Yeah, as is mentioned in the article, as of 1965 this battle was the largest tank on tank fight since world war 2. What I found really interesting though was the mix of tanks the Indians had compared to the Pakistanis (and the fact that they were older designs) and how the Indians used every advantage they had to reduce the technical and numerical superiority of their foe (flooding the area from an irrigation channel, hiding their tanks in the vegetation of the field, finding the right terrain to set up the U shaped ambush, the integration of recoilless rifles and so on)
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