Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Inherited from the Soviet-Afghan War and Afghan Civil War. M2 Browning: Heavy machine gun United States: Provided by the United States. M134 Minigun: Rotary medium machine gun United States: Provided by the United States. DShK: 12.7x99mm heavy machine gun Soviet Union: Inherited from the Soviet-Afghan War. KPV heavy machine gun: 14.5x114mm ...
Light machine gun [4] M240 United States: General-purpose machine gun: Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [7] PK Soviet Union: General-purpose machine gun: The PKM variant also used. [4] Zastava M84 Yugoslavia: General-purpose machine gun: Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] M2 Browning United States: Heavy machine gun
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.
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 ...
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]
Iraq Guns for Hire: National Geographic hired Pelton to go inside the world of private security contractors for the film Iraq: Guns For Hire. as part of their Explorer series. Pelton provides unique access to several companies like Blackwater, Reed, Triple Canopy, and others in this human look at the dangerous job of protecting people and cargo ...
American attention was diverted from Afghanistan when US forces invaded Iraq in March 2003. [155] In May 2003, the Taliban Supreme Court's chief justice, Abdul Salam, proclaimed that the Taliban were back, regrouped, rearmed, and ready for guerrilla war to expel US forces from Afghanistan. [156]
Map of major U.S. military bases in Iraq and the number of soldiers stationed there (2007) The United States Department of Defense continues to have a large number of temporary military bases in Iraq, most a type of forward operating base (FOB).