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General-purpose machine gun United States Belgium: Provided by the United States. FN MAG: General-purpose machine gun Belgium: PK machine gun: General-purpose machine gun Soviet Union: Inherited from the Soviet-Afghan War. RPD: Light machine gun Soviet Union: Inherited from the Soviet-Afghan War and Afghan Civil War. M2 Browning: 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.
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]
Clockwise from top-left: American troops in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in Kunar Province; An American F-15E Strike Eagle dropping 2000 pound JDAMs on a cave in eastern Afghanistan; an Afghan soldier surveying atop a Humvee; Afghan and American soldiers move through snow in Logar Province; victorious Taliban fighters after securing Kabul; an Afghan soldier surveying a valley in Parwan ...
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 ...
Iraq: U.S. invasion in Iraq. Planned to end with the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops, and succeeded by Operation New Dawn (see 2010 below). Operation Bastille: September 2002: March 2003: Throughout Iraq: Forward Presence: Was the code name for the operation to deploy force elements and prepare for possible combat operations in Iraq Objective ...
From May 1996, Osama bin Laden had been living in Afghanistan along with other members of al-Qaeda, operating terrorist training camps in a loose alliance with the Taliban. [1] Following the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa, the US military launched cruise missiles at these camps with limited effect on their overall operations.
Blackwater was one of several private security firms employed following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. BSC was originally formed as a Delaware LLC and was one of over sixty private security firms employed during the Iraq War to guard officials and installations, train Iraq's new army and police, and provide other support for coalition forces ...