Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Whilst the first Gulf War may superficially look like a "conventional" war it was highly asymmetric because the Allies started out with massive air superiority and were using much better tanks, the Soviet T-80's were garbage (and still are, really).
When did Iraq ever have T-80s? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-80#Operators

I thought we already solved that the soviet tanks exported to the middle east were mostly downgraded variants of the worse/outdated soviet tanks. The T-64 and T-80 were mostly in use by the soviet guard/elite armored units, if they were garbage then NATO wouldn't have had to fear the soviets at all.