I was half right. The Shillelagh missile was never used. The tanks fired 152 MM rounds but not the missile.
Keep up the postings. Always informative and a topic close to my heart.
C19fan wrote: “I was half right. The Shillelagh missile was never used. The tanks fired 152 MM rounds but not the missile.”
You should read the articles you post: “Had the Sheridans been forced into battle, they would have been easy meat for Iraqi tank guns in the open desert. Still, some tank-killing armor was better than none, and the light tanks did see action in the Gulf War, firing around a half-dozen missiles at Iraqi bunkers and destroying a single Type 59 tank. These were the only Shillelaghs ever used in combat out of more than eighty-eight thousand built.”