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Old March 7th, 2008, 10:53 AM
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Default Re: Iraq errors report

At http://armstrade.sipri.org/

In the registries it is written:
Al Fao 210mm Self-propelled gun.
Two units delivered via Spain in 1989.
Planned production in Iraq cancelled.

Some pictures (scroll down)
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...d.php?t=124145
Probably taken at the Baghdad Expo of 1989

From what I pieced together these guns were all self propelled (no mention of towed versions) and while they got to the state of prototype in the late 80's they progressed no further.
There are no mentions anywhere of their use or mass production especially in the late 90's.
Given how the indigenous arms production programs of Iraq were scrutinized before and after 2003 I find doubtful that the production of something so big and complex would have passed unnoticed, without mentioning that the delapidated industrial base of sanctions era Iraq would not have been up to it.
I bet that those two prototypes were parked somewhere and forgotten until they were bombed or scrapped. I don't know the game policy about these sort of units.

Should I try to find something more about the M-84?
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