RFI 1/35 Takom M47 Unlucky Break at Abadan

[PanzerWomble]

Not overly productive , just finally got around to a photo shoot .

I may have accidentally bought the wrong M47 for another project ...er...um ..so had to do something with this diesel one.

Early days in the Iran/Iraq war , the Iranians were hard pushed to defend Abadan with whatever was at hand. This M47 belonged to the 37th Arm'd Brigade which was wiped out in the defence. Sommit different 

Laterz

PW 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Martinnfb]

That's really nice. Good old days at Abadan  . 

[PanzerWomble]

3 hours ago, Martinnfb said:

That's really nice. Good old days at Abadan  . 

Very happy days

"Hello Canadian infidels "

 

Side note I've been reading this book , which is rated as one of the best accounts , TBH having read a lot of Beevor , I'd personally agree .

 

 

Once you get over the "they were both awful regimes" it's quite fascinating 

Saddam made the same mistake as Hitler with Russia ....opponent much larger but isolated globally for allies; their army in disarray because of the post Shah purges .... so a quick Blitzkreig to get Arab southern lands back and rob Iran of oil exports ..It was never about defeating Iran . 

However the Iranians fought back and the Arab populace didn't rise up . Oops.

Two years later he is back at the border and sueing for peace with the UN, however Iran blocks this by demanding his removal ( as is distracts from it's own civil war over the rise of clerics in government , Kurds, ex Shah forces ).. and continues the war for another 6 years in a bloody border stalemate . Out of arms they revert to using "cheaper" child troops ( est 20% of their forces) for human wave attacks and 'mine clearing by warm body' exercises....Which when faced by these mass attacks leads Saddam to release the gases .

Who supplied arms and money to who is a whole other story but basically no one came out well . Phew

Finally the ability of T62s to wipe out Chieftains was panic fuel in the UK / Nato and lead to a hasty uparmouring of the old smoke bucket with Stillbrew armour on the MK10/11s ....and developing / buying the Chally 1 which was originally for the Shahs army ..

 

"it's safe behind our tank ..probably "

 

 

 

[Martinnfb]

There’s no glamor in war, only victims. Thanks for the lead I need to check it out.