Itseasiassa nyt kun sanoit,niin ensimmäinen jo ilmeisesti alasammuttu väite T-80 vaunuista Georgiassa, olikin Georgian sotapropagandaa jossa kertoivat tuhonneensa useita T-80 vaunuja Iipoje Spike ohjuksilla. Huhu kuitenkin niistä elää vahvana.
Russia's 58th Army, hardened from bloody fighting in Chechnya, led the charge into South Ossetia. Scores of low-slung T-80 tanks, armed with 125 mm cannons and sporting scalelike reactive-armor blocks that explode outward to deflect incoming fire, made quick work of Georgia's older, but nearly identical, tanks. One Georgian tank unit lost 400 out of 500 soldiers, according to an Ossetian soldier and blogger fighting for the Russians. But tank killers from the Georgian infantry, armed with unidentified guided missiles--allegedly of Israeli origin--sparked a minor panic and a major diplomatic row between Russia and Israel, when they destroyed several T-80s, apparently by punching right through the reactive armor. The possible secret? A twin warhead: one charge to set off the reactive blocks, another to punch through the tank's steel hull.
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