Kurdistano wrote:@Rando agreed with you but it is not true that the Iraqi Army is more modern than the Peshmerga. The differences are minimal. Baghdad bought 15 F16 Jets but as a response to the reactions from Turkey and what is happening now with Maliki they dont want to sell anymore F16 to them. The Peshmerga based on weapons are on the same level as the Iraqi Army but who knows for how long? Baghdad will definitely arm themselves more thats why it sounds in my ears very stupid when someone says "Kurdistan doesnt need to buy Jets".
It is the US who are selling the Jets to them.
Iraq makes first payment in deal to buy 18 US F-16s
US and Iraqi officials say the purchase of the jets will provide the basis for Iraq's air sovereignty
BBC
Iraq has made the first payment in a deal to buy 18 US F-16 fighter jets worth a total of about $3bn (£1.9bn), the US state department has said.
The planes, which are not expected to be delivered until next year, are to protect the country's air space.
There are currently some 44,000 US troops in Iraq, which are due to leave by the end of this year.
US and Iraqi officials said the purchase of the jets would provide the basis for Iraq's air sovereignty.
"The air force is considered a vital factor to protect Iraq's sovereignty and security against external threats," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.
"Iraq needs to build its air force and to depend on its own capabilities to defend the skies instead of asking other countries to do so - especially if we know that the US forces will leave at the end of this year."
Mr al-Dabbagh said $1.4bn has already been transferred as a partial payment.
http://kurdishglobe.net/display-article ... 261D639991 There's the site.
Another thing, while Iraq gets US weapons like m4, we get the weapons from saddam AK-47. The arabs gets the tanks from US, we get our tanks from Saddam. But still when Peshmerga were as weakest with no weapon support from Iran after a deal between iraq-iran, barzani fucked up 10 000 iraqi soldiers, that's how we got the autonomy. Iraqs chemical weapons factories are all blown up, destroyed. Still in case of a threat 5-8 Jets would be good to have. But we can only compare this with iraq, we have an good chance defeating them. But we can't compare ourself with Iran and Turkey. There is a big chance turkey gets involved in case of war with arabs.











