Some notes on mountain units
Formations 100 : Mountain Co
Formation 105: Mountain Pl
They should have final availability date restricted to 4/2003.
Unit 517: Mountain Sec
Final availability date should be restricted to 12/1991
RPD machine guns were being superceded by PKM/RPK.
Unit 520: Mountain Sec
It should have the RPG-16D in slot 3 replaced with weapon n.18 RPG-7. Availability dates should be changed to 1/1980-4/2003
RPG-16D were pretty rare among iraqi forces.
Unit 518-519: Mountain Sec
They should be deleted.
RPG-16D were pretty rare among iraqi forces and BG-15 grenade launchers were even more rare, if available at all. They would have been reserved for the special forces and in any case iraqi mountain units are described as using standard weapons in the available sources.
To summarize the background.
Iraqi army mountain infantry units ceased to exist during April 2003 along with the rest of the army.
For a variety of political and military reasons the process of military reconstruction has not contemplated raising mountain infantry units until 2009.
A couple of mountain infantry divisions, the 15th and 16th, are now being raised by transferring kurdish paramilitary under iraqi military command. This will probably lenghty and complicated and in in any case mountain infantry units will not, in all likelyhood, have the same company structure of the old army. Therefore I have suggested a 4/2003 cutoff.
Sources:
http://www.specialoperations.com/For...q/Mountain.htm
http://www.longwarjournal.org/multimedia/OOBpage5- IGFC-North.pdf And others.
Some notes about artillery
A clone of unit 536 AMX-10P could also be added.
This new unit would be reclassed as class 57, renamed AMX-10 VLA and have 1/1983-4/2003 as availability dates. These vehicles were used as forward observers for the french supplied artillery systems (Unit 357 AUF-1 GCT).
Source SIPRI, Acig.org
Units 92 and 183: 5.5 Inch FG
Final availability dates don’t match with unit 92 ending at 12/1989 and unit 183 at 12/1974
All sources do indeed point to it being already out of service by 1991 but an out of service date is a bit hard to pick. As a possible solution unit 92 final availability could be set to 12/1974, as it seems at least plausible for an out of service date.
Units 85 and 170: 25 Pdr FG and 25pdr Platoon
Final availability dates don’t match with unit 85 ending at 12/1960 and unit 170 at 12/1969.
As a possible and plausible solution unit 85 final availability could be set to 12/1969 like for unit 170.
Unit 299: ZU-23 AA-Gun
Final availability date could be extended to 12/2020
They are still being used on fire support vehicles but they could be used dismounted if needed.
Source: pictures