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List of Gulf War military equipment
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 ...
List of current equipment of the Iraqi Ground Forces
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
Project 922 was the codename for Iraq's third and most successful attempt at producing chemical and biological weapons. Within three years (1978–1981), Project 922 had gone from concept to production for first generation Iraqi chemical weapons (mustard agent). By 1984, Iraq started producing its first nerve agents, Tabun and Sarin.
Tabuk Sniper Rifle. 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.
2003 invasion of Iraq
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 ...