Headquarters: | Baghdad |
Commander-in-Chief: | Abu Haziz |
Commander: | President of Iraq |
Branches: | Iraqi Ground Self-Defence Force Iraqi Air Self-Defence Force Iraqi Self-Defence Navy |
Active personnel: | 450,000 |
Reserve personnel: | 1,250,000 |
Deployed: | 0 |
Annual budget: | 11,3 billion |
In % of GDP: | 2,9% |
Founded in: | October 7 of 1994 |
Ages qualified for service: | 18 |
Available for service: | 8,233,400 males, age 16-49 7,827,012 females, age 15-49 |
Fit for service: | 7,422,000 males, age 16-49 7,015,00 females, age 16-49 |
Reaching age / yr: | 315,245 males 306,519 females |
Conscription law: | Volunteer for both males and females |
Supplying countries: | United States, France, Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Soviet Union, China, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary |
Annual arms imports: | 1,991 millions USD |
The Iraqi Self-Defence Forces, or ISDF, are the military forces of Iraq established shortly after the occupation of Iraq by coalition forces.
The mission of the ISDF is to protect Iraq`s sovereign territory from external threats and keeping internal peace. The ISDF are forbidden by constitutional decree to use military force in aggression to another country.
History[]
Following the Dissolution of Entities and Reorganization of the Iraqi Armed Forces treaty signed in May 12 of 1994 the former Iraqi Armed Forces were dissolved and reorganized into it`s current composition.
The ISDF saw much action in counter insurgency operations taken place during and after the Great Middle Eastern War and the coalition occupation, at that point the force was just a make up of re-integrated remnants from the former Iraqi Armed Forces with aid and treinament provided by the coalition and was unable to provide appropriate security against the Insurgency.
However, after the Al-Quseyr Jund militia was integrated into the regular forces and Saddam Hussein was captured the Insurgency slowly diminished and by 2003 the experienced ISDF finally brought peace to the restless country.
Currently the ISDF are seeking to increase it`s forces in response to perceived threats posed by an increasingly unstable Saudi regime.
Weapons[]
Personal:
- CZ-75 Handgun
- Makarov PM Handgun
- M9 Handgun
- M16 Assault Rifle
- G36 Assault Rifle
- AK-47 Assault Rifle
- Type 56 Assault Rifle
- AK-101 Assault Rifle
- M4 Carbine
- AKS-74U Carbine
- M-249 Light Machine Gun
- RPK Light Machine Gun
- Tabuk Sniper Rifle
- Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle
- M24 Sniper Rifle
- RPG-7 Rocket Launcher
- Type 69 Rocket Launcher
- AT4 Rocket Launcher
- RPG-29 Rocket Launcher
- GP-25 Grenade Launcher
- M203 Grenade Launcher
- SA-18 Man-Portable SAM
- RGD-5 Hand Grenade
- M67 Hand Grenade
Support Weapons:
- PK General Purpose Machine Gun
- Type 67 General Purpose Machine Gun
- M240 General Purpose Machine Gun
- NSV Heavy Machine Gun
- M2 Heavy Machine gun
- AGS-17 Automatic Grenade Launcher
- QLZ-87 Automatic Grenade Launcher
- SPG-9 Recoilless Gun
- AT-14 Spriggan Anti-Tank Missile
- Milan ATGM Anti-Tank Missile
- ZPU-4 Anti-Aircraft Gun
- ZU-23-2 Anti-Aircraft Autocannon
- Type 87 82mm Medium Mortar
- M120 120mm Heavy Mortar
Vehicles[]
Aircraft[]
Name | Type | Country of origin | Quantity | Picture |
Rafale C | Multirole fighter | France | 20 | |
JAS 39NG | Multirole fighter | Sweden | 36 | |
MiG-29M | Multirole fighter | Soviet Union | 10 | |
MiG-25PD | Interceptor | Soviet Union | 2 | |
Su-25K | Attack aircraft | Soviet Union | 19 | |
Ilyushin Il-76 | Cargo aircraft | Soviet Union | 27 | |
C-5B | Cargo aircraft | United States | 5 | |
Mi-8 | Transport helicopter | Soviet Union | 216 | |
Mi-25 | Attack helicopter | Soviet Union | 90 |
Land Vehicles[]
Name | Type | Country of origin | Quantity | Picture |
UAZ-469 | Light Utility Vehicle | Soviet Union | 92,000 | |
HMMWV | Light Utility Vehicle | United States | 9,500 | |
GAZ-3937 | Amphibious Light Utility Vehicle | Soviet Union | 1725 | |
Ural-4320 | Truck | Soviet Union | 18,000 | |
M939 | Truck | United States | 2,500 | |
BRDM-2 | Amphibious Armoured scout car | Soviet Union | 454 | |
M113 | Armoured personnel carrier | United States | 411 | |
MT-LB | Armoured personnel carrier | Soviet Union | 657 | |
Type 63 | Armoured personnel carrier | China | 212 | |
EE-11 | Armoured personnel carrier | Brazil | 247 | |
EE-9 | Armoured car | Brazil | 401 | |
EE-18 | Tank destroyer | Brazil | 34 | |
BMP-1 | Infantry fighting vehicle | Soviet Union | 1,045 | |
BMP-2 | Infantry fighting vehicle | Soviet Union | 374 | |
T-55 & variants | Main battle tank | Soviet Union / China / Poland / Czechoslovakia / Romania / Hungary / Locally produced | 1,123 | |
T-62 & variants | Main battle tank | Soviet Union / China / Poland / Czechoslovakia / Romania / Hungary | 472 | |
T-72 & variants | Main battle tank | Soviet Union / Poland / Czechoslovakia / Romania / Hungary | 109 | |
EE-T2 | Main battle tank | Brazil | 214 | |
Leopard 2A5 | Main battle tank | Germany | 200 | |
2S1 | Self-propelled artillery | Soviet Union | 91 | |
2S3 | Self-propelled artillery | Soviet Union | 11 | |
M-109A5 | Self-propelled artillery | United States | 50 | |
2A18 | Howitzer | Soviet Union | 280 | |
M198 | Howitzer | United States | 150 | |
BM-21 | Multiple rocket launcher | Soviet Union / Locally produced | 351 | |
Astros II | Multiple rocket launcher | Brazil | 96 | |
ZSU-23-4 | Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun | Soviet Union / Poland / Czechoslovakia / Romania / Hungary | 512 | |
SA-13 | Surface-to-air missile | Soviet Union | 42 | |
SA-15D | Surface-to-air missile | Soviet Union | 36 | |
SA-17 | Surface-to-air missile | Soviet Union | 112 | |
SA-22 | Surface-to-air missile | Soviet Union | 76 | |
MIM-104 PAC-3 | Surface-to-air missile | United States | 56 |