Major Shaitan Singh
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Yeah yeah! That's right! Vaunted "war elephants" Uncle Sam during the civil war have been more vulnerable and less effective than the T-72M Soviet generation. Write about this fellow blog BMPD :
"As reported February 6, 2015 Czech web resource aktualne.cz , Czech company Excalibur Army (part of the Excalibur Group) will soon begin delivery of the Iraqi army refurbished T-72 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles BMP-1 in the presence of the Czech army. The first batch of T-72 tanks and BMP-1 is past repair, adopted by the Iraqi representatives and is ready to be shipped at the company in Sternberk (former armored repair plant of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic VOP 026 Šternberk, acquired Excalibur Group in 2010). The exact number of ordered Iraqi tanks and APCs are not reported, but the owner of the Excalibur Group Jaroslav Strnad said that prepared for dispatch technique is "the first part of the contract for more than 100 refurbished BMPs and tanks. This is a job for us for several years worth hundreds of millions of crowns. "This is the biggest export contract in the history of Excalibur Group since 1995. As previously reported , the company recently Excalibur Army also began the implementation of a contract for the delivery of a refurbished equipment (including acquired in Hungary written-off T-72A and former Czech BMP-1 and 122-mm MLRS RM-70) Nigeria.
Comment bmpd. Since its re-establishment in 2004, the new Iraqi armed forces tried to pursue a policy of refusal to purchase Soviet-designed tanks, and tanks to refocus on the western production. In 2005, the new Iraqi army against the American military financing were delivered 77 T-72M1 from the presence of the armed forces of Hungary, the intermediary company repurchased US Defense Solutions and past repair Hungarian armored repair plant CURRUS in Godollo. These tanks so far were the only machines such as the T-72, imported by Iraq in the "post-Hussein period." In the future, the Iraqi government has rejected offers them the same buying Defense Solutions project in Eastern Europe and the Ukraine to 2,000 T-72 tanks and then repair them on Czech and Ukrainian armored repair plant and supply the new Iraqi army. Instead, Iraq from 2010 to 2013 was 146 modernized M1A1M Abrams tanks from the presence of the US Army, and in December 2014 was issued a notice of the impending delivery Pentagon Iraq another 175 upgraded M1A1 tanks of availability.
In February 2013, former Iraqi Defense Minister Gen. -leytenant Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim al-Obeidi Mifardzhi (Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim Obeidi al-Mifarji), who held the position in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, from June 2006 to December 2010, and who has spearheaded the currently implemented contracts to supply Iraq a large block of Russian weapons, said that Iraq, despite the acquisition of weapons in Russia, nevertheless will not purchase any tanks "of Eastern origin" because they "represent a bomb on the tracks," and that in the future will be purchased only Western-made tanks .However, rapid advances LIH groups in the fight against the Iraqi army in the last year, is likely to have led to the failure of the Iraqi military and political leadership of this principle and "intelligibility" in procurement, and Iraq again began hastily to buy weapons "of Eastern origin "including T-72 tanks. Can be predicted that the contract for the purchase of T-72 tanks in the Czech Excalibur Army will be only the beginning of the process - that opens up prospects for the sale of tanks to Iraq (as a "second-hand" of the presence and the new T-90 production) and for the Russian side. "
As we can see, the euphoria of owning a "perfect" weapon manufactured in the USA under the blows of the LIH immediately passed. American combat systems can not compete with cheaper, but also more effective Soviet / Russian weapons. Iraq has already been tested in battle and Russian systems TOC on the chassis of the T-90S. According to insider information, he is now interested in buying themselves and T-90S tanks, upgraded with the installation of air conditioning and panoramic sight, as well as equipped with a set dopzaschity for combat operations in the city. In addition to the interest of the Iraqi army tanks cause fire support vehicle BMPT-72.However, in the latter case, the customer would like to have a large angle of elevation of the gun unit, a simple and cheap MSA in case of failure of the rockets in favor of Nursi blocks or installing packages with RPO.
Negotiations are going. Crucial price, which in the opinion of the Iraqi side is a tall and delivery time (I would like to quickly). I should add that a couple of years ago, an Iraqi delegation visited the head of the corporation "Uralvagonzavod" in Nizhny Tagil to get acquainted with the possibilities of production. The company currently handled by military orders, including export. This is due to including the deployment of one of the countries licensed assembly, comparable in terms of Indian orders. In these circumstances, the desire to Russian defense industry, compensate for the loss of advancing the delivery time for Iraq are justified - bend at the price they are not collected. Move all of the customers could be early commissioning of the new unit Smith shops. However, there UVZ was ambushed - due to sanctions ordered equipment in Europe and there stuck. Under the new conditions the corporation's management is considering breaking contracts with European suppliers (in spite of a number of financial losses) and reorientation on equipment suppliers from China, South Korea, and possibly Japan.
