New Iraqi equipment

[blazejos]

Iraq has many equipment from pre 2003 war army +

from Poland
- Tarpan Honker terain vehicles
- should buy Sokol helicopters what now serve in polish stabilisation force
- buy fabric new Dzik-3 armoured patrol vehicle
- want modernised his T-72 to the PT-91 Twardy standard like this what serve in malysia army but with new ukrainian 120mm gun

From Hungary
- BTR-80 what serve before in hungarian army

From Ukraine
- Mi-17 helicopters

So as you saw in future iraqi army should be armed not only in Western arms but use only modernised and used ex-soviet weapons because is cheap and not so bad. Many ex-soviet satelites like poland in NATO use this weapons and are richest than iraq. Because change all weapons in all army is a very expensive task.

[PlasmaKrab]

So as you saw in future iraqi army should be armed not only in Western arms but use only modernised and used ex-soviet weapons because is cheap and not so bad. Many ex-soviet satelites like poland in NATO use this weapons and are richest than iraq. Because change all weapons in all army is a very expensive task.

Besides, the Iraqi veterans, official or not, are much more used to Soviet-style weapons and systems since they have been mainly running on these for more than rwenty years at least.
And it seems that they have pushed this requirement forward to their government and the CPA.

[thatguy96]

I know this doesn't matter in terms of SP's scope, but the variety of AK pattern weapons that have been seen in Iraq in use officially is pretty impressive. They've obviously either been donated by former East Bloc NATO members or purchased and then donated by the US, because in the mix one has seen Romanian and even East German produced AKs (these recognizable from their unique "stubbled" plastic stocks).

One also saw what could be considered really old Soviet style equipment in the form of early model T-55s and IIRC T-62s.

The largest usage of US-made equipment by the Iraqi forces has been their usage of HMMWVs.