[phil74501]

What the OP is referring to isn't new. I've seen several videos/news stories/ online posts over the last several years about some, supposedly, "invulnerable" Western tank being taken out by an ATGM. The one thing that's always left out in those videos and news stories, as has been mentioned in previous posts on this thread, is that those tanks aren't the latest models...which is what's always implied. It's the result of a lot of people, especially news reporters, who think that every Western tank X is exactly the same as every other tank of that model because they all look exactly alike on the outside, which we all know isn't the case.

A year or so back a video was making the rounds of an Iraqi M1 being taken out by some ATGM. The news reports were trying to imply that EVERY M1 would've suffered the same fate. Left out was the fact that the M1 in question wasn't even the HA version of an M1a1. Not every Leopard 2 is exactly the same anymore than every T-72 is exactly the same. Normally speaking, most Western countries are not going to sell their latest top of the line tank to some Third World country...mostly because those Third World countries couldn't afford a top of the line Leopard 2a7.