America supplied Iraq with military vehicles represent suicide to its users
America supplied Iraq with military vehicles represent suicide to its users
Date: 09/30/2015 17:53
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confirmed the American site “Fox News Sunday” that dozens of US military vehicles of the model MRAP “” dedicated to the transport of persons, which amounted to Kurdistan where no side shields, while one of the Contracting innocents who works with the Kurds pointed out that the leadership of such vehicles in the field of battles with Daash tantamount to suicide.
According to a report of the site and translated Agency / information / fan “of the United States had promised its Iraqi allies by providing them with 250 vehicles from model MRAP” “which is supposed to be mine-resistant to help in fighting al Daash terrorist”, but former member of the US military in Iraq Phil Hudykort said that “the use of those vehicles without side shields is very dangerous and the US military calls a magnet RPGs.”
He continued by saying, “I do not know at any level made Is the high level or the low but used a stupid decision too, because the leadership of such vehicles with the presence of all these quantities of weapon RPG-29 as the country is tantamount to suicide.
“The side shields for this type of vehicles have been added during the toppling of Saddam regime war in 2003 after the field commanders aware that the vehicle is designed to resist mines improvised explosive devices from the ground for being armored from the bottom but they are not protected from the side which makes them easy prey for RPG launchers and grenades.
A member of the special forces, the former senior official in the US Department of Defense Steve Bucci, “At first we thought that the Iraqi government will do something or will some tricks because the vehicle is equipped with side shields but it seems that armor bulletproof and bombers is very expensive.
“On the other hand held the foreign and defense ministries of the Americas investigation into the images that the report published on the vehicles in Iraq as well as Kurdish claims need to develop armor, but the US State Department said “The side shields is an upgrade of the vehicle and not an order record in addition to that this technology is not available to any of its allies.”
American officials confirmed that the compounds provide protection against improvised explosive devices and landmines and that the Iraqi government has paid $ 73 300 dollars for shipping and renewal of all used vehicle while New armored price of which $ 400 thousand.
Pucci said that “if we can not provide them with high-tech vehicles sent to the war zones below the required level is folly because it will not work to protect soldiers in the manner required of them.” Finished / 25 p
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