Tank battle of Susangerd
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| Country: |
 Iran
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| Province : | Chuzestan | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 34 ′ N , 48 ° 11 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 43,591 (2006) () | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Iraqi Invasion (1980)
Entegham - Kaman 99 - Khorramshahr - Sultan 10 - Scorch Sword - Abadan - Kafka - Ashkan - Morwarid - Dezful
Standoff (1981) Tavakol - Susangerd - H-3
Iranian offensives for the liberation of Iranian territory (1981–82)
Sam-ol-A'emeh - Tariq al-Qods - Fath ol-Mobin - Beit ol-Moqaddas - liberation of Khorramshahr
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1982–84)
Ramadan - Muslim Ibn Aqil - Muharram ol-Harram - Dawn 1 - Dawn 2 - Dawn 3 - Dawn 4 - Dawn 5 - Kheibar - Kurdish Uprising - Dawn 6 - Dawn 7 - Hawizeh Marshland
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1985-87)
Badr - Dawn 8 - 1. al-Faw - Dawn 9 - Karbala 1 - Karbala 2 - Karbala 3 - Fath 1 - Karbala 4 - Karbala 5 - Karbala 6 - Karbala 7 - Karbala 8 - Karbala 9 - Karbala10 - Nasr 4
Last year of the war (1988)
Beit ol-Moqaddas 2 - Anfal - Halabdscha - Zafar 7 - Tawakalna ala Allah - 2nd al-Faw - Shining Sun - 40 stars - Mersad
Tanker War
Earnest Will - Prime Chance - Eager Glacier - Nimble Archer - Praying Mantis
International Incidents
USS Stark - Iran Air Flight 655
The tank battle of Susangerd from January 5th to 11th 1981 was the largest tank battle in the First Gulf War and the largest tank battle after the Yom Kippur War , 1973.
course
From January 5, 1981, Iranian armored formations moved from the south towards Susangerd to carry out the first major counter-attack against Iraqi troops. Pioneer associations built bridges over the Karche River to cross with up to 400 tanks. The Iraqi troop units let the Iranians advance up to two kilometers in order to then destroy the bridges built behind the tank units by the air force. The Iranian tanks were trapped on three sides. In the following fighting, between 100 and 140 Iranian Chieftain tanks were destroyed and over 100 Iranian tanks were captured by Iraqi units. The Iraqis are said to have lost only 50 T-62 tanks in these fighting .
consequences
After this devastating Iranian defeat, the First Gulf War developed into a trench warfare . The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Abolhassan Banisadr , who was also the commander in chief of the troops, was blamed for this military defeat. His later dismissal was, in addition to political reasons, the result of the defeat at Susangerd.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Kaveh Farrokh: Iran at War: 1500-1988 , Osprey 2011, ISBN 978-184603-491-6
- ^ Henner Fürtig : The Iraqi-Iranian War . Akademie Verlag 1992, ISBN 3-05-001905-0 .