{"id":1636,"date":"2018-11-03T22:41:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2018-11-03T22:42:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:42:52","slug":"us-experts-dub-russian-t-90-best-tank-performing-in-middle-east-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"US Experts Dub Russian T-90 Best Tank Performing in Middle East Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article__lead\">\n<p><strong>The Russian T-90 tanks outperform US and German combat vehicles in the Middle East conflicts, experts of the US National Interest magazine said.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1637\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?attachment_id=1637\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Nov-3-Russian-Army-T-90-Tank.jpg\" alt=\"Russian Army T-90 Tank\" width=\"1600\" height=\"889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Nov-3-Russian-Army-T-90-Tank.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Nov-3-Russian-Army-T-90-Tank-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-Nov-3-Russian-Army-T-90-Tank-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian Army T-90 Tank (Photo by \u00a9 Sputnik \/ Maksim Blinov)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\">\n<p>According to\u00a0an article written by\u00a0Sebastien Roblin, an expert in\u00a0security and conflict resolution from\u00a0Georgetown University, US-made M-1 Abrams tanks that were in\u00a0service of\u00a0the Iraqi army in\u00a02014 failed to\u00a0help prevent Mosul from\u00a0being seized by\u00a0terrorists, who captured the vehicles and used them against\u00a0the Iraqi forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis movement in\u00a0Yemen also managed to\u00a0knock out\u00a0a large number of\u00a0M-1 tanks that were at\u00a0the disposal of\u00a0the Saudi forces, the outlet said.The US tanks of\u00a0the M-60 Patton and Sabra types and German Leopard-2 combat vehicles, owned by\u00a0the Turkish army, also failed to\u00a0withstand Kurdish militants and Islamic State terror group (IS, banned in\u00a0Russia), the magazine added.<\/p>\n<p>To highlight the performance of\u00a0Russian T-90 tanks, the expert noted a video, distributed in\u00a0February 2016 by\u00a0the Syrian opposition, which featured a T-90 tank neutralizing a TOW anti-tank missile in\u00a0Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p>The tank\u2019s Kontakt-5 explosive-reactive armor neutralized the warhead of\u00a0the TOW missile prior to\u00a0the strike, minimizing the damage, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>In Russia, the T-90s entered service in\u00a01993 to\u00a0replace earlier T-80 and T-72 modifications. Since 2011, the Russian army has stopped commissioning T-90 and is instead increasing its numbers of\u00a0the T-14 Armata, whose production started in\u00a02016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> MOSCOW (<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/military\/201811031069477147-us-experts-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sputnik<\/a>) &#8211;\u00a0MILITARY &amp; INTELLIGENCE- 03\u00a0November 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian T-90 tanks outperform US and German combat vehicles in the Middle East conflicts, experts of the US National Interest magazine said. \u00a0 According to\u00a0an article written by\u00a0Sebastien Roblin, an expert in\u00a0security and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,1660,173,1723,1674,1661,176,1,22,1712,6,32,18,1673],"tags":[1957,1954,1953,1121,1956,1955,1960,1961,69,1964,1958,1963,1962,1959,270],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}