Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: dodd@csl.sri.com (Chris Dodd) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: M1 losses in Desert Storm??? Message-ID: <1991Jun29.014616.2859@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 29 Jun 91 01:46:16 GMT References: <1991Jun27.021252.4898@cbnews.cb.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.cb.att.com (william.a.thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Chris Dodd camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu ( James Seymour ) writes: >From earlier posts to sci.military, I was under the impression >that we did not lose any M1's in the war. Was I wrong? Just >what were our losses? According to a briefing I recently attended, 7 M1s were lost in Desert Storm. All 7 were due to side or rear penetrations -- Apparently no Iraqi weapons (including T72s) were capable of penetrating the frontal armor of the M1. An interesting statistic is that no tank crewmembers were killed -- this may be what you heard as `No losses among M1s' Chris Dodd dodd@csl.sri.com [mod.note: Perhaps tanks knocked out but repairable were not counted as losses. With no crewmen killed, it sounds like few if any Abrams were completely destroyed. - Bill ]