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Old September 1st, 2009, 01:45 PM
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Default Re: Iraqi errors report - Part 2

Unit 992 UAZ Jeep from russian OOB could be added.
1/1975-12/2020 as availability dates.



Source: www.armyrecognition.com

Units 345-570: SU-100
They should be rearmed with weapon 54 12.7 DShK AAMG instead of weapon 56 14.5 KPV AAMG in slot 2.

Units 346-571: SU-100M
1) Stabilizer rating should be reduced to 0, SU-100s did not get stabilizers in the postwar upgrades
(Source tank-net.org ). Being assault guns stabilizer would have been a very odd choice for an upgrade anyway.
2) They should be rearmed with weapon 54 12.7 DShK AAMG instead of weapon 56 14.5 KPV AAMG in slot 2.
3) FC rating could be reduced to 3, there is no mention that sights were upgraded.

Unit 284 Cascavel III
A clone of it should be added with 1/2008-12/2020 as availability dates.
Source: http://www.blackanthem.com/News/scit...les13820.shtml

Units 785-786-787-788-789: Foreign Troops
They could be renamed “Jihadist Team”

Formation 173: SP-SAM Battery
Formation 175: SP-SAM Platoon
Unit 374: SA-6 Kub
Unit 379: AMX-30 Roland
Final availability date for all of the above should be changed to 4/2003. As I noted in the past SP SAMs went out of service in 2003, with captured ones being scrapped.

A new SP-SAM Section using two units 46 Avenger HMMWV as template and with 1/2011-12/2020 as availability dates should be introduced instead. Avengers are used in sections of two.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../44-44/Ch1.htm

Unit 215: M728 CEV
It should be deleted.
There were, until last year, talks about aquiring a very large stock of M60s from Greece and/or others suppliers which were getting rid of them. It was at least within the real of the possible that some M728s might have been thrown in as well.
The M60 option would have made some sense but the iraqis seem to have settled for a slower build up of an Abrams based tank force, supplemented by T-72s and some residual T-55/Type 69. It is still possible that some M60s might be purchased to boost numbers (iraqi procurement is very fluid at the moment) so units 9-10 can be left but a rare, specialized and harder to mantain vehicle like the M728 will not be included in all likelyhood. They already have in service or on order several vehicles performing engineering functions (BREMs, M88s etc.).
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