I have an opportunity to make a good deal about several Zvezda/DML kits including BTR 70s and 80s and I was wondering if Iraq uses (or used ) them ? Can't find any pics...

TIA
Frenchy

According to my '96-'97 volume of Jane's Armour & Artillery they didn't have them, so Desert Storm would be out. Guess they could've bought them since, though...

Cheers

Olaf

So, let's see what comes out from Google... String for the search: BTR-70 Iraq

[PDF]Key Targets in Iraq
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... with some heavy weapons, including PT-76 light tanks and BTR-70 armored personnel ... Iraq’s
Ministry of Information has served as both a particularly strong and ...
www.csis.org/stratassessment/reports/iraq_targets.pdf - Páginas Semelhantes

Hi Ricardo and Olaf
I have already made this Google search. According to this site, Saddam's Fedayens were equipped with this APC. But this is the only mention of Iraqi BTR 70s I have found for now I'd prefer to find corroborating informations. Olaf is right, the Jane's listings of Iraqi equipment I have found on several websites do not mention them. May be I should rather buy some Zvezda T 72s for some future wrecks...

Thank to you both !
Frenchy

Zvezda T 72s ??????

Isn t there any better model company that brought out the T72 ?
I don t have a T-72 need some too as we both have the same project (OIF) But what about Italeris T-72 ? is that one from Dragon ? ISn t that oen form It and DRag, better?

There's alot of reviewers that have knocked both DML /Dragon and Tamiya T-72s as being "very inaccurate". I have both and they look enough like T-72s for me. Like the Tamiya fit better.

Hi Frenchy!
As I know they didn't have the BTR-70 in Iraqi -- only the BTR-60 and some chinese tracked APCs.

Not the best choice -- Zvezda's T-72 (formerly old Dragon's kit) represent T-72B model with significally thicker turret front armor. In Iraqi they have the earlier T-72M/M1 (export versions of T-72A model). So Tamiya's one (or one from Trumpeter to build as an destroyed vehicle ) will be much better.
Best regards
Lis

Guys,

Zvezda T-72 = Italeri T-72 = DML T-72

It's all the same DML kit, reboxed. Italeri has reboxed DML kits in Europe for at least a decade, and Zvezda has just started rereleasing modern DML kits, such as the BTRs and T-series.

Cheers

Olaf