How many abrams destroyed in iraq?

[Philbert]

How many Abrams were destroyed during the main fighting,
ive seen lots of pictures, but most have been different ones of the same tank.

can anyone help me out?

[FallenAngel]

I know there was alot damaged...but many of those damaged were later repaired so they weren't listed as "destroyed"

I know of at at least the one that was disabled during a "thunder run" in Baghdad and was later bombed by the air force to keep it out of Iraqi hands

[Eddie]

There's an interesting article about the M1A1 performance in the website http://www.sftt.org/oif_ll.html

From there you can find a powerpoint presentation of the lessons learned as interpreted by PM Abram’s personel. It doesn't answer your original question but the presentation sure has some interesting photos.

[Kingpin]

Mr. Hackworth insists that:
150 tanks were damaged in battle (and later repaired on field and on the plant)
15 tanks were destroyed
among them 3 were completely destroyed by ATGM hits.

[Kingpin]

But maybe it won’t about another big cover-up, the war’s actual vehicle battle damage:

* 151 mighty Abrams tanks were hit. Most were repaired on the battlefield and rolled back into the fight. Three tanks took catastrophic hits from Russian AT-14 anti-tank missiles supplied by Dubya's barbecue buddy, and 12 others were damaged so badly they ended up in the junkyard.

* 16 Bradley Fighting Vehicles were destroyed, and 35 seriously damaged.

* 23 M-113 armored personnel carriers were melted, and 53 trucks were destroyed.

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?command=viewone&id=15&database=Hacks%20Target%2edb



I suppose he can be wrong about AT-14 because Iraqi had many different older ATs which also capable to do a lot of ****.