Вопрос к Василию Фофанову.
Не могли бы Вы внести ясность - сколько все-таки Абрамсов было потеряно в 1991 г. ?
На сайте FAS : "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"
На USNI Mil.Database : "Of more than 1,950 M1s and M1A1 tanks in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO), only four suffered catastrophic damage and four were damaged but repairable, the Army report stated."
То ли 9 - "permanent losses", то ли 4 - "catastrophic damage"...
P.S. Фото 1991 года (The Army report also noted the T-72s high vulnerability to the M829A1 depleted uranium APFSDS rounds fired by the Abrams, the Iraqi tanks succumbing even when sheltered by 5-foot (1.5-m) thick berms).
Вот это он, похоже, и есть...