Armée Irakienne / Iraqi Armed Forces

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Iraq seeks to buy 36 F-16 fighters from U.S

Fri Sep 5, 5:32 AM ET

(Reuters) - The Iraqi government is seeking to buy 36 advanced F-16 fighters from the U.S., American military officials familiar with the request told the Wall Street Journal.


This move could help Iraq reduce its reliance on U.S. air power and potentially allow more American forces to withdraw from the country than had been proposed.

The F-16, made by Lockheed Martin Corp, is the most sophisticated weapons system Iraq has attempted to purchase so far.

Late in July, the U.S. Department of Defense had approved up to $10.7 billion in arms sales for Iraq, including a $2.16 billion sale of M1A1 Abrams tanks built by General Dynamics Corp.

The U.S. recently announced F-16 sales to Morocco and Romania. Those sales, each for roughly $100 million per plane with training, related equipment and support included, offer an indication of how lucrative the Iraq deal could be for Lockheed Martin and its suppliers.

Iraq now appears determined to significantly expand the air power of its military, which has become more competent and confident in recent months but depends heavily on the U.S. for air support.

Iraq quickly has become one of the biggest weapons buyers in the world as it seeks to strengthen and professionalise its fighting force.

No one was available at the U.S. Department of Defense for comment.

(Reporting by Sweta Singh in Bangalore, editing by Will Waterman)

EDIT:please mettez vos articles tjs en forme

je crois pas qu´ils lui repondront positif pour les Patriot,ils pourront donner un specimen a l´iran pour le copier

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Yakuza a écrit:

je crois pas qu´ils lui repondront positif pour les Patriot,ils pourront donner un specimen a l´iran pour le copier

en plus de ça si les israeline veulent traverser l'irak il aimerait pas voir de patriot ...

Mi-17


B407

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Navy Delivers Two Coastal Patrol Boats to Iraq


(Source: US Navy; issued March 21, 2013)



UMM QASR, Iraq --- The U.S. Navy delivered two more 35-meter patrol boats (PB-310 and PB-311) to the Iraqi navy at the Umm Qasr naval facility in Iraq, Feb. 17, after each craft successfully completed reactivation in Bahrain.

These are the 10th and 11th vessels in the 12-boat procurement which will assist in reconstituting Iraq's ability to enforce maritime sovereignty and security in the northern Arabian Gulf.

"Our Navy shipbuilding team has again succeeded in working closely with their Iraqi counterparts to deliver these important assets to the Iraqi navy," said Frank McCarthey, Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships' program manager for Support Ships, Boats and Craft. "Together with the nine patrol boats previously delivered, these two new vessels are a significant step toward meeting Iraq's security requirements in the northern Arabian Gulf."

The U.S. Navy and Swiftships Shipbuilders, LLC, Morgan City, La., are supporting the Iraqi navy in the procurement and construction of the patrol boats. The boat is armed with a 30 millimeter gun weapon system, provides for a crew of 25 and is capable of reaching 30 knots.

The Support Ships, Boats and Craft Program Office in the U.S Navy's PEO Ships, is managing the acquisition of the patrol boats as a foreign military sales case, with the final patrol boat planned for delivery later this year. In addition, the program office delivered two 60-meter offshore support vessels to the Iraqi Navy in December 2012.

PEO Ships currently manages the design and construction of all U.S. Navy destroyers, amphibious ships, special mission and support ships, as well as a wide range of small boats and craft for U.S. agencies and allied nations.

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/143657/us-navy-delivers-coastal-patrol-boats-to-iraq.html

y a t il des base militaires etrangeres en irak ? c est quoi le futur de ce pays ?

flixia[color=red] a écrit:

y a t il des base militaires etrangeres en irak [/color]? c est quoi le futur de ce pays ?

oui, l'ambassade US...
le futur : bien malin celui qi pourra te répondre. Plusieurs magazines (dont le nouvel obs) ont fait de bons dossiers sur l'irak, la guerre, la guerre civile et ses conséquences.

