Iraqi Military Equipment

Equipment of the Iraqi Armed Forces

The Iraqi military has never fully recovered from the Coalition invasion of 2003. Despite years of training and hundreds of millions of US dollars, the Iraqi military dissolved without much of a fight in the face of the offensive by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS/Daesh). At least 15,000 Iraqi soldiers equipped with advanced American equipment and main battle tanks fled from a force about one-tenth that size equipped with light weapons and technicals. Since the complete collapse of Iraqi forces in 2014 after the battle of Mosul, the Iraqi military has regrouped and been retrained by instructors from at least a dozen different countries, including the United States, Canada, Denmark, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, claims of ethnic cleansing have persisted, with some stating that Iraqi military/police forces either took part in or allowed acts of violence to take place. 

The Iraqi military is supported by predominately-Shia militias, known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), some of whom receive weapons, training, and other supplies from Iran. In the north, they are supported by the Kurdish Peshmerga. Recently the Iraqi military has made some solid advances, with heavy Coalition air support. The cities of Ramadi and Hit have been cleared in the past few months, and despite extremely heavy levels of destruction to those cities, they are no longer under the control of the extremists. 

Iraqi Army

Main Battle Tank

•  M1A1 Abrams
•  T-72
•  T-55

Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle 

•  BRDM-2
•  EE-9 Cascavel 
•  Fuchs NBC Recce 

Infantry Fighting Vehicle

•  BMP-1
•  BTR-4
•  BTR-80A

Armored Personnel Carrier, Tracked 

•  M113A2 (Talha)
•  MT-LB

Armored Personnel Carrier, Wheeled 

•  Akrep/Scorpion
•  Cobra

Protected Patrol Vehicle 

•  Barracuda
•  Caiman
•  Dzik-3
•  ILAV Badger 
•  Mamba
•  International MaxxPro

Self-Propelled Artillery 

•  152 mm Type-83
•  155 mm M109
•  M109A1
•  M109A5

Towed Artillery 

•  130 mm M-46/Type-59
•  152 mm M-20
•  152 mm M198

MLRS

•  122 mm BM-21
•  220 mm TOS-1A

Mortar

•  81 mm M252 
•  150 mm M120
•  240 mm M240

MANPATS

•  9K135 Kornet (AT-14 Spriggan)

Armored Recovery Vehicle 

•  BREM
•  M88A1/2
•  T-54/55 ARV
•  Type-653
•  VT-55A

Attack Helicopter

•  Mil Mi-28NE Havoc
•  Mil Mi-35M Hind

Multirole Helicopter 

•  SA352 Gazelle
•  Bell IA407
•  H135M
•  Mil Mi-17 Hip

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Helicopter 

•  OH-58C Kiowa

Transport Helicopter 

•  Bell 205
•  Bell 206B3 JetRanger
•  Bell T407

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 

•  CH-4

Anti-Ship Missile 

•  9K114 Shturm (AT-6 Spiral)
•  AR-1
•  Ingwe

Iraqi Navy

Offshore Patrol Craft

•  Al Basra (US River Hawk)

Coastal Patrol Craft w/ AShM

•  Fateh (Italian Diciotti)

Patrol Boat

•  Swiftships 35
•  Predator (PRC-27m)
•  Al Faw

River Patrol Boat 

•  Type-200
•  Type-2010

Iraqi Air Force 

Fighter/Ground Attack

•  General-Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
•  F-16C
•  F-16D

Attack

•  Aero L-159 Albatros 
•  Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot
•  Su-25
•  Su-25K
•  Su-2UBK

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance 

•  Cessna AC-208B Combat Caravan
•  SB7L-360 Seeker
•  Beechcraft King Air 350ER

Transport 

•  Lockheed-Martin C-130E Hercules
•  Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Hercules 
•  Antonov An-32B Cline 
•  Beechcraft King Air 350
•  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
•  Cessna 172

Training

•  CH-2000 Sama
•  Lasta-95
•  T-6A

Air-to-Surface Missile 

•  AGM-114 Hellfire 

Laser-Guided Bomb

•  GBU-12 Paveway 

Air Defence Command 

Self-Propelled Surface-to-Air Missile System

•  96K6 Pantsir-S1 (SA-22 Greyhound)
•  M1097 Avenger

MANPADS

•  9K338 Igla-S (SA-24 Grinch) 

Towed Anti-Aircraft Gun

•  23 mm ZU-23
•  57 mm S-60