‘It’s like the bicycle against the motor car’

TANKS from Scotland’s cavalry destroyed an entire squadron of 14 Iraqi tanks and wiped out four key infantry positions before dawn yesterday morning.

It was Britain's biggest tank battle since the Second World War and just one squadron of the dark destroyers from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was needed to eliminate the enemy.

In the first major strike for British ground forces so far, Challenger 2s from C Squadron of the Scots DG took out 14 Russian-built T55s as well as three MTLB armoured personnel carriers.