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After the 1 a graveya mored ve dotted thi revealed tanks wit1 Page 13), after ragi - At hundreds of locations in the featureless desert, the tions were little more than halfdug graves for fighting and crews that had been abandoned by their leaders vehicles were almost new: the T-72 track at far right hi spots of the track - the road wheels were barely worr several hundred kilometers of use. The illumination dc some T-72 turrets, was intended to spoof antitank mis 26 ARMOR - May-June 7997

L!d air and ground assault, the desert was of black hulks. Dug-in Iraqi tanks and arles, some charred beyond identification, at, brilliant landscape. A helicopter tour rned-out hulls, tanks without turrets, heir turrets upside down in place (see d others that had settled on their bellies heat softened their steel suspension parts (above right). On-scene observers talked about sabot shots that penetrated sand berms to kill, or passed through both sides of a turret, or plowed through the tank, driving the powerpacks out the rear of the hull. In some cases, killing shots set off immediate secondary explosions; in other cases, gunners who had scored direct turret hits didn't know it - they followed sabot shots with HEAT to make sure. tarve and die. Many of the Year only on the high Id odometers showed only eat lower right, found on S, such as the TOW. ARMOR - May-June 7997 27