Can any kommando tell me what the vehicles in this photo are?

Fuck i hate ADF media publications/ media

>>33209256
This is the Daily Telegraph Australia.

>>33209215
The ones behind him are GCT 155mm's so my money is on Iraq in that pic.

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>>33209215
The big muzzle brake in the forefront comes from a soviet PT76.

The automotives behind are french made AUF1, automotive 155mm 39 caliber artillery using the 155mm GCT (Grande Cadence de Tir, or "High Firing rate") canon. Sold to Iraq in the late 70's early 80's. Based on an AMX30 MBT chassis.

The iraqis used them in a very wrong way during desert storm, the strong point of these weapons, since they're automotives, being their manoeuverability and ability to relocate. The iraqis embossed them into sand and waited for strikes which came from everything the coalition could send out. A tactic which may have worked years before against Iran but did not against the whole western world.

A few dozen of these were salvaged back then and never went into service again due to a lack of spare parts after the embargo in 1991.

In 2003 some of these were discovered by coalition forces in an iraqi army depot.
None of these guns were combat ready anyway.

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>>33210196
other pics

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>>33210196
this is the scenery where the journal's picture was taken

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>>33210196

>>33210196
I don't disagree with you but I often see comments about "Iraq's missteps in the war".
They were pretty well fucked how ever it would have gone.

Once the air war was lost it was effectively over

>>33209300
Same diff

>>33210272
Oh that's for sure, but at least they could have tried to evade air reconnaissance by applying proper camouflage to their arty pieces before they had to move away. Do not forget there was a huge campaign of aerial reconnaissance before strikes happened. Satellites couldn't do everything, Iraq had quite a big army back then.

When combat effectively engaged, the iraqis, being equipped with weapons designed to fire then move to another position, simply used them as static artillery pieces and of course were utterly buttfucked.