Following rumors this week of “company-sized” Iranian tank contingent taking part in the Battle of Tikrit, a Reuters photograph published today has captured imagery of what is in all likelihood an IRGC-GF supplied T-72S. The tank seen above is clearly distinguishable from Iraqi Army T-72M1 type MBTs by the fitments for Kontakt-1 ERA tiles (removed […]

IAG Guardian APC 4×4 armoured personnel carrier combat-proven by Kurdish armed forces in Iraq, reported www.armyrecognition.com. The Guardian is equipped with open top turret with armour plates on 360° mounted in the center of the crew compartment. The turret can be armed with a 7.62mm or 12.7mm machine gun. There is also a single hatch […]

Two-hundred-fifty Swedish [armored fighting vehicles] of the type BMP-1 are secretly being shipped to Iraq, Swedish Radio News reveals. It is illegal in Sweden to export weapons to Iraq, but the tanks are being sold via a company in the Czech Republic. In 2010, the Swedish Defence Material Administration, FMV, sold 350 light tanks to […]

Iraq According to Baghdad operation command, TOS-1A targeted an IS gathering north of Taji – Baghdad-Samara road. TOS-1 was the Soviet army’s secret hammer during the last decade of the Cold War. It fires powerful rockets to smash enemy trenches, fortifications and buildings, cracking defensive lines to allow tanks and infantry to punch through. The […]

The Czech firm Excalibur Army will deliver 100 repaired tanks and armored personnel carriers (APCs) to the Iraqi military in a contract for hundreds of million crowns, the server Aktualne.cz writes today. The contract was given a go-ahead by the Czech foreign, defense and interior ministries. The arms are to help Baghad fight Islamic State. […]

Iraq Air Force looses a Helicopter in Samarra. The helicopter crashed under unknown circumstances during fighting with Islamic State Forces. Both pilots were injured. A photograph reveals registration number ‘415’.

Iraq has taken delivery of a new batch of Mil Mi-28NE ‘Havoc’ (Night Hunter) attack helicopters, as well as additional Mil Mi-35M ‘Hind’ assault helicopters, as stated by the Ministry of Defense. The helicopters arrived in-country aboard Antonov An-124 ‘Condor’ transport aircraft. The Iraqi Army Aviation is known to have already lost at least one […]

Photo EC135 in green scheme and a door gunner of the Kurdistan Armed Forces Peshmerga. basnews.com

Iraqi Army Aviation Command’s Russian-made Mi-171Sh helicopters