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| Subject: | Re: Iraqi National Guard Armored Vehicles |  |
| Date: | May 3, 2005 |
| From: | Kyle Mizokami | |
I grabbed a few pictures off Yahoo! news in January. I believe it was a parade announcing the activation of Iraq's first mechanized infantry battalion. There were pictures of a T-55 and a MTLB with a ZU-23 mounted on top. I put the pictures up here:
http://homepage.mac.com/kylemi/PhotoAlbum74.html
Ah, this explains it:
"Four T-55s mothballed by the old Iraqi Army have been refurbished and transported on low loaders from the old army base in al-Muqdadiyah north of Baghdad to the training base at Taji. The Iraqi army took another step forward in the security of their nation in January 2005 by mobilizing the 1st Mechanized Brigade, an armor unit. Based in Taji, the unit conducted its first operational mission this week with two presence patrols using both MTLB vehicles and T-55 tanks. The brigade also assumed part of the security mission at the Ministry of Defense by stationing BMPs on the MOD grounds."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/nia.htm |
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