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Sagger Anti-Tank Missile vs M60 Main Battle Tank: Yom Kippur War 1973

By Chris McNab; Johnny Shumate(Illustrations); Alan Gilliland(Illustrations)

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781472825773, 1472825772
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (36020462 bytes)
Series
Duel 84
Pages
80\112
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
Modern Warfare;Nonfiction

Description

The 1973 Yom Kippur War rewrote the textbook on the tactics of modern armored warfare. Unlike the previous major Arab-Israeli war of 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) faced an enemy that had invested heavily in modern Soviet weapon systems and tactics.Using detailed color artwork and insightful analysis, this book explains how the effective use of the Soviet-supplied AT-3 Sagger (9M14 Malyutka) anti-tank missile allowed small Arab tank-killing teams to destroy Israeli armor at an astonishing rate. It also analyzes the tank that opposed it, the US-built M60A1, which had to fight for survival against the Arab Saggers, and shows how in both the Sinai and the Golan Heights, the IDF quickly learned that firepower and infantry/artillery cooperation were the keys to their survival.

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