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Thanks for the link. At the bottom it says:

During the Gulf War only 18 Abrams tanks were taken out of service due to battle damage: nine were permanent losses, and another nine suffered repairable damage, mostly from mines. Not a single Abrams crewman was lost in the conflict. There were few reports of mechanical failure. US armor commanders maintained an unprecedented 90% operational readiness for their Abrams Main Battle Tanks.

What a relief. I always wondered how they held up. Nearly lost my job when I went over heads and reported directly to mil-spec about certain procedures not being done properly on the line. Mil-spec checked and shut the line down. Needless to say the company was NOT happy with me, and labled me a troublemaker.

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I been most of the Abrahams (if not all) that were total losses were taken out by friendly fire, such as Apache helicopters shooting at the wrong target.

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My pleasure. And thanks for speaking up about the problem. That very well could have saved some lives.