Until deployment with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan the Leopard 1 C2 had never seen active combat. On February 20, 2018 Canada attempted to sell the surplus Leopard 1C2 tanks to the Jordanian Armed Forces.

The Abrams was first used in combat in the Persian Gulf War and has seen combat in both the War in Afghanistan and Iraq War under U.S. service, while Iraqi Abrams tanks have seen action in the war against ISIL and have seen use by Saudi Arabia during the Yemeni Civil War.

They fared poorly, however, against modern American armor. In the 1991 Gulf War, Babylon Lions, as Iraq’s T-72 tanks were popularly called, supposedly constituted one of Saddam’s Hussein’s most potent weapons, manned by his elite Republican Army and present in the thousands.

Iraq has received nearly 150 Abrams tanks.

The M1 Abrams, is revered as one of the best tanks in the world, and the U.S. military plans on using this tank for the foreseeable future. I’m going to give this victory to the Leopard 2, as it beats the Abrams in the basics, such armor, weight, and speed.

1: T-14 ARMATA ( Fastest Tank ) It is powered by an 85 3a turbocharged diesel engine that produces 1,200 horsepower. A 12-speed automatic transmission is mated to the engine. The tank has a maximum road speed of 56 miles per hour and a cross-country speed of 37 miles per hour.

During the battle the American forces destroyed 186 Iraqi tanks (mostly T-72Ms, Asad Babils and obsolete Type 69s) and 127 armored vehicles. Only four Abrams tanks were hit by direct fire. Evidence suggests that some of them were hit by Iraqi T-72 fire.

1000 T-72s
Active service. In all, Iraq had about 1000 T-72s, M, M1, and the locally assembled Saddams and Asad Babils on the eve of the invasion of Kuwait. After 2003, their numbers had dwindled to 375, and only 125 are listed in the new Iraqi Army, but they about to be pushed to the scrapyard or used for target practice.

How much functioning military equipment did Iraq’s army have? Iraq was thought to have between 1,800 and 2,000 tanks in working order, compared with at least 5,500 before the 1991 Gulf War. About 700 tanks were thought to be relatively capable Soviet T-72’s, but they were outmatched by U.S. equipment.

Yes, that is fast for a tank. The Leopard 2 also has 800mm thick armor on its front, and variants of the 2 have armor as thick as 1,500mm. When the M1 finally saw action in 1991, it destroyed over 2,000 Iraqi tanks without a single Abrams being lost to enemy fire, according to Cowper and Pannell.

It is estimated that 16 L3s were purchased by Iraq from Italy before World War II. On 22 March 1941, two of these Iraqi L3s were reported to have been put out of action near Fallujah during the Anglo-Iraqi War.

Iranian Karrar tank. Tanks have been utilized in Iran both within the military and within several conflicts with their usage and origin after World War II; the Cold War; and the modern era. This includes British designs imported after World War II, and American and imported Soviet tanks and those from China as well.

This includes imported Soviet tanks as well as British designs imported after World War II, and current American ones. Iraq originally had tanks from Italy which were involved in the Anglo-Iraqi War when two mechanised battalions, with a number of L3/35 light tanks surrounded the British at RAF Habbaniya.

The modest differences between the two Western tanks reveal different national philosophies. The Abrams has a noisy 1,500-horsepower gas-guzzling turbine, which starts up more rapidly, while the Leopard 2’s diesel motor grants it greater range before refueling.