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JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

I thought this would be the best place to ask if anyone can help me out with a project in need of a few pics!

'Tanks!

Jeff

Dontos

Here's A Type 69,....still looking around....

Title: Tank Graffiti in Kuwait
A disabled Iraqi tank (Chinese-made T-69) is scrawled with an apparent U.S. soldier's name, but it remains unknown if he was from 3AD.

Web link: Third AR DIV Website

Don

Jens_O_Mehner

Jeff,

would these be of any help?

Cheers,

Jens O.

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Thanks guys! I appreciate the help!

Jeff

JimWeb

I suppose they are destroyed tanks but definately not Type 59... all so far are Type 69. The only Type 59 with the headlights on the catwalk/fenders is the Type 59D.

Images of destroyed iraqi Type 59 are hard to find!

Attached is an image from the CD I produced of destroyed & abandoned Iraqi Equipment - yes its a Type 69 again!

Cool

Jens_O_Mehner

Shoot Jim,

you're right, should teach me to keep my brain focussed

Did a quick check of some references, all of them stated Iraq purchased only Type 69s from China in 1982/83- could it be they didn't have any T-59s at all?

Cheers,

Jens O.

JimWeb

They definately had some...

Cool

Jens_O_Mehner

Indeed,

seems like they received 700 of one type and 800 of the other, Bovington's being an example captured in theatre 1991 and later modified with a 105, Baumholder supposedly has another one in the museum.

Never seen one back in '91, only T-59, -62 and -72, but then the ones in the Valley of Death were pretty much unrecognizable or unapproachable due to unexploded ordnance and IEDs, and I haven't been to every enemy vehicle collection point in theatre... And boy, that T-72 was a tight fit for my 6'6", and those BMPs were enough to make you claustrophobic.

Cheers,

Jens O.

LeeW · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 26, 2006 Posts: 61

Could they have lost most of them (the 59s) in ODS?

JimWeb

- Jens_O_Mehner

And boy, that T-72 was a tight fit for my 6'6", and those BMPs were enough to make you claustrophobic.

I once got stuck in the drivers hatch of a T-62 and boy was that embarressing . Crying or Very sad

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