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Zebari: “Iraq-Russia Intend to Fulfill $4 Billion Arms Deal”
2013-02-25 Read More...
Moscow and Baghdad are going ahead with a more than $4 billion deal that would make Russia Iraq's second largest arms supplier, Iraq's Foreign Minister said on Friday, contradicting reports the contract was scrapped over possible

3 Bell 407 Scout Helicopters Delivered to Iraq
2013-01-16 Read More...
The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command with U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command and Program Executive Office Aviation facilitated and delivered 3 Bell 407 Scout helicopters to Iraqi Army

Iraq Requests VSAT Equipments & Services
2012-12-28 Read More...
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress December 21 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Iraq for Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) operations and maintenance services and associated equipment, parts,

Iraq Takes Delivery of C-130J Super Hercules
2012-12-13 Read More...
Lockheed Martin delivered a C-130J Super Hercules to the Iraqi Air Force at formal ceremonies in Marietta, Georgia on 12 December

Iraq’s Kurdistan President Inspects Peshmerga Forces
2012-12-13 Read More...
Massud Barzani, the President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, inspected Kurdish Peshmerga Security Forces in the disputed north Iraq province of Kirkuk earlier this week, a Kurdish General

Iraq Will Renegotiate $4.2 Billion Arms Deal with Russia
2012-11-14 Read More...
Iraq will renegotiate the $4.2- billion arms deal which it initially agreed upon with Russia as allegations of bribe being paid for it have emerged, Xinhua

Iraq Cancels $4.2bn Arms Deal with Russia
2012-11-12 Read More...
Iraq has cancelled $4.2 billion arms deal with Russia over suspected corruption, but plans to renegotiate the agreements to help equip its Armed Forces, a spokesman for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on

Iraq Presses U.S. for Quicker Delivery of 18 F-16s
2012-10-22 Read More...
Iraq called for the US to speed up its weapons deliveries as the two countries near a deal on a second set of 18 F-16s, days after Baghdad signed $4.2 billion in arms deals with

Iraq to Acquire 28 Czech Combat Jets for $1bn
2012-10-15 Read More...
Iraq has agreed to buy 28 combat planes from the Czech Republic for about $1 billion as part of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's program to rebuild the country's Air Force and control its vulnerable

Iraq-Russia Sign $4.2 Billion Arms Deal
2012-10-10 Read More...
Iraq has signed contracts in recent months to buy more than $4.2 billion worth of weapons from Russia, according to a document issued on Tuesday at a meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry

BAE Systems to Build 8 Recovery Vehicles for Iraqi Army
2012-10-09 Read More...
BAE Systems received a $31.8 million foreign military sale contract to produce 8 M88A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift Evacuation Systems (HERCULES) for the Iraqi

Iraq's 1st Super Hercules Completes 1st Flight
2012-09-07 Read More...
The first of 6 C-130J Super Hercules for the Iraqi Air Force recently completed its first flight here.

Iraqi Pilots Start F-16 Training in Arizona
2012-09-03 Read More...
While Iraq anticipates an initial delivery of F-16 Fighting Falcons in September 2014, the pilots who will fly them embarked on a historic partnership with the Arizona Air National Guard's 162nd Fighter Wing to learn how to fly the multipurpose

Iraq Receives Final Batch of 9 M1A1 Abrams Tanks
2012-08-30 Read More...
Iraq’s military took delivery of 9 American M1A1 Abrams tanks, the last in an order of 140 that it has received over the past two years, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said in a statement on

Iraq to Receive 18 F-16 Fighter Jets in March 2013
2012-08-27 Read More...
Iraq expects to receive the first group of F-16 warplanes next year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's spokesman said, after US officials said the aircraft would not arrive until

Air Traffic Control & Landing System to Iraq
2012-08-17 Read More...
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Iraq for commercially available Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic

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