Iraqi Armed ForcesThe Iraqi Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة العراقية romanized: Al-Quwwat Al-Musallahah Al-Iraqiyyah) (Kurdish: هێزە چەکدارەکانی عێراق) are the military forces of the Republic of Iraq. They consist of the Iraqi Army, the Iraqi Air Force, and the Iraqi Navy. Along with these three primary service branches, there exists the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service. The President of Iraq acts as the supreme commander as outlined by the constitution. The armed forces of Iraq have a long history but generally politicized and unsuccessful history.
Malyshev FactoryThe Malyshev Factory (Завод імені В.О. Малишева; abbreviated ЗІМ), formerly the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (Харьковский паровозостроительный завод, ХПЗ), is a state-owned manufacturer of heavy equipment in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was named after the Soviet politician Vyacheslav Malyshev. The factory is part of the state concern, Ukroboronprom. It produces diesel engines, farm machinery, coal mining, sugar refining, and wind farm equipment, but is best known for its production of Soviet tanks, including the BT tank series of fast tanks, the famous T-34 of the Second World War, the Cold War T-64 and T-80, and their modern Ukrainian successor, the T-84.
Samokhodnaya UstanovkaSamohodnaya Ustanovka (SU; самоходная установка, СУ, lit. "Self-propelled installation") may refer to any of these Soviet casemate self-propelled guns: SU-5-1, an SPG based on the T-26 tank. SU-8, experimental SPG on the chassis of the T-28 tank. SU-14, a prototype heavy self-propelled gun built on a T-35 chassis. SU-18, a self-propelled gun based on the T-18 tank. SU-26, a self-propelled gun of an open-top design over a T-26 light tank chassis. SU-57, the Soviet designation for lend-leased T48 Gun Motor Carriages.
Sloped armourSloped armour is armour that is oriented neither vertically nor horizontally. Such angled armour is typically mounted on tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), as well as naval vessels such as battleships and cruisers. Sloping an armour plate makes it more difficult to penetrate by anti-tank weapons, such as armour-piercing shells (kinetic energy penetrators) and rockets, if they follow a more or less horizontal trajectory to their target, as is often the case. The improved protection is caused by three main effects.
Armoured vehicle-launched bridgeAn armoured vehicle-launched bridge (AVLB) is a combat support vehicle, sometimes regarded as a subtype of military engineering vehicle, designed to assist militaries in rapidly deploying tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles across gap-type obstacles, such as rivers. The AVLB is usually a tracked vehicle converted from a tank chassis to carry a folding metal bridge instead of weapons.
