicle and they got back in it and fired upon a Bradley
@Misanthropic Trilobite well we can't all live in our mothers basement being keyboard warriors like yourself. I suppose a brave man like yourself would put Saddam in time out for invading Kuwait?
This was not a “battle “. Kursk was a battle, this was an “engagement”.
Nope, this was not an engagement. It was a route.
Paul Le Mars Go to a knife fight, but your adversary thought you said gun fight.
Julian No we invaded Panama after Grenada genius
More like a slaughter
@Julian No Yeah, then pics arrived to show the highway of death. And that stopped the mad Rush to Baghdad!!???
McMasters was not the Regimental commander. He was commander of Eagle Troop. His Troop made the first contact.
Many honorable men and women attempted to properly steer trump in the right direction and counsel him to make the right decisions. Those actions were against what putin wanted and what trump desired.
Now all the "guard rails" are gone, and we will soon have over 200K dead Americans because of trump's incompetence.
McMaster, Kelly and Mattis weren't suckers or losers - they ARE true American patriots.
No worries though. Karma is knocking on trump's door.
John Matrix thanks for sharing your stupidity with us.... you’re so brave
@@mikecooper8462 "and we will soon have over 200K dead Americans because of trump's incompetence."
You talking about covid? If so, I don't understand why you claim it is Trump's incompetence that cause that many dead. We mass produced ventilators as soon as possible, and in the early days of covid it was the democrats who were downplaying it. We would have comparable amounts of dead if Hillary was president.
Also considering that we have a lower covid deaths per capita than the UK, a country with Universal Healthcare; I find much of the criticism of Trump on covid mind boggling.
@@mikecooper8462 lol right....
@@josephburchanowski4636 the delay in acting to properly mitigate the virus is the main cause of deaths. The spread of the virus is exponential. Drs. Fauci and Redlener stated this numerous times. A 2 week delay caused 30K deaths.
I take you don't read a newspaper or watch a [credible] news outlet.
“The US deployed 20,000 troops”? No. It was a lot more than that.
I think he was referring to the division that took part in the battle
Overall over 500,000.
@slayer snake I think you might be over estimating there bud. From what you can find online there were just under a million coalition units deployed throughout the entirety of the Gulf War, 650,000 of those being U.S. military personnel. I don't know where you're getting your information from but you should fact check what your saying before you spout misinformation. This is how stupid people are created
I remember one of our divisions were pumped up to that size. We got attached to the 3rd Amormed Division and their number was right around 19,000 to 20,000 troops. I remember this because I grew up on the Canadian border and I believe there whole Canadian "regular" Army was that size.
@@lordfarquaad5358 Of the U.S. forces deployed to Desert Shield / Desert Storm you have to remember that those numbers included not only the Army but also Marine Corps units both at sea in the Gulf (about a full division of personnel and vehicles being held aboard 30 assault ships) and another moving up the coast ashore from Saudi Arabia into Kuwait, plus Navy and Air Force. Nearly everything that the U.S. military could spare from other theaters was deployed to 'The Sandbox.'
Thank you for doing this episode!!! I served under Col. H.R. McMaster in 2005-2006 in Iraq! He was an incredible leader!
I was the 1SG for Eagle Troop, 2/2 with him
McMaster's was an awesome guy! ... and funny as hell! I met him in Riyadh at the Compound condos. That was the place inter city for troops R and R. (I was the desk admin for troops transfers to the city.
Gulf War vet 1990-91.)
73 Easting wasn't a battle, it was a turkey shoot. Those T-72s, which were pretty much the AK-47 of tanks, were food on the table.
The Mother of all surrenders.
Then you don't Pakistanis surrender in 1971 93000 soldiers surrendered
@@AdityaKumar_2001 1971
@@AdityaKumar_2001
Finally freeing over seventy million Bengali civilians, allowing them to experience true independence.
*NABA SPARSHAM DEEPTAM* for all my Indian Air force brothers in arms 🇬🇧🇮🇳
I mean can you blame them? Our tanks are insane, hell even our APCs whose sole purpose is to TRANSPORT troops were just rolling through the minefields.
Bradley: hits mine "Oh no... anyway."
Abrams tank: Anyway so I started blasting
And they bully France for surrendering in WW2, ATLEAST they fought to the end and they still fighting After loosing Paris
10:35 imagine spending all the time and money for 3 tanks to get destroyed in 10 seconds 🤣
Lmao he makes a slaughter sound like a underdog story.
It's been just under 30 years ago. I was in the 1st ID and remember a lot of Desert Storm like it was yesterday. Not all of those memories are pleasant.
