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Pentagon has approached Congress to agree to supply Iraq with air control systems of 700 million dollars

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Announced the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon), on Wednesday, from talk to her Congress to consider the possibility of equipping Iraq to systems of control of the rules of the air with spare parts and equipment associated with them, and logistical support and training, while showed that the cost of the deal of more than 700 million dollars, promised that they would contribute " improve the security situation for strategic ally "and a" direct attribution "of the Iraqi government, and its efforts to rebuild and develop navigation systems in air bases.

The agency said the defense cooperation the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in a statement, and I have read it (the long-Presse), it was "notified Congress on Tuesday, (the fourth of February 2014 present), on the possibility of equipping Iraq, through the sale of external systems of control on the path of aircraft and landing, especially air bases, with spare parts and equipment associated with them as well as logistical support and training at a cost estimated at 700 million dollars. "

The agency added, "The Iraqi government made an offer to buy the systems control the movement of aircraft ATC with equipment associated with air navigation and landing of aircraft, to be focused on four air bases, is Tikrit, Basra and Kut, coronary," indicating that "the deal include a system to control navigation air on four radars to scan the air, installed at the base, from model ASR-11, with ten systems control the movement of aircraft ATC, and ten boards control, and four systems assign to track air traffic aircraft, as well as radar search head, and radar scanning secondary. "

She Defensive Cooperation Agency of America, that "the equipment chock other system control key, to include a system scan high frequency omni-directional VORTAC, number Mnzawmte control on landing, equipped with three equipment to measure the distance, with Mnzawmte lighting air, and the lighting equipment is included, and the other to control air installed in the airport tower, "pointing out that" the deal also includes the cost of the monument, screening, training and equipping the base facilities required equipment with parts and equipment attribution and technical documentation and releases. "

Promised the agency in a statement, that "the deal will contribute to the improvement of the security situation of the strategic ally of the United States, constitute the process of assigning directly to the Iraqi government, and also contribute to the efforts to rebuild and develop navigation systems in the air bases of Iraq, and to develop and facilitate the process of air traffic for the various aircraft are sophisticated and secure ".

It is noteworthy that the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, known as (DSCA), is a division of U.S. Department of Defense, and the availability of financial and technical assistance and the transfer of military equipment, training and other services to U.S. allies, and enhance communication with their armies.

The newspaper industries, the U.S. military's Defence Industrie (Deffese Industry Daily), revealed in (the sixth of August 2013 the past), Iraq sought to develop the system of defense of the air at a cost of close to two billion and a half dollars, while confirmed that the system "is characterized by adopting a system of radars tactical ability objection missile threats, "promised that the completed forms the" backbone of the future structure of the Iraqi air defense system. "

The U.S. Department of Defense revealed, in (the 26 of July 2013), all addressable Congress to approve the plans to sell the Iraqi government equipment and spare parts various military worth up to one billion and ninety-five million dollars, and showed that the equipment, including helicopters and wheels poll nuclear and biological and wheels Humvee, and it comes under the title of "contributing to the U.S. to help its partners and friends to improve the security of their strategy."

The senior U.S. military official level confirmed, in (the 18 of July 2013), that Iraq has provided 479 request for military equipment to the tune of about $ 15 billion, while the value of transactions US-funded Iraq up to 850 million dollars, he said that approval "is not" after the integrated air defense system sought by Iraq to the need for "a series of approvals" by the U.S. State Department.

Iraq had signed an agreement with Washington to buy 36 fighter aircraft F-16, has announced that the Iraqi government (September 2011), the payment of the first installment of the purchase price to buy 18 fighter of this kind, as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense, in the (third from last July 2012), on the desire of the Iraqi government to increase the number of these aircraft in the "near future" to protect the atmosphere of the country.

The United States is the main source of arming the Iraqi armed forces, despite the quest to get Russian weapons and other countries of Eastern and other Uriah between now and then.

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