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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]
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.
Armies of the Iran–Iraq War 1980–88. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-4558-0. National Training Center (1 January 1991). The Iraqi Army: Organization and Tactics. Paladin Press. ISBN 978-0-87364-632-1. Tucker, Spencer C. (20 August 2014). Persian Gulf War Encyclopedia: A Political, Social, and Military History. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
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 war with Iraq. [43] Iran today is the world's second-most afflicted country by weapons of mass destruction, only after Japan.
The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [84] [85] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition , which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein .
Used in Iraq. [32] RPG-22: Rocket-propelled grenade Soviet Union Used in Iraq and Syria. [33] RPG-26: Rocket-propelled grenade Soviet Union Used in Syria. [32] RPG-75 [22] Recoilless rifle Czechoslovakia: Type 69 RPG: Rocket propelled grenade China Type 69-I variant used. [10] M79 Osa [34] [35] Anti-tank rocket launcher Yugoslavia: MILAN [31 ...
The conflict is often compared to World War I, [45] 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 ...
The map marks the position of reported chemical weapons attacks in the War in Iraq (2013–2017). Yellow markers indicate chlorine attacks. Red indicate a more deadly chemical weapon agent.