Soviet Tank Commanders Laughed at the Bradley IFV — Until It Knocked Out 30 Armored Vehicles

February 26th, 1991. The Iraqi desert. Soviet military advisers watched confidently as 300+ Republican Guard armored vehicles prepared to ambush a small American cavalry unit. The math was simple: 15 to 1 numerical superiority. The Americans had only 21 vehicles, including 12 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles—aluminum-hulled "death traps" that Congress had called the worst weapon system in US history.
The Soviets had equipped Iraq with export-model T-72 tanks, trained them in Soviet doctrine, and calculated an easy victory. The Bradley, criticized for 17 years and $5.7 billion in development costs, was considered a joke—too light to fight tanks, too vulnerable to survive.
But in 23 minutes of combat, those laughable Bradleys destroyed over 30 Iraqi armored vehicles without losing a single American vehicle. What the Soviets didn't know was that they had sold Iraq deliberately downgraded "monkey model" equipment while the Americans had built something revolutionary.
This is the story of the Battle of 73 Easting—where thermal imaging defeated active infrared, where sensor technology trumped armor thickness, and where a maligned weapon system proved that modern warfare had fundamentally changed.
Discover how aluminum armor survived, how 25mm cannons killed Soviet tanks, and why the most lopsided tank battle since WWII rewrote the rules of armored warfare.

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