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10,000 Tantals were sold to Iraq in mid-2000. [3] AKM: 7.62×39mm Soviet Union: Used by previous Iraqi army. Some captured from the Islamic State. Mostly kept in storage. Used in parades. [citation needed] Zastava M70: 7.62×39mm Yugoslavia Iraq: In limited use. [citation needed]
Towed anti-aircraft gun M75 variant also used. [38] ZU-23-2 Soviet Union: 23 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun [25] Oerlikon GDF Switzerland: 35 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun Captured from Kuwait, used with the Skyguard fire control system. [39] 61-K Soviet Union China: 250 [25] 37 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun Chinese Type 55 also used. [40] AZP S-60 ...
Iraqi EE-9 Cascavel armoured car hit by Coalition tank fire in February 1991. Coalition aircraft inbound during Operation Desert Shield.. List of Gulf War military equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.
The Tabuk Sniper Rifle is an Iraqi semi-automatic designated marksman rifle, made from a modified version of the Zastava M76 sniper rifle.The Tabuk Rifle was manufactured at the Al-Qadissiya Establishments in Iraq [7] [8] [9] using machinery sold to Iraq by Zastava Arms of Yugoslavia when Saddam Hussein was president.
Most of these occurred during the Iran–Iraq War, but chemical weapons were used at least once against the Shia popular uprising in southern Iraq in 1991. [22] Chemical weapons were used extensively, with post-war Iranian estimates stating that more than 100,000 Iranians were affected by Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons during the eight-year ...
General-purpose machine gun Soviet Union: Both PK and PKM variants used. [7] Type 67-2: General-purpose machine gun China Used in Iraq. [10] Type 80 [10] General-purpose machine gun China Captured from Syrian Army. Rheinmetall MG3 [7] General-purpose machine gun West Germany: M240 [7] General-purpose machine gun United States M249 [7] Light ...
Battle: Was a battle fought during the Iraq War in 2004 for the capital of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq that occurred concurrently to fighting in Fallujah. Operation Wolfhound Power: 11 November 2004: 12 November 2004: Hawja: Counterinsurgency: To root insurgents out of the city Operation Wolfhound Jab: 15 November 2004: 15 November 2004
The conflict is often compared to World War I, [44] in that the tactics used closely mirrored those of the 1914–1918 war, including large scale trench warfare, manned machine-gun posts, bayonet charges, use of barbed wire across trenches and on no-mans land, human wave attacks by Iran, and Iraq's extensive use of chemical weapons (such as ...