IRAQ - Fight on Islamic State: News #2

a video report on a daesh tunnel boring machine..


its been used to drill tunnels as long as 10km.

just having a bit of fun.

a PMU dude taking a selfie with an incoming VBIED.

Not seen this map maker before but if correct they are pretty good

le_carabinier ‏@LCarabinier 13h13 hours ago

Map: #Mosul, #Nineveh, military situation, 8 November. Full resolution: https://imagopyrenaei.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/mosul-8n.png …
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JohninMK wrote:Not seen this map maker before but if correct they are pretty good

le_carabinier ‏@LCarabinier 13h13 hours ago

Map: #Mosul, #Nineveh, military situation, 8 November. Full resolution: https://imagopyrenaei.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/mosul-8n.png …
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they are correct, clearly underlining that the effort to take Mosul is done in coordination with Syrian Gov. Mosul will be the last blow against ISIS under this guise.

I think ISIS will start fading and being far more underwhelming than it ever was, but still will be a threat.

Beyond comment

Elijah J. Magnier ‏@EjmAlrai 3h3 hours ago

#Iraq: Introduced in #MosulOffensive by Fed Pol.

KoTeMoRe wrote:

JohninMK wrote:Not seen this map maker before but if correct they are pretty good

le_carabinier ‏@LCarabinier 13h13 hours ago

Map: #Mosul, #Nineveh, military situation, 8 November. Full resolution: https://imagopyrenaei.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/mosul-8n.png …
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they are correct, clearly underlining that the effort to take Mosul is done in coordination with Syrian Gov. Mosul will be the last blow against ISIS under this guise.

I think ISIS will start fading and being far more underwhelming than it ever was, but still will be a threat.

Thanks for posting!

Insane SVBIEDs
just scroll down
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/798242756967669760

And this one...
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/798247312791310337

RIp the guys in the BMP. It seem they managed to shoot off one round from the 73mm but it was too late... the daesh VBIED was too close.

Don't understand what happened with the tank though... anyway it seems urban combat they should always have good UAV coverage to spot VBIEDs from a long distance beyond the line of sight of troopers.

Meanwhile. The southern front the National Police is now 3km from Mosul Airport and in the western front the PMU is nearing Tel Afar Airbase after clearing out the dozens of villages they've over run in the past 2 weeks.

In the eastern front, the army and Specfor are nearing the centre of Mosul and the fight gets more desperate by the daeshis every day.

JohninMK wrote:Beyond comment

Elijah J. Magnier ‏@EjmAlrai 3h3 hours ago

#Iraq: Introduced in #MosulOffensive by Fed Pol.

There was project in Yugoslavia, based on M-84 chasis, which had mechanical hand couple m tall with optronics and ATGMs on top. It was supposed to be tank-destroyer.

The strike NW is forming an interesting shape.

Hassan Ridha Retweeted
Islamic World News ‏@A7_Mirza 21m21 minutes ago

#Mosul Operation
#TalAfar airport liberated by #PMU #Iraq-i forces
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@HKarimi1991 #MosulOp #موصل

Russian TV with Iraqi Army Aviation flying out of qayara ab

now the PMU are in Tel Afar... lets see if the turks are up for it.

sheytanelkebir wrote:now the PMU are in Tel Afar... lets see if the turks are up for it.

They may be "in TelAfar" but it is only the airfield by the look of it. It seems that the PMU are carefully avoiding all the towns, concentrating on cutting all the road links to end ISIS supplies.

The Iraqis are not totally stupid, the last thing they will want to do is to threaten the populations that the Turks believe they have a right to protect thereby giving the Turks a reason to invade in force, something the Iraqis are unlikely to be able to stop.

This is the Shia Crescent they are creating, next stop Deir and Palmyra cutting off ISIS from Jordan as well as Iraq

actually tel afar is predominantly SHIA Turkmen that the Turks seem blissfully unaware of... Today tel afar is therefore mostly deserted since the Shias were all either massacred or managed to escape when Daesh (at that time with the tacit support of Barzani's KDP forces) invaded it.

Many of the PMU fighters going to Tel Afar are unsurprisingly... Shia Turkmen from Tel Afar!




here's a tank that was hit by a Daesh anti tank missile earlier last week.

a little background about tel afar

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-mosul-offensive-latest-tal-afar-killers-iraq-sectarian-violence-a7419536.html

sheytanelkebir wrote:actually tel afar is predominantly SHIA Turkmen that the Turks seem blissfully unaware of... Today tel afar is therefore mostly deserted since the Shias were all either massacred or managed to escape when Daesh (at that time with the tacit support of Barzani's KDP forces) invaded it.

Many of the PMU fighters going to Tel Afar are unsurprisingly... Shia Turkmen from Tel Afar!




here's a tank that was hit by a Daesh anti tank missile earlier last week.

Did they really aimed at the turret ring? Also that Gun looks chipped, thermal sleeve looks nailed, I suppose they had a look at at and it still runs the rounds, for the sake of your guys.

well at muaskar al muthanna they are rebuilding all the damaged ones... some have been battered with multiple atgm and rpg hits and still rebuilt. but at what cost is the question... since the iraqis have only 146 hulls to play with, they do try to make sure that all are removed and rebuilt.

meanwhile loads of BMP-1 and T72s are arriving from various sources to fill out the real massive gap in armour and fire support. I'd guess that rebuilding an abrams costs more than 5-6 old T72s.

sheytanelkebir wrote:well at muaskar al muthanna they are rebuilding all the damaged ones... some have been battered with multiple atgm and rpg hits and still rebuilt. but at what cost is the question... since the iraqis have only 146 hulls to play with, they do try to make sure that all are removed and rebuilt.

meanwhile loads of BMP-1 and T72s are arriving from various sources to fill out the real massive gap in armour and fire support. I'd guess that rebuilding an abrams costs more than 5-6 old T72s.

Thank god, these guys are getting less and less opportunities to play the attrition game.

and here's that famous SVBIED ramming into an abrams...








we can see that the gun barrel and front hull are completely charred... but the turret has managed to turn afterwards at least.

sheytanelkebir wrote:and here's that famous SVBIED ramming into an abrams...








we can see that the gun barrel and front hull are completely charred... but the turret has managed to turn afterwards at least.

Nice. Abrams is a beast.
Not sure about the crew's SA.. or maybe there's good reason they did not react in a timely fashion.

Another map on progress.