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Images of T-90MS MBT being deliverd to Iraq

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


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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
 
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