Comments on: Czech Company Sells Tanks to Iraq to fight ISIS

By: Emanicas

Emanicas — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:36:22 +0000

Anti-tank guided missile missiles

By: Corthag

Corthag — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 03:28:18 +0000

Ukraine is too volatile and untransparent to just send in military hardware beyond small arms. It would require a foreign intervention with soldiers on the ground, but nobody wants that … for now. Even Putin fights a war of denial.

In Iraq the enemy is clear and its also conveniently far away.

By: Corthag

Corthag — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 03:23:02 +0000

Gas turbines are crap in desert environments. They break down quickly and require much maintenance time. Canada, for example, sent their M1′s home and leased german Leopard 2 MBTs.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:00:09 +0000

Selling this to Iraq? Great, you might as well have just donated them to ISIS considering how the Iraqi military’s done so far.

You know I wonder if after this is over we’ll be making the same kind of “we surrender” jokes about Iraq as we do about France (I do that already)…

By: NPC

NPC — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:36:21 +0000

If recent history is any indication, the title should read: “Czech Company Provides Tanks to IS via Iraqi Army”.

By: LaterTimeLord

LaterTimeLord — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:20:03 +0000

T-72M1… Wait, if I remember correctly, this is the variant the Soviets’ tried to sell a couple decades ago, when they allowed the T-72 sold to the “friendly” countries. They didn’t fare well, as far as I remember.

My guess is that the history is re-occuring. Well, whatever, less Iraqi population means less insurgency…

By: Lee Sphar

Lee Sphar — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:50:38 +0000

I think what you meant to say was, “Czech company sells tanks to ISIL using the Iraqi Army as an intermediary”. The reason nobody wants to sell tanks to Iraq is because then we just end up having to bomb them later when the overwhelmingly corrupt army bugs out leaving all their armor, arty, and various and sundry other items for ISIL to walk in and resupply themselves with. They just can’t get past the whole Shia/Sunni thing to actually put together a cohesive force.

By: Baandrup

Baandrup — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:17:25 +0000

Missiles*

By: CaptianNemo

CaptianNemo — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:11:26 +0000

“It’s Happening”

By: red_warning

red_warning — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:54:25 +0000

I think you may be confusing the Turkish Kurds with the Iraqi Kurds. The Kurds in Iraq have been victims if anything, Saddam for instance gas-bombed Kurdish villages to test the effectiveness of Iraqi chemical weaponry.