They get worn out quick in Iraq apparently. The Iraqis will have serious maintenance problems.
"The Iraqis will have serious maintenance problems."
I wonder. It seems I have seen pics of ragged out Renaults being driven in Iraq. Just how do they keep a car running that barely runs under the best of conditions? Or were they converted to "Flinstone" power?
Perhaps not...I suspect some (much?) of the equipment will wind up in surplus sales.
We have serious maintenance problems with them there. As units (large units) have rotated back and forth, they have drug most of their equipment with them. Local papers here have shown rows and rows of Bradley Fighting Vehicles on the dock at Beaumont, in preparation for the now ongoing deployment of the 4th Infantry Division (The guys who got Saddam!) for their second deployment to Iraq since 2003.