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Old 03-27-2008, 22:05 PM   #134 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Bad Karma View Post
- Sorry for replying to this earlier. I had not seen it. Battlefield definitions are very important. There is a big difference between "destroyed" and "disabled"
Bad Karma,

Just off the top of my head, there have been numerous Abrams that have been destroyed, i.e., not going back to depot for refit, but simply scrapped due to IEDs. Granted, it's taken huge amounts of explosives buried and detonated at the right time, but it's happened nonetheless.

The number of Abrams disabled by IEDs and requiring depot level (not unit or DS) repair is in the hundreds.
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