Unit 400, 401, 402 and 403 Weapons Team
While the 1941 iraqi army may still have retained separate LMG teams in the rifle platoons
this typically 30's practice did not survive after WW2.
Neither the british advisors which oversaw the reconstruction of the iraqi army postwar
nor the soviet ones which took over after the 1958 coup had separate LMGs team as doctrine.
To the extent the iraqi platoons structure is mentioned in the available literature they are described as
having standard squads.
http://orbat.com/site/history/histor...qarmy1941.html
http://members.tripod.com/collinsj/i...tions_1990.htm
US Army Iraq Country Handbook
In addition I have asked around in various forums including ones specialized in arab israeli wars.
The answer was always the same: the LMGs were kept in the squad after WW2.
The weapons teams should thus be deleted from formations 45-46-50-51 while the units thmeselves
might be kept around, as they are used in various scenarios. They could be renationalized to make them unavailable for purchase
or be made available for purchase in a specialized formation only.
This of course means that the rifle sections, units 410-411-412-413-414
and the Motor sections units 420-421-422-423-424 would have to be either modified
or renationalized and replaced with new units. More on this later.
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