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To: Thomas M. who wrote (16011)	10/23/2002 9:27:16 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

IRAQI air force equipment - Soviet, French, Chinese If you click on the link below, you can click on each item and get the background on the equipment. Helicopters aren't included below, but they were from France. Iraq's tanks were of Soviet origin. globalsecurity.org <<<< Iraqi Air Force Equipment SYSTEMS Inventory 1990 1995 2000 2002 2005 2010 Bomber 16 ~ 6 ~ 6 ~ 6 ~ 6 ~ 2 Tu-22 8 4 4 4 4 - Tu-16 4 - - - - - H-6D [PRC] 4 2 2 2 2 2 Fighter/Attack 390 216 116 96 91 46 J-6 [PRC MiG-19] 30 30 - - - - Mig-23 90 70 40 20 20 - Mirage F-1 EQ/BQ 94 55 45 45 40 15 Su-7 30 20 - - - - Su-20 / Su-22 70 45 15 15 15 15 Su-25 60 25 15 15 15 15 Su-24 25 1 1 1 1 1 Fighter 245 140 90 85 65 45 J-7 [PRC MiG-21] 40 35 35 35 35 35 MiG-21 150 75 40 40 20 - MiG-25 25 15 5 5 5 5 MiG-29 30 15 10 5 5 5 RECON ~12 ~5 ~5 ~5 ~5 ~5 MiG-21 5 - - - - - MiG-25 7 5 5 5 5 5 AEW Il-76 