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| Iraq |
| Arms cache seized in Mosul |
| 2009-02-15 |
| Aswat al-Iraq: Forces from the Iraqi army's 6th Brigade on Saturday seized a weapons cache containing dozens of Grad, Strella, and Katyusha missiles in the city of Mosul on Saturday, the brigade commander said. "The force seized the large cache in the area of al-Islah al-Ziraie, western Mosul," Brig. Ismail Abdullah told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The cache, hidden underground, contained 54 RPG shells, 100 improvised explosive devices read for detonation, seven BKC rifles, 15 sniper rifles, 18 Kalashnikov assault rifles, 50 mortar shells, 10 Grad missiles, 10 guns with silencers, 10 boxes of ammunition, 26 Katyusha rockets, and two Strella missiles," Abdullah said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Must be a misspelling : here is the link for PK series light machine guns -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PK_machine_gun. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2009-02-15 22:56 |
| #6 Could be a PKC. That's a light machine gun. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-02-15 19:13 |
| #5 IIRC the BKCs were machine guns used by Saddam's army. I think somewhat like our SAWs but older and maybe heavier. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-02-15 19:07 |
| #4 Best I could come up with is it uses belt fed ammo, so some kind of belt fed machinegun. |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-02-15 18:54 |
| #3 what is a BKC rifle? |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-02-15 14:50 |
| #2 My, is it elk season already? |
| Posted by: Steve 2009-02-15 14:12 |
| #1 Strellas? Somebody going duck hunting maybe? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-02-15 12:09 |