PGM

Le contrat d'armement de 4.2MM$ avec la Russie sera exécuté ... avec un bonus de 4 Mi-28

http://periscope2.ru/2013/04/01/7275/

M113 et M577



T-72

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Iraq to Receive Final Three C-130Js

MARIETTA, Ga., April 29, 2013 – The Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) is set to receive its final three Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] C-130J Super Hercules airlifters. Aircraft number 5721 was the first of these aircraft to be ferried from Lockheed Martin’s production facility here on April 23, 2013. All three C-130Js were ferried to U.S. Air Force bases prior to delivery to the IQAF.

The IQAF, a legacy C-130 operator, received its first C-130J in December 2012 and will have a total of six C-130Js in its new Hercules fleet. The IQAF uses the airlifters for intra-theater support for its troops and to provide humanitarian relief operations in various locations.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 118,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. The Corporation’s net sales for 2012 were $47.2 billion.

www.lockheedmartin.com

2nd batch

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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $830,000,000 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00008 ) to contract FA8615-12-C-6012 for additional production of 18 Iraq F-16 aircraft and associated support equipment, technical orders, integrated logistics support, contractor logistics support and an electronic warfare system. Work will be performed in Fort Worth with an expected completion date of April 30, 2014. This contract modification is foreign military sales with $406,700,000 obligated at time of award. This contract was a sole-source acquisition. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/WWMK at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity.

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Army completes armed helicopters’ delivery to Iraqis


The Army completed a milestone in helping to maintain stability in Iraq now that the U.S. military has departed.

The Armed Scout Helicopters Project Office, along with several representatives from different organizations on Redstone Arsenal, made the eighth delivery of the Iraqi Armed 407 Bell helicopters to Iraq.

Three IA-407s were rolled away from the Science and Engineering Services Inc., or SESi, hangar and into a C-17 military transport aircraft flown by the New York Air National Guard on April 3. This makes the 24th IA 407 aircraft and their associated support equipment to be delivered to Iraq.

Lt. Col. Chris Mills, product manager for the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter who is also leading the charge for the development and management of the Iraqi Armed 407 program, said the program is crucial for the U.S. and for the Army for several reasons.

“First, our Army is providing an armed scout capability to our allies in the country of Iraq. Second, we’re meeting the obligations of a foreign military sales case. And finally, this delivery showcases the capabilities of the Redstone Arsenal enterprise,” he said.

That enterprise is a total team approach from many organizations on Redstone. They include the Program Executive Office for Aviation with ASH Project Office, Security Assistance Command including the Security Assistance Training Management Office, Aviation and Missile Command with the Security Assistance Management Directorate, Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center with the Aviation Engineering Directorate and the Prototype Integration Facility, Army Contracting Command, Test and Evaluation Command with the Aviation Flight Test Directorate and Redstone Test Center, Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, SESi with the Joint Venture Yulista and SES, Joint Munitions Command, the Air Force, Garrison, the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq, and the Iraqi 21st Aviation Squadron in Iraq.

“This is an important milestone in this program,” Mills said. “The PM is the lead systems integrator, but almost all the major activities on the Arsenal were involved in the success here.”

Three training aircraft, or T-407s, were delivered to Iraq in 2010. The first production IA 407 was delivered in August 2012. “We’ve been delivering three a month except for March due to availability of transportation,” Mills said.

Three prototype aircraft will remain on Redstone in accordance with the Iraqis’ wishes for the aircraft’s future development and testing. “If they change their mind and want us to deliver those, then we will bring them to a production configuration and deliver them,” Mills said.

Hal Ridley, chief logistician for ARH Project Office, has made all the deliveries except for two. Mills noted that this is an impressive feat since each rotation takes from 10-15 days. “Each time the team returns from Iraq, we’re preparing for the next delivery, so it’s a pretty aggressive schedule,” Ridley said.

The delivery process has also been impressive. “The first time the team loaded the aircraft in the C-17, it took three hours,” Ridley said. “Now it takes them less than two hours.” The buildup of each aircraft has also become vastly efficient. “The first one took about three days. Now we’re knocking it out in two,” Ridley said.

