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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.
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]
Field gun Chinese copy of the M-46. M1937 [33] Soviet Union: 50 [23] 152 mm Gun-howitzer D-1 [33] Soviet Union: 250 [23] 152 mm Howitzer 2A36 Giatsint-B Soviet Union: 180 [23] 152 mm Field gun Type 83 China: 50 [23] 152 mm Howitzer G5 South Africa: 100 [33] 155 mm Howitzer GHN-45 Canada: 200 [33] 155 mm Howitzer Illegally transferred to Iraq ...
After the Gulf War in 1991, the Iraqis admitted the existence of Project Babylon, and allowed UN inspectors to destroy the hardware in Iraq as part of the disarmament process. Several barrel sections seized by UK customs officers are displayed at the Royal Armouries , Fort Nelson, Portsmouth .
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Their light weapons consist of stocks of Cold War-era arms, namely the Tabuk series of Zastava M-70 copies and derivatives like the Tabuk Sniper Rifle, the Soviet AKM and the Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, the Zastava M72 and PKM machine guns, and Al-Kadesih sniper rifle though they have received assistance from the U.S. in the form of ...