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During the Yom Kippur War the Syrian armies attacked the Golan Heights with an overwhelming force of 1200 tanks against the 180 tanks that the Israelis had in the area. The Syrians lost pretty comprehensively.
Now this battle has often been used as an example of the superiority of Western tanks (represented by the Sho't Kal - a modernized Israeli version of the British Centurion) versus Soviet tanks (represented mostly by the Soviet T-55).
The counterargument to this is that the Syrian tanks were all "monkey models" or poorer versions of Soviet machines meant only for export, and more importantly that the Syrians were poorly trained and poorly led.
The poor quality of troops in particular seems to be a general characteristic of Arab armies in the 20th century, so I`m wondering how would first-grade Soviet troops riding non-export Soviet tanks preform in the Golan Heights?