Images of T-90MS MBT being deliverd to Iraq

[BHarwana]

First images of Russian T-90MS Main Battle Tank being delivered to Iraq.

 

[Nahid]

wow.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Best tank in the world. Russian engineering at its finest.

 

[Maarkhoor]

First images of Russian T-90MS Main Battle Tank being delivered to Iraq.

Source of these pictures?

 

[BHarwana]

Source of these pictures?

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[HannibalBarca]

It's not T-90MS but T-90S...

 

[BHarwana]

It's not T-90MS but T-90S...

Here Iraqi T-90S being modernize

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Good thing Iraq finally getting out of American influence.

 

[BHarwana]

It's not T-90MS but T-90S...

Yes it is T-90S modernized thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Hope American one day have to pay for what they have and still are doing to muslim lands.

 

[Hindustani78]

The Lion of Babylon or Asad Babil was an Iraqi-built derivative of the Soviet T-72 main battle tank, assembled during the 1980s at a factory near Taji, Iraq.

Specifications
Weight 41.5 tonnes (45.7 short tons)
Length 9.53 m (31 ft 3 in) gun forward
6.95 m (22 ft 10 in) hull
Width 3.59 m (11 ft 9 in)
Height 2.23 m (7 ft 4 in)
Crew 3

Armor Mild steel, 45-300mm
Main
armament 125 mm 2A46M
Secondary
armament 7.62 mm PKT coax machine gun
12.7 mm NSVT antiaircraft machine gun or
12.7 mm DShK AA machine gun
Engine V-12 diesel
780 hp (582 kw)
Power/weight 18.8 hp/t
Suspension Torsion bar
Some dampers removed to suit desert conditions
Operational
range 425 km
600 km with fuel barrels
Speed 60 km/h (road)
45 km/h (off-road)

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August 1990 - spearheaded by four divisions of the Ba'athist regime's Republican Guard, the Iraqi Army, fourth largest at the time stormed over the border and into tiny Kuwait. One hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers and seven hundred tanks participate in the invasion as President Saddam Hussein

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

T-90MS is the best tank derived from the original T-72. It is more advanced than any American tank.