Military equipment of ISIL
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This is a list of some of the military equipment used by the terrorist organisation known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Infantry weapons
Assault and battle rifles
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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AK-47 | Selective fire Assault Rifle | unknown[1][unreliable source?] | Soviet Union | Most commonly used |
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M16 rifle | Assault Rifle | unknown[1][unreliable source?] | United States | Captured from Iraqi Army & Police. [2] |
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M4A1 (Limited)[3] |
Carbine Rifle | United States | Captured from Iraqi Army & Police | ||
Norinco CQ[4] | Assault Rifle | People's Republic of China | |||
FN FAL[4] | Battle rifle | Belgium | |||
Heckler and Koch G3[4] | Battle rifle | West Germany |
Sniper rifles
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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Dragunov SVD | Designated marksman rifle | 3000+[1][unreliable source?] | Soviet Union | ||
PSL/FPK[5] | Designated marksman rifle | Socialist Republic of Romania | |||
M14 EBR (Limited) | Designated marksman rifle | United States | Captured from Iraqi Army [6](8:40 mins) [7] | ||
Mosin–Nagant | Sniper rifle | Soviet Union | Equipped with PU, PE, and modified PSO-1 scopes [8][9] | ||
M99 | Anti-materiel rifle | [1][unreliable source?] | People's Republic of China |
Machine guns
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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RPD | Light machine gun | [1][unreliable source?] | Soviet Union | ||
RPK | Light machine gun | [1][unreliable source?] | Soviet Union | ||
PKM | Squad automatic weapon | [1][unreliable source?] | Soviet Union | Most common belt-fed machine gun used |
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M249 light machine gun[10] | Squad automatic weapon | United States | 230px | Captured from Iraqi Army & Police | |
Rheinmetall MG3 | general-purpose machine gun | [11] | Germany | ||
NSV machine gun | Heavy machine gun | [1][unreliable source?] | Soviet Union | ||
DShK | Heavy machine gun | [1][unreliable source?] | Soviet Union |
Pistols
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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Browning Hi-Power[2] | Semi-automatic pistol | Belgium | 170px | ||
Glock 17[12] | Semi-automatic pistol | Austria | |||
Walther P99[13] | Semi-automatic pistol | Germany |
Explosives, anti-tank weapons, and anti-aircraft launchers
Towed arms
Towed artillery
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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M198 Howitzer | Towed howitzer | Up to 52[21] | United States | 230px | Captured from Iraqi Army |
ZU-23-2[22] | Towed Anti-Aircraft Twin Autocannon | 83[17][19] | Soviet Union | Usually mounted on technicals.[17] | |
AZP S-60[18] | Anti-Aircraft Gun | 21[17][19] | Soviet Union | ||
Type 59-1[22] | Field gun | 34[17] | Soviet Union | ||
122-mm howitzer D-30[22] | Field gun | 2[19] | Soviet Union | ||
85 mm divisional gun D-44[17] | Field gun | 1[17] | Soviet Union | ||
122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30)[17] | Howitzer | 2[17] | Soviet Union | 230px | |
D-74 122 mm field gun[17] | Field gun | 6[19] | Soviet Union |
Vehicles
Logistics and utility vehicles
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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HMMWV | Light Utility Vehicle | 2300+[23][24][25][26][27] | United States | Many captured from Iraqi Army |
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Technicals | improvised fighting vehicles | varies from hundreds to thousands | 23x15px ISIL | ||
UAZ-469 | off-road military light utility vehicle | 8[17][19] | Soviet Union | Captured in Iraq. |
Tanks and armored fighting vehicles
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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BMP-1 | Armored personnel carrier | 25[17] | Soviet Union | Captured from the armies of Iraq and Syria | |
MT-LB[28] |
Armored personnel carrier | ~unknown[19] | Soviet Union | ||
BRDM-2[17] | Amphibious armored personnel carrier | 6[17] | Soviet Union | 230px | |
MRAP | Armored personnel carrier | 13[22] | United States | Captured from the Iraqi Army and Police | |
M1117 Armored Security Vehicle | Armored personnel carrier | 17[19] | United States | Captured from the Iraqi Army and Police | |
M113 APC | Armored personnel carrier | ~52[19] | United States | Captured from the Iraqi Army[29] | |
T-55/55MV/AM/AMV | Main battle tank | At least 83[17][30][19] | Soviet Union | Captured from the Iraqi Army and Libyan militias |
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T-72/72M/A/AV /TURMS-T/M1 TURMS-T | Main battle tank | 22[17][19] | Soviet Union | ||
M1A1M Abrams | Main battle tank | 1-2 (see Operators)[29] | United States | Captured from the Iraqi Army[29] |
Artillery
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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2S1 Gvozdika | Self-propelled artillery | 3 or 4[22][17] | Soviet Union | Captured from the Syrian army | |
ZSU-23-4 Shilka[18] | Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun | 3[17] | Soviet Union | Captured from Syrian army | |
BM-21 Grad[22] | Multiple Rocket Launcher | 11[17] | Soviet Union |
Aircraft
Name | Type | Quantity | Origin | Photo | Notes |
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MiG-21M/MF/bis/UM/FL | Fighter Aircraft | 19 (1 operational)[31][32][17][19] | Soviet Union | Originally 3 in operational condition. The Syrian Air Force claimed to have shot down two of them.[33] Other airframes are in various states of disrepair and some of them were being overhauled at the time of their capture. | |
L-39ZA | Trainer/ground-attack aircraft | 3[17][34] | Czechoslovakia | Originally 4. Captured by Jaysh al-Islam at the Kshesh airfield in February 2013. One was subsequently destroyed during a SAAF bombing.[35] Two were repaired to airworthiness and shown taxiing during a propaganda video released by Jaysh al-Islam.[36] Unknown fate after the airfield's capture by ISIL.[35] | |
Mohajer 4 Drone and others | Drone (UAV) | 6+[37][38][39][40][41] | Iran | Some were captured from the Syrian Army and Iran. ISIL demonstrated the use of a reconnaissance drone in "Clanking of the Swords IV" (June 2014) and in October 2014 over Kobanî in the John Cantlie video and also in the Tabqah Air Base video. The three Drones in Syria were shot down over Kobanî by Kurdish forces defending the city,[42][43] and by the Syrian Army over an airbase.[41] |
References
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