Who makes these tanks?
yitbod
Posted on 08/26/2010 2:01:58 AM PDT by DJ Elliott
The Iraqi Army is modeled on a modified US Army division structure. While the motorized and infantry divisions are still pre-modular, the heavy brigades are organized on the modular pattern. Recent information [not all confirmed] on purchases, training, and the distribution of newly acquired armor point towards a target of 17 IA heavy brigades and an armor training brigade by the end of the Phase 2 upgrades [2011-2016]. This indicates 4 armor divisions and a heavy brigade or [more likely] 1 armored and 4 mechanized divisions plus a heavy brigade [not including the armor training brigade] are planned for the operational force by 2016. However, major components such as additional tanks, self-propelled artillery, and support are still to be ordered.
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Who makes these tanks?
yitbod
Most of those in the picture are salvage from Saddam era.
USSR made them...
Note: Still trying to get confirmation on the tanks to the right. First ones I have seen with that paint-job and very few IA tanks have smoke-dispensers on forward turret.
IA has 76 T54/55 salvaged
About 110 T72s [77 donated from Hungary/NATO, rest salvage]
Just took delivery of the first 11 of 140 ordered M1A1s.
All to be delivered in the next year.
Option for another 140 M1A1s to be delivered by 2013.
There were 70 Slovak T72s that were supposed to be donated by NATO but, they never arrived.
Suspect Slovakia decided to keep them after the Georgia-Russian fight...
I suspect that they’ll all be on blocks 6 months after U.S. forces leave.
Haven’t you heard? We already left....
The contracts include 2-3 years maint/trng which means your math is off.
The Iraqis are paying for that support and maint trng...
PS The new name for MNSTC-I/USF-I A&T for post-2011 is
“Office of Security Cooperation Iraq”.
Just like the non-troops in Saudi, they will be part of the AmEmb...
You’re right. Having contracts changes everything...especially in the Middle East.
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