T-90 MBT vs TOW ATGM in Syria
The Syrian civil war has seen the use of a wide spectrum of modern Russian armaments, including the T-90 Main Battle Tank.
In the brutal fighting between rival forces it has seen T-90 tank facing the threat of the TOW-2A anti-tank guided munition (ATGM) in urban warfare conditions and coping with varying levels of success.
There are two documented occasions for TOW-2A attacks against the T-90 until the end of May, plus two more claims with unconfirmed results.
Russia commenced the T-90 supply to the Bashar al-Assad forces in the autumn of 2015. There is no official information about
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