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Vehicle I-D: Egyptian Armor درع المصري

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Egyptian Ministry of Defense video report from October 2021, showing M60A3, BTR-50, ZSU-23-4, and other weapon systems:

Egyptian Ministry of Defense promotional video showing artillery systems, including the M109, MLRS and ZSU-23-4, October 2021:

In 2020, Egypt agreed to buy 5-hundred of the Russian T-90MS.

Music video report, wargame Qadir 2020:

Fahd armored car, June 2019.

Egyptian Ministry of Defense video report from November 2019, air defense artillery (ADA), including ZSU-23-4 and other tracked ADA vehicles:

Exercise Bright Star 2018, U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Keeler.

Egyptian Army M1A1 Abrams during Exercise Bright Star 2018, Mississippi National Guard photo by Specialist Jovi Prevot.

M113, U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Keeler, 13SEP2018.

USAF video by Staff Sergeant John Raven, Egyptian M1A1 live fire at the end of Bright Star 2017:

YPR-765 used during the anti-terrorist action on the Sinai Peninsula, 2013.

YPR-765 guarding the border with Gaza, August 2012.

M60A1 during 2012 uprisings.

Egyptian BTR-50, 12OCT2009. Photo by U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Matt Epright.

Egyptian M109 Self Propelled Howitzer, 15SEP2005, photo by U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Licea.

An M113 ‘medic track’, 15SEP2005, photo by U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Licea.

An Egyptian Fahd with a BMP-2 turret (Fahd 240), late 1990s, NATO SFOR (Stabilization Force) in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Fahd armored car about to be sent to Liberia for ‘peacekeeping’ duty. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Paul R. Caron, 23FEB1997.

Egyptian Army M60A1, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeffrey T. Brady, 18NOV1993.

The 105mm main gun of this M60A1 has been blown out-of-battery. Notice the damage at the end of the barrel, the missing search light, and the position of the bore evacuator! USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeffrey T. Brady, 18NOV1993.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Greg Suhay, 01NOV1993.

This is a U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner, showing Egyptian 3rd Armored Brigade’s M60s demonstrating their smoke grenade launchers, apparently in Saudi Arabia. The problem with the rest of the info is that it says it is during Operation Desert Shield, but gives the date as May 1992. Desert Shield ended on 17JAN1991!

Another USAF photo by Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner, with another incorrect date for Desert Shield; ‘September 1991’. Desert Shield was from August 1990 to 17JAN1991.

Decontaminating an Egyptian M109 155mm self-propelled howitzer, December 1990, Operation Desert Shield. USAF photo credited to Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, of U.S. troops checking out an Egyptian BTR-50, during the first Bright Star wargame, November 1980:

Helicopters: EGYPT مصر

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Vehicle I-D: Iraqi Armor, after the invasion

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On 13JUN2019, the Iraqi army unveiled a new tank; the al-Kafeel-1.  Note that it uses an M2 .50 caliber machine gun in a remote controlled mount.  Russian news sources say the tank is based on Iraq’s experience fighting Islamic extremists, and Iraq’s use of the M1A1M.   It is strange that most ‘western’ news sources didn’t report about the Iraqi developed tank until more than a year after its unveiling.  Speculative reports say it was developed with help from China.

Inside of BTR-80.  9th Iraqi Army Division Warrant Officer explains to U.S. troops how it works.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Mary S. Katzenberger, 27SEP2010.

 

Ukrainian made BTR-94, 2018.

Ukrainian made BTR-94 blocks 14th of July bridge in Baghdad, 15AUG2004. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob N. Bailey.

Ukrainian made BTR-4, reports say Iraq was not happy with the BTR-4, claiming they were not ‘new builds’ and had corroded bodies (Ukrainian investigation links the defective BTR-4s to the now infamous corruption scandal plaguing the Office of the U.S. President).

BTR-4 variants, the BSEM-4K ambulance and BTR-4 armored personnel carriers with 30mm gun turrets.

