Iraq intends to purchase an integrated air defense system of the United States

Iraq intends to purchase an integrated air defense system of the United States

07/08/2013 12:00 AM


White demanding political forces not to disable arming the army
Baghdad morning - Translation just Hammoud
Iraq's progress to the Security Cooperation Agency in the U.S. Defense Department official request to import air defense system integrated worth up to two billion and four hundred million dollars.
in the meantime, demanded the Iraqi bloc white all forces politics in the House of Representatives with the support of security forces in confronting terrorism and not to disrupt the arms deals that the government seeks to concluded with foreign countries to strengthen the country's security.
government is seeking to arm the army all صنوفه, where contracted with a number of global manufacturers of weapons developed including the United States of America for the purpose of processing the army of armored vehicles and tanks advanced aircraft and helicopter gunships, including the F16 announced by the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Nouri al-Maliki, last May, that Iraq will receive the first batch of them in 2014. According to the newspaper "DAVINES News Daily", the agency said security cooperation in the U.S. Defense Department said Iraq made ​​a formal request to import air defense system Mtkalmh includes 40 system launch of a kind Ivnger It is a system to fire rockets and bombs short-term can be carried on Humvees. This is the system more sophisticated than the systems similar terms used system scoring their own instead of steering system is located in the command center.
includes system processors Maekeroah of F-IM -92 H Block any allocated to address المايكروية missiles Astingr addition to the three Collectors missiles are six units firing up the system Hawk, which has the capacity of up to address the ballistic missile extent of up to 35 mph .
and use the system Hawk is currently in a lot of Iraq's neighboring countries such as Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
, the newspaper said that "the order Iraqi include 216 missile hook type or IM tactical and six centers to direct flames and 6 radars, high-quality and headquarters operations itinerant and system assembly Miniature. "
as requested by Iraq's import 13 radar medium-range Type 13 any NM ABQ - 64 F, and which can be used to guide and rocket fire hook, as well as 7 systems, command and control and reconnaissance and 75 system Radio type Singrs.
included order also system broadcast and receiver Joey operate waves high and has a capacity of Raiduah strong, as well as installations and buildings under the floor of the command center and one of the central operations of air defense as well as Sanitary backup and repair services and systems support for the Soft and ware and systems linked units and systems connect to the Association and documentation techniques and operations personnel training and processing personal working on the system.
The agency noted that the air defense system will include radars, long-range Lockheed Martin T-CBS -77 and ten radar medium-range, confirming that the value of the order will reach two billion and four hundred million dollars.
noted that Iraq has a Convention on the strategic and security with Washington allows the final processing of Iraq's weapons U.S..
, it demanded that the Iraqi bloc white, on Tuesday, the political forces in the House of Representatives with the support of security forces in responding to the forces of terror and to stop the process of disabling arms deals that the government seeks to concluded with foreign countries to strengthen the country's security.
said secretary general mass beauty melon for "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network, "" The issue of support for the security forces became obligatory on every Iraqi, whether within the political blocs or individuals, because our presence and our worth, especially the political forces of the power of the security services. "
and added that "the various political forces to leave the phenomenon of objection to the arms deals that government seeks to conclusion to strengthen the capacity of the army, "stressing that" it is objected to at the moment on arming the army through the recipes weapons but wants to keep the army is weak. "
It is said that the Kurds and the Sunni Arabs, who had voiced fears of trades contracts for weapons, signed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with the governments of Russian, Czech, also demanded the Kurds inclusion Peshmerga them.
continued melon that "excuses from the fear that the use of weapons in the attack on the neighboring countries and frail, فعقيدة new Iraqi army list to defend the country's borders from external aggression."
It is noteworthy that the army currently consists of 15 military band mostly infantry divisions estimated many of its members around 350 thousand soldiers, and owns at least 140 tanks Abrams American newly manufactured, in addition to 170 Russian tanks and Hungarian-made, most of them in aid from NATO to the Iraqi government and hundreds of personnel carriers and heavy artillery and rocket launchers , as well as a number of Russian helicopters and American-made, and a number of naval vessels in the port of Umm Qasr to protect Iraq's oil export operations.

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