Meanwhile you know nothing about these incidents.
First photo shows a tank hit a month ago, longer perhaps, it was hit by RPG, and nothing happened.
Second photo shows incomplete story, this tank was actually abandoned by it's crew and it's ammunition compartment had been blow off by crew using some sort of granade.
Third photo shows one of Iraqi M1A1M's hit by RPG, yet no serious damage was made, and the men standing on tank is Iraqi policeman.
Iraqi officials reported that 28 tanks were damaged (but not lost!) during fights with terrorists, 5 tanks had armor perforation after ATGM attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/w...-iraqi-military-had-been-in-decline.html?_r=0
From January through May, six helicopters were shot down and 60 were damaged in battle, an administration official said.
In the same period, 28 M-1 tanks were damaged and five tanks sustained full armor penetration by antitank guided missiles. ISIS, the administration official added, appears to have acquired Russian antitank weapons in Syria. A significant number of M-1 tanks have been hobbled by maintenance issues, the official said.
What is also important to note, is that exported M1 tanks, have different armor package than the ones used by US Armed Forces.
US tanks have 3 armor packages:
Original "Burlington" armor package with two generations, used on M1 (1st generation), M1IP and M1A1 (both 2nd generation).
Heavy Armor Package or HAP (which include layers made from depleted uranium alloy), there are 3 generations of this armor, used from M1A1HA (1st generation or 2nd depending on production batch) to M1A2SEPv2 (3rd generation).
Next Generation Armor Package, this is new armor that was developed for next major M1 upgrade ECP - Engineering Change Proposal.
Exported M1 tanks have so called EAP or Export Armor Package that is most likely weaker than HAP and NGAP armor packages. However it is possible that EAP can be "tuned" depending on customer, and for example reliable allies and customers like Australia, can receive better EAP armor package for their tanks, than Iraq, Egypt, kuwait or Saudi Arabia.
However USA also allows if customer have such capabilities to replace EAP armor package with their own sollution, for example Saudi Arabia M1A2 tanks, when modernized to M1A2S standard, have old EAP armor package, replaced with new armor, developed and manufactured in Saudi Arabia.
Jane's have article about that:
http://www.janes.com/article/39550/...s=1&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
The official said 28 Iraqi Army Abrams had been damaged in fighting with militants, five of them suffering full armour penetration when hit by ATGMs. The United States supplied 140 refurbished M1A1 Abrams tanks to Iraq between 2010 and 2012. While they have new equipment to improve situational awareness, they do not have the depleted uranium amour package that increases protection over the tank's frontal arc.
Here is also topic about the subject on TankNet forums.
http://www.tank-net.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38977&page=1
What more -still LOS mode only - only "advantage" -capability to hide carrier after terrains. But this still not solved terreain and max fire range problem.
