VIDEOS: C-RAM air defense system engaging rockets in the night sky over Baghdad. December 20, 2020. No reports of any civilian or coalition military casualties but at least three rockets had impacted the Green Zone. C-RAM scrambled and was online within minutes to intercept the next series of barrages.
This is unrelated, but showed up in the tweet feed. Interesting...
I have heard of captured coalition military equipment being sold in Iraqi bazaars during the height of the troop surge and fighting, but a brand new FN built M16-A4 in 2020??? Probably Iraqi Army equipment that have been sold onto the market by officers and enlisted men themselves. The contemporary Iraqi army is efficient and quite skilled at taking on terrorists, as they have shown with ISIS recently, but at the same time, they are rife with corruption on a scale that makes them on par with the Mexican Federales and provincial police...
This is unrelated, but showed up in the tweet feed. Interesting...
I have heard of captured coalition military equipment being sold in Iraqi bazaars during the height of the troop surge and fighting, but a brand new FN built M16-A4 in 2020??? Probably Iraqi Army equipment that have been sold onto the market by officers and enlisted men themselves. The contemporary Iraqi army is efficient and quite skilled at taking on terrorists, as they have shown with ISIS recently, but at the same time, they are rife with corruption on a scale that makes them on par with the Mexican Federales and provincial police...