‎U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kalie Jones Frantz, 06FEB2016.

A mystery modified M113 seen at Camp Taji, February 2016.  It’s not a ACV or YPR765.  A homegrown modification?

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kalie Jones Frantz, 06FEB2016.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist William Lockwood, 11FEB2016.

Camp Taji, February 2016.

M113 ACAV, U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kalie Jones Frantz, 07FEB2016.

M113, U.S. Army photo by Sergeant David Strayer, 28APR2011.

M113, Kirkush Military Training Base, April 2011.

Notice the use of wide ‘snow’ tracks. Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 12MAY2005.

MTLB, May 2005.

Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 06MAY2005.

This one has the standard width tracks. Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 06MAY2005.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Sean Hanson.

March 2007.  This tank is a Chinese Type 69 (Iraqi designation for Chinese Type 69 is T-55B), as denoted by the headlights on both fenders and the camera/laser sighting system on the mantlet.

Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 12MAY2005.

May 2005, Type 69/T-55B.

Notice the U.S. antenna. Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 12MAY2005.

BMP-1, October 2005:

Rebuilt BMP-1s on Camp Taji, 07OCT2005.

BMP-1, January 2007:

BMP-1, Camp Taji. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Jon Cupp, 17JAN2007.

Video Camp Taji boneyard, T-72 turret lift, 2009:

T-62, March 2010:

T-62s in the ‘Bone Yard’. Tennessee Army National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Desiree Pavlick, 17MAR2010.

Graveyard of T-62 and T-72, October 2005:

Camp Taji ‘boneyard’, 10JUL2005.

T-72, Camp Butler/Butler Gunnery Range, February 2006:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Brent Hunt, 16FEB2006.

Low quality video from February 2006, supposedly it was the first time Iraqis were able to fire their T-72s since the U.S. invasion:

T-72, Forward Operating Base Hammer, October 2008:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Evan Loyd, 31OCT2008.

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Evan Loyd, 31OCT2008.

2008 Besmaya Range gunnery video (by U.S. Army Specialist Neil A. Stanfield):

T-72, Besmaya Range Complex, April 2010:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Jared Eastman, 14APR2010.

Checking out a ‘newer’ T-72, apparently donated by NATO-Czech Republic, April 2016:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Paul Sale, 05APR2016.

Iraqis began training on U.S. M1A1 Abrams in 2008-09:

Besmaya Range Complex, 31MAR2009. U.S. Army photo by Captain Thomas Avilucea.

According to a U.S. Defense Department news release, between August 2010 and the end of 2011, 140 M1A1M Abrams tanks were delivered to Iraq as part of a 2008 military sales agreement.

According to the the U.S. Army, these were the last of the 140 Abrams delivered to Iraq:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Edward Daileg, 29AUG2011.

In 2016, BMP-1s were positioned for the Mosul Offensive against so-called Islamic State:

U.S. Army photo, 18OCT2016.

In February 2018, it was revealed that an Iraqi militia unit funded by Iran acquired nine of the M1A1Ms.

Blurry image showing Iranian funded Iraqi militia hauling an M1A1.

In June 2018, Iraq announced it was trading the M1A1M for the Russian T-90S.

The first T-90S and T-90SK were delivered by November 2019.

M109A1, Firebase Saham, December 2018.

U.S. Army photo by Captain Jason Welch, 03DEC2018.

For some strange reason the official U.S. Army information that accompanied the pic states this is a “M109 Paladin”, but it is clearly not an M109A6 Paladin (which is a radical upgrade of the M109 series), it is a M109A1.

In 2008, U.S. Army officials decided to allow Iraq to refurbish several M109A1s abandoned in the ‘boneyard’ of Camp Taji: “Last fall, our brigade commander was given guidance by the 9th IA commander to pull out of the Taji boneyard roughly a battalion’s worth of M109A1 howitzers.”-Major Matthew DeLoia, Military Transition Team-Pennsylvania National Guard’s 109th Field Artillery Regiment, July 2009

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