From the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights to the border region shared by Iraq and Iran, the Middle East has seen some of the largest tank battles of the past 50 years.Īs with any military weapon, the major powers of the world have continued an arms race involving tank production since that September day during World War One. From the fields of Western Europe to the Russian steppe, tanks were integral to how armies fought the Second World War. From that day forward, the tank became an important piece of weaponry which every major power in the world developed and deployed over the following century. While many of these new military creations broke down, roughly one third made it across No-Man’s-Land and sent the Germans troops running. Two crippled BTGs will render the parent unit, a Russian tank brigade, incapable of offensive combat.On September 15 th 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, 49 British tanks rumbled slowly across the battlefield toward the German lines. That’s enough to render the unit combat ineffective. If Brimstone proves just 90 percent effective (MBDA itself claims 98.7 percent effectiveness in combat) a Brimstone strike could destroy 22 out of 50 tanks and armored fighting vehicles in a Russian battalion tactical group (BTG). Brimstone can be launched towards a defined target area and will then locate and attack any enemy tanks and armored vehicles it finds. Unlike Hellfire, Brimstone has an even more interesting indirect fire capability. This gives the new Polish tank destroyer the ability to engage enemy tanks at ranges of up to 12 kilometers (or about 7.45 miles). Like Hellfire, Brimstone uses a millimetric wave radar seeker to locate and identify armor.
The missile looks similar to the American Hellfire anti-tank missile but differs in key ways.
PHILIP COBURN // Getty Imagesīrimstone is a medium range air-to-surface missile system developed by the U.K. A Brimstone missile about to be loaded on a Tornado attack aircraft during 2015 air strikes on Islamic State forces.
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