The success of the program has proven that the resources needed for program success are resident on Redstone Arsenal and in the Huntsville area.

What makes the IA-407 program unique is that the Army had to take a commercial-of-the shelf, or COTS, platform like the Bell 407 and conduct a total reconfiguration according to the specifications that Iraq wanted. Most FMS cases, on the other hand, involve aircraft or products that are already built with some minor modifications made.

“The team proved that we could develop and prototype something here and actually produce it in a reasonable amount of time,” Ridley said.

The program also showed the Army both the positives and negatives of using COTS. “We knew the concept was possible,” said Ridley, “but there were risks.” The project office had to take a COTS product, modify it, then test it for military purposes.

“It becomes a big challenge for the program because of unique issues you run into converting commercial products into something for military use,” Ridley said. “Additionally, we had to take contractual concepts, look outside of the box in several cases because this program is something that a normal contracting process wouldn’t fit into.”

Through innovative ideas and hard work, the IA-407 program has become a model for possible future developmental FMS cases. “We broke the paradigm to get things done,” Mills said. “The project office served as the focal point, but we had to leverage all the capabilities on Redstone.”

From conceptual phase in 2009 to final delivery in 2013 is a relatively short amount of time compared to normal developmental programs.

“I’m very satisfied,” Mills said. “We’re fulfilling an obligation and an important security assistance mission. We’ve also gotten to know the customer in Iraq, and it’s satisfying to know that we’ve given our allies these capabilities that will enable them to protect their own country, as well as ours in the process.”

Ridley, who has been with the program since its inception, said it is very gratifying to have been a part of it from start to finish. “I’m very proud to be a part of the team that supplied a good product to the customer, and that they’re very happy with,” he said.

Said Mills, “The whole success of the program has been that everybody had to pull together as a team.”

The team made continuous improvements from day one through its many successors. Mills credited his project manager predecessors: Lt. Col. Jong Lee, who laid the groundwork for the program; and Lt. Col. Courtney Cote, who oversaw most of its execution.

“We just put our heads down and started working to get it done,” Mills said. “We leveraged support from across Redstone. It wasn’t just one organization.”

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Matériels militaires russes pour l'Irak: Moscou lance la réalisation du contrat

La Russie a lancé la production de matériels militaires, principalement d'hélicoptères, destinés à l'Irak, conformément à un contrat de quatre milliards de dollars signé en 2012, a annoncé jeudi à Amman le président du holding russe de hautes technologies Rostec Sergueï Tchemezov.

"Le contrat que nous avons signé avec l'Irak est entré en vigueur, nous avons lancé la production. Le contrat signé pendant une visite du chef du gouvernement irakien Nouri al-Maliki à Moscou porte surtout sur la livraison d'hélicoptères, son montant dépasse quatre milliards de dollars", a indiqué M.Tchemezov devant les journalistes.

Selon les informations précédentes, l'Irak et la Russie ont signé un accord sur l'achat d'armes russes pour 4,3 milliards de dollars en octobre 2012. Aucune information officielle sur les modalités du contrat n'a été communiquée.

Selon le directeur du Centre russe d'analyse du commerce mondial d'armes, Igor Korotchenko, il s'agit du plus gros contrat signé par Moscou en 2012.

RIAN

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Iraq confirms order for Russian-made combat helicopter Mi-28NE and Pantsir-S1 air defense system.

