T-72 Asad Babil: Perbedaan antara revisi

Nama Singa Babilonia diambil dari Singa Babilonia, yang mana merupakan simbol kuno dari kerajaan babilonia yang mempresentasikan sebagai kekuatan yang besar.

 

In the late-1980s plans were made to produce new T-72M1 tanks in Taji. These tanks were to be assembled from knockdown kits delivered by the Polish state-owned company Bumar-Łabędy.<ref name="ZalogaP24">{{cite book|last1=Zaloga|first1=Steven J.|title=M1 Abrams Vs T-72 Ural - Operation Desert Storm 1991|date=2009|publisher=Osprey Publishing Ltd.|isbn=978 1 84603 432 9|page=24|accessdate=21 October 2015}}</ref> The assembly was to start in 1989 and the tanks would receive the name Asad Babil (Lion of Babylon). According to Polish officials not a single T-72M1 was finished, even though in 1988 a T-72M was displayed on an Iraqi arms show, which was claimed to be locally produced.<ref name="ZalogaP24" /> The local assembly of the T-72 started in Taji in early 1989 as suggested by Iraqi officials.<ref name="timmerman">{{citation |first=Kenneth R |last= Timmerman |authorlink=Kenneth R. Timmerman |url=http://www.kentimmerman.com/news/tdl16.htm |title=The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq |chapter=Chapter 16: The Gang's All Here |isbn=978-0-395-59305-9}}</ref> A number of Iraqi officials such as Lt. General Amer Rashid however did not like the idea of being dependent on knockdown kits supplied by another country and pushed for the complete production of the T-72M1 tank instead.<ref name="ZalogaP24" /><ref name="timmerman" />

In 1991 the Taji plant was destroyed by an airstrike while being upgraded by Bumar-Łabędy.<ref name="ZalogaP24" />

 

The [[United Nations]] imposed an arms embargo following the Iraqi [[invasion of Kuwait]] in August 1990, which reduced the complete assembly of tanks to simple spare parts for Lions and other tanks in the Iraqi arsenal.<ref name="timmerman" /> It is not known how many Lion tanks were completed during the span between early 1989 and this embargo.

 

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