The head of the Military Industrialization Authority in Iraq, Muhammad Sahib Al-Daraji, revealed the production of locally-made aircraft specialized in surveillance, but they are not fighters, indicating that 3 aircraft were produced and were subjected to experiments, and now the production process is underway.
Al-Daraji said during a television interview that the Joint Operations Command of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense had requested the manufacture of drones to monitor power lines, explaining that the new plane could be a "suicide plane."
He pointed out that "there are factions on the street that have drones, bombing and suicide bombers," explaining that it is not surprising that Iraq possesses suicide planes.
He stressed that the Military Industrialization Authority is one of the Iraqi state institutions, and the intelligence service works with us, and it is not a shame to produce armed or combat planes to defend our country, stressing not to hesitate to manufacture all that we can manufacture of weapons, missiles and planes.
Earlier, Iraq revealed a new homemade tank called "kafil-1", which is a modified and significantly modernized version of the old tanks, which were in the Iraqi army's arsenal of the two "T-55" models. 55) Soviet-made, and Chinese "Type-59".
And the website of the American magazine “FORBES” reported, in a report published by the Belgian “army recognition” website, which specializes in military industries, that the Kafeel-1 tank is distinguished by having a new, smaller turret and more modern interactive armor to protect its crew from RPGs. Or anti-tank missiles, which are a very important feature for the kind of battles the Iraqi army is fighting.
For his part, the commander of the Iraqi ground forces, Lieutenant-General Qassem al-Muhammadi, confirmed in previous statements to the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that there are new contracts to import advanced drones and artillery from France, noting that "there are two directions in armament, the American first, where there are advanced tanks, which are Abrams tanks." “(Abrams), and there are tanks equivalent to it, the T-90 of Russian origin, of which we have many, as well as many armored vehicles and a lot of existing equipment,” stressing that “there are plans to increase it and increase teams and brigades in order to increase the capabilities of Iraqi army".
He explained that "there are many contracts that include armed drones flying in Iraqi airspace for 30 hours and capable of addressing targets and continuous monitoring towards various regions, and they have proven their ability and effectiveness," noting that "there are excellent artillery that will be imported from France with high accuracy, in addition to weapons It has night-glasses, and a lot of contracts, some of which arrived at the port, and the other part in the factories to support the armed forces.”