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Various videos emerged on YouTube searchable by showing these tanks being upgraded. One notable example was a T-34 fitted with a Chinese Type 69 (WZ-121) turret. Another had naval searchlights welded to the hull for night operations. The most famous, nicknamed "The Beast of Nawaran," had reactive bricks (Explosive Reactive Armor) ripped from destroyed Iraqi T-55s and glued onto its sloped glacis plate.

It is worth noting exactly what the Kurds were driving. All vehicles were the 1944 model "T-34-85": t-34 kurdish

In a move that stunned military analysts, the Kurdish Asayish (security forces) dragged a T-34/85 out of a monument park in Erbil. They removed the floral arrangements, cleaned the bore of the gun, and drove it to the front lines near Gwer. Various videos emerged on YouTube searchable by showing

Kurdish forces lacked the industrial base to manufacture tanks, but they became masters of battlefield salvage. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Peshmerga units utilized terrain to their advantage, luring Iraqi armored columns into narrow valleys where tanks could not maneuver. The most famous, nicknamed "The Beast of Nawaran,"