It’s been 17 years for me since Iraq. I remember. I can still see, hear and smell things from there like it was just yesterday. I remember everything about it. I remember where everything was and everyone’s faces and their voices and conversations. I remember how many steps it was to the dfac and latrine. I literally think of it every day. It drives me insane sometimes. I do the dumbest shit out here in the civilian world because of it. I just try to stay at home most of the time.
@@u.s.militia7682 Buy a dirt bike. You'll be so busy repairing it, the mind wont wander. I'm serious, takes total concentration to race it, get the woods model not the motocross model.
@@SuperChuckRaney weird you mention bikes. I told my wife I wanted one but I’m afraid I’ll take off and never come back. I did it for over a year when I ETS’sd. Was a helluva adventure. Virginia to Nova Scotia to Kentucky to Alaska to Virginia.
I was in 1st Engineer Batt
It’s not a tank battle, it was a slaughter house, the Iraqi with 70s equipment with no aerial support vs USA modern equipment and better training i feel bad for the poor Iraqi soldiers
Victor Grech they’re my brothers of course i feel bad for them
Well. War isn’t fair
@@bedouinknight9437 do you feel sorry about the destruction those Iraqi soldiers did to Kuwait and their people?
Not all the iraqis are bad, some were just doing their job. Im with the gret arabian knight on this one
@Victor Grech this case Saddam is the bad guy,Iraqi troops ia brainwashed and doing their jobs.
My Dad was there, he was a gunner on a M1.
Your dad done good.
Get checked for cancer...
@@robotitovysvetli193 He already had throat cancer. He gets a pretty good disability check from the VA now between that and the tinnitus
My dad was EOD in gulf war. He said he knew a few tank gunners there is a chance he knew your dad...
When we rolled onto the battlefield & captured some of the Iraq soldiers & put them in are tanks or personal vehicles are Soldiers had a Picture of Rommel in there vehicle & when one of the Iraq soldiers asked a U.S. soldier why do we have a Picture of Rommel in are tanks that wasn’t he your enemy in WWII are U.S. soldier reply yes but where do you think we get are tank training from (ROMMEL) we use the tank tactics from his style of tank warfare that’s why we could wipe you out so fast . TRUE STORY.
LMFAO, BADASS 😎 military history lesson
Panzer battalion
Our
basically the US version of Blitzkrieg.
I’m the words of Russian Badger: “M1A1 Muh Freebrams”
Saddam explicitly forbade his commanders at every level from exercising initiative and using the manoeuvring tactics that is armored warfare at its core(except in a few incidents). He did so on pain of them being executed. He feared the army rising against him so he kept mostly yes men in charge and kept an atmosphere of 'oh this is what our leader wants' not what was realistically possible. Most tyrants exercise the same M.O.
30 years later I’m still at awe watching those M1s gliding over the desert. So cool.
Lol mcmaster said Trump is the dumbest person he ever met
73 was a turkey shoot, I keep finding videos dramatizing what was essentially tanks from the future making a junk yard in the desert out of some outdated Russian sell-off Cold War tanks. The US Owned the Iraqis, and lost one guy, and that was by a fluke. There was no "Tank battle."
This wasn't even a battle, this was a massacres.
I was born in 1986 but I'm old enough to remember the night vision footage of the tracer rounds being fired on the news. I remember not understanding wtf was going on - why everything was green, why the bullets were glowing, what they were fighting over, etc - but it's something I'll never forget. Seems like I recently saw that exact footage again - or something extremely similar.
3/20 FA... we shot support for this... VII Corp Artillery!
2/1 FA FIST., attached to 4/70 Armor. 2nd Brigade, 1st Armor Division, VII Corp. Medina Ridge.
Toujours Pret! Always Ready! I was there with the 2ACR.
Yo! 2-2 Cav From Bamberg Germany?! HOLY shit! Be safe bro and God bless 🙏
88 Mike If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t shit! C-Trp 1/2 ACR, 1st Platoon. I was there to.
@@mancaveveteran4975 Why would anyone *want* to be shit? LOL I was there with 1st ID A Co. 101st MI Bn. (Yes, I've heard all the jokes.)
Right down the road at Ponder Barracks Nurnberg, . HHB 2/1 FA Fist, attached to 4/70 Armor out of Erlangen.
I served under McMaster with 3rd ACR and he even asked me to be a member of his tank crew! He's a true warrior in EVERY sense of the word.
Finally, a topic I remember happening.
At that time the Officer Advance Course was held at Ft Knox Kentucky. It didn't move to Ft Benning until much later.
By tank battle you mean the great Iraqi seal clubbing
if i remember correctly according to one crew member of one of the Abrams tanks there every tank they hit went up in flames and the mantlet (turret) of the enemy tanks went flying into the air
This is true,I was a Abrams tank gunner there.
Man i love this channel!
It absolutely makes my day when i see dark docs in my notifications!
By far my favoite channel on youtube!!
Great stuff keep it coming!!
actually our Regimental commander at that time was Col Holder! Capt Macmasters was a Troop commander at that time! i was a liasion driver in 3rd squadron during Desert Storm
whats more incredible is that the t-72s actually were a threat to the m1s, the t-72's main gun can knock out an m1, what the t-72's lacked was modern scopes and NFE. this is hard proof that guns and armour don't win wars alone, small equipment like scopes and NFE allow you to hit the enemy when he can't even see you.
The T-72s Iraq was using shouldn't even really be called a T-72
You should do one on the actual last great tank battle in history. Valley of Tears 1973.
Centurion boss tank.
I was only thinking the other day about how the Gulf War was also the last large-scale conventional war in general.
For those who want to see a few stories from the ground during this battle. Type in greatest tank battles 73 eastings. You'll see a few videos on it about 44 minutes long that are pretty awesome and has stories from the men on the ground
I wonder how the fight would've been if the Iraqis had more modern tanks like the T90. They'd probably still lose, but it would be a lot more interesting.
Not really, in my opinion. American air, logistical, tactical, communications, strategic superiority was so huge. I think if the iraqis had had m1 abrams the result would have been really similar. In the gulf war, the american ground forces were just fighting scattered, isolated, starving, thirsty and demoralized units of the iraqi army, which was practically destroyed by the air campaign.
How it was a battle? Iraq tanks even didn't shot!? It was the first real dummy drill in the history!
@@pedroperez6676 a "fair" fight was never going to happen, what with coalition complete air superiority. don't you think the A-10s and others would not whittle down what Iraq could muster?
@@BigSkyCurmudgeon Of course I do think so. That was precisely my point.
@@pedroperez6676 you deleted a comment! i was replying to something made by you, but is not visible now.
Imagine if the Germans had a few hundred Abrams tanks when they invaded Russia.
weirdshibainu they still would have outrun their supply line...only faster.
@@williamsimmons152 I understand that. Just an idle speculation.
The US Forces actually used Erwin Rommel's tactics during the Battle.
Wouldn't really change anything, russia could easily destroy them plus germany doesnt really need Abrams tanks bc their leopards already perform really well
weirdshibainu Well, just like the nazi wonder weapons, they were useless without proper supply lines and trained personell to mantain such complex machines. An A1 would’ve been quite OP for them, but again, that would’ve been just another drop in the ocean. Not only that the german supply lines were stretched, the fact that they had so many different types of cars, trucks, tanks etc. from Opel to Renault, made it a nightmare to mantain them.
There was one very, very important thing in the armored cav’s favor among others: the Abrams. The Iraqi tanks, although they could have been updated to compete with the Abrams, were still almost the same as they were when they were new. The Abrams, with its powerful engine, heavy frontal armor, and accurate and powerful gun gave it an enormous advantage over the older Iraqi tanks, and the supporting elements of allied forces gave them an even better advantage
And in the end, the little Bradley scores most of the tank kills.
Hooah.
The US fights only bad military-okay okay let me specify-from the 1950 on-Korea,Vietnam,…Afghanistan-they fought t55s-yep WW II years tanks apfsd against normal tank grenades-underdeveloped military
This is rough because they keep using Regiment/Squadron/Troop interchangeably. At the time Captain McMaster was in command of a Troop, a company size unit. Not the entire regiment.
Daaaamn dude. This is so good. Can you do me a favor and record the A-Team theme? "In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison..."
My dad's history professor at West point fought in that battle. Said that he cussed his driver out for hitting so many boulders, but when they exited their tank after the battle there was 3 shells in the front armor sticking out like a "porcupine"
The narrator talk faster than the battle itself
I learned that if you put the speed to .75, the narrator sounds drunk but at least he isn't talking like the guy in the old FedEx commercials.
Imagine going through all of this to finally become national security adviser, only to have it ripped away because the media doesn’t like trump.
How does the media have anything to do with him leaving? Trump dismissed him because McMaster and Trump disagreed on foreign policy with Russia, Korea and Iran, likely due to Trump wanting to go easy on the former and hard on the latter. McMaster even publically called Trump "a dope", which is about as diplomatic a way you can call someone a massive dipshit as possible.
@@cplpuddingpop Trump wanted to go soooooo easy on Russia, right? What happened with that whole Russia collusion thing?
Trump: I'd like to appoint you NSA to carry out my foreign policy.
McMaster: Thanks, but I'll be making up my own policy.
Trump: Bye.
@@cplpuddingpop McMaster now realized he was the dope, he’s making videos about how the CCP is waging a new Cold War and must be contained, while Russia must be split from the CCP