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Default Re: Iraqi errors report - Part 2

Formation 42: Mech Sapper Pl
The BMP-1 APCs in the last threes slots are not available in 1965(platoon start date)
I suggest them to be changed with unit 61 BTR-50PK or another class 25 APC.
This way the platoon could be used throught its entire life.

Unit 324: HMMWV
It has 111 in the heat ammo slot. Probably 111 was entered in there instead of the sound slot where it would have been approapriate.
Also survivability should be increased to 2 as it seems to be the norm for such vehicles.
This would apply to unit 910 too.

A clone of formation 19 Mech Weapons Pl should be added with unit 311 BTR-152
or another class 23 APC in slots 6-7-8 (it could be called “Mot Weapons Pl”).
Availability date would be 2/1959-4/2003.
In this way the the correct allotment of support weapons could be provided to units mounted on wheeled APCs.
Source : "The Iraqi Army: Organization and Tactics"

Formation 37: Mot Rifle Co(+)
Final availability date should be restricted to 4/2003.
Its component, formation 216 Motor MG Sec in slot 7, should be replaced with the above described Mot Weapons Pl
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