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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
Subject: Re: When were tanks last used?
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 02:08:13 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

In article <1990Nov20.022355.27811@cbnews.att.com>, carlos@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Carlos Borges) writes:
> From: carlos@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Carlos Borges)
> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:

> >When was the last time a tank, anywhere in the world, fired
> >its gun for real, i.e. =not= in manuevers or for testing?
> 
> I'm sure the Iraqi tanks that stormed Kuwait fired their guns _for real_.


  I'd guess that at least the 82d Abn's M551 Sheridans were used in 
  Panama and fired their guns (as far as the last U.S. engagement).

  When/where was the last tank vs tank battle?  Yom Kippur War?


  mike schmitt