Dempsey: Iraq is unaware of the use of American aircraft bought it a year ago
Dempsey: Iraq is unaware of the use of American aircraft bought it a year ago
24/11/2014 (00:01 pm)
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Urged the United States, Iraq, the use of new military aircraft purchased in the war against Daash. Officials said Washington is pressing the Iraqi air force in order to start using the new fleet of transport aircraft C – 130 G, which reached Baghdad in 2013.
They said this is designed for use in a lot of tasks including air projections for infantry units and civilians trapped stranded aircraft.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, “They are doing what they can, and we’ll fill in the gaps in their abilities.” This came during a speech at a defense conference in Washington on the 19th of this month.
He said Dempsey, who just returned from Iraq, the United States put pressure on the Iraqi army in order to expand its operations, adding that it was the Iraqi air force is equipped with aircraft C-130 – LG and other means of war against Daash In August 2013 the US manufacturing company (Lockheed Martin) handed over the last of these aircraft to Iraq.
During his visit to Iraq, the Iraqi army asked Dempsey said the United States to drop supplies to civilians trapped on Mount Sinjar, individual advisers to the US Army that Baghdad could do such tasks through the use of these aircraft.
Dempsey said “It turns out that all they need is experience in the operation of output umbrella in the process of projection system,” he said, adding that the Iraqi army and security forces expelled Daash from strongholds in the surrounding areas of Baghdad, the US military – more than 3,100 fighters – was preparing to expand Iraqi air operations in support of ground forces.
Dempsey says, “Their performance is improving a lot, but they have some structural weaknesses which must be repaired.”
In another aspect, the newspaper reported (World Tribune) discovered that Iraq air shipments of weapons in a North Airports sent to organize Daash. Wherein said of quitting Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Security and Defense Daash receive air shipments of weapons from foreign financiers did not identify.
Zamili said in a press statement made by the 17th of this month, “The aircraft landed in the Afar region, which is controlled by Daash north of the country and that some countries are financed Daash arms adopting planes landing in Mosul, Tal Afar, near the airport.” Zamili did not specify the financiers, but suggested that the supplies were arriving from the former Soviet republics.
In the middle of this month, a Russian landed filled with weapons and gear in the Baghdad International Airport, a plane, and officials said the plane was carrying 40 tons of cargo, has reached Baghdad after landing in the prevention of Sulaimaniya airport in the Kurdistan region.
Zamili said “the plane that landed last week in Baghdad, was loaded with weapons was not the first landing and violate Iraqi airspace, and is still under investigation in this case.”
Zamili urged the Iraqi air force and its Western allies to destroy the airport runway Tal Afar, near Mosul, pointing out that the Daash controls the other airports in the north of the country. He said, “I ask the Iraqi air force hit Afar Airport and other airports under the control of Daash in Iraq.”
about: World Tribune
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