Russia has started fulfilling its recent arms exports contract with Iraq after receiving an advance payment from Baghdad, Russian Technologies (Rostech) CEO Sergei Chemezov said. “The contract is being implemented, the production of ordered equipment has started,” Chemezov told RIA Novosti at the opening ceremony of a Russian grenade-launcher assembly facility in Jordan on Thursday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki signed an arms package purchase agreement with Russia worth $4.2 billion during his visit to Moscow in October 2012.
Under the deal, Moscow is to supply 30 Mil Mi-28NE night/all-weather capable attack helicopters, and 50 Pantsir-S1 gun-missile short-range air defense systems.
The deal was suspended by Iraqi authorities a few weeks after the signing over suspicions of corruption. The Iraqi Parliament initiated an investigation into several officials suspected of taking kickbacks.
However, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in March 2013 that Iraq and Russia had initialed a revised deal and deliveries under the contract would start by summer.
The corruption investigation was closed shortly after but resumed in May. Iraqi officials said at the time the probe would not affect the Russian contract.





http://www.armyrecognition.com/june_2013_news_defence_security_industry_military/iraq_confirms_order_russian-made_combat_helicopter_mi-28ne_pantsir-s1_air_defense_system_0306131.html

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Irak : Un millier de soldats kurdes font défection

13 juin 2013 – 16:10

Déjà que l’unité de l’Irak est mise à mal par la rivalité entre chiites et arabes sunnites, l’annonce de la défection de plus d’un millier de soldats kurdes n’arrangera certainement pas la situation.
Membres de la 16e Brigade de l’armée irakienne, ces soldats ont indiqué avoir pris cette décision suite à un différend avec leur hiérarchie. En avril, il avaient en effet refusé de prendre part à une opération ordonnée par le gouvernement contre une ville majoritairement peuplée de sunnites.
Désormais, les 1.070 soldats kurdes qui ont fait défection, parmi lesquels l’on compte le commandant de la 16e Brigade ainsi que deux chefs de bataillons – remplacés depuis par des officiers arabes -, pourraient être intégrés aux peshmerga, c’est à dire les Gardes régionaux qui, dotés d’un armement léger, sont à la disposition du gouvenement régional kurde, étant donné que le Kurdistan irakien bénéficie d’une large autonomie reconnue par la constitution irakienne et par la communauté internationale.
“Si nous ne trouvons pas d’accord avec Bagdad au sujet de ces soldats, nous sommes prêts à les intégrer aux peshmerga”, a expliqué Halkurd Mullah Ali, le porte-parole du ministère des Gardes régionaux kurdes. Pour le moment, ces anciens militaires de l’armée irakienne sont sans solde et perçoivent seulement des rations de la part des autorités kurdes pour leur subsistance.

http://www.opex360.com/

Mi-17 with new armement

Signature d'un contrat au Bourget pour livrer des Ka-52 à l'Irak
http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_17/Russia-has-signed-with-iraq-a-contract-for-the-delivery-of-ka-52-helicopters-source-ria-novosti-5646/

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 Iraq; Navy launched plans for new base
Monday, 17 June 2013 05:49

The Iraqi Navy's Umm Qasr base is scheduled for further expansion to enable support of rapidly expanding fleet of patrol boats.
A new floating pier approximately 165 m in length will be constructed and attached to an existing concrete pier at the Umm Qasr base, according to a pre-solicitation notice of a tender that will be released by the US Army Corps of Engineers on 25 June. The notice said the contract will also involve dredging 900,000 m 3 of material so that the new pier can handle vessels with a draft of up to 6 m. Funded by US Foreign Military Financing, the contract is estimated to be worth USD10-25 million and is expected to take 900 days to complete after it has been awarded on 25 October.

 

http://dmilt.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7020:iraq-navy-launched-plans-for-new-base&catid=3:asia&Itemid=56

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Russia to Deliver 10 Helicopter Gunships to Iraq

MOSCOW, June 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will supply over 10 fully armed and equipped Mi-28NE Night Hunter attack helicopters to Iraq under a multi-billion dollar agreement, a representative of Russia’s state arms exporter told RIA Novosti on Friday.

Russia and Iraq signed a $4.3 billion agreement on cooperation in the defense and technology sector in 2012, and this is the first time the number of Night Hunters under the contract has been disclosed.

Alexander Mikheyev, deputy general director at Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, said that the helicopter contract also covers pilot and technical personnel training and the delivery of essential weapons systems.

This is the first contract with Iraq under the package agreement, he added.