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Originally Posted by RN7
The MILAN missile will not defeat the Abram's, although HOT-1 in the right conditions might get a result, But I think looking at what type of anti-tank missiles the Soviets had or could have sent to the southwest might be the answer to why U.S. armoured forces were defeated and retreated.
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The myth of the M1/MIA1 Abrams' invulnerability to second-gen ATGMs has been busted for quite some time. Most recently,
http://warisboring.com/what-destroyed-this-abrams-tank/
Spoiler: It was either a Milan or a relatively old Chinese ATGM.
Massed RPG fire killed an Abrams during the 2003 "Thunder Run" into Baghdad.
Bottom line, the Abrams was the best tank of its generation, but, even in its heyday, it wasn't unbeatable.