Tanks in the Gulf War 1991An essential guide to the tanks that fought the greatest armoured clashes of modern times, between Saddam Hussein's Soviet supplied army and the advanced tanks fielded by the Coalition. The Gulf War of 1991 was the largest tank vs tank confrontation of the modern era, and the only large scale tank combat ever to involve major NATO armies. With the Iraqi Army equipped primarily with modern Soviet and Warsaw Pact built tanks, it was also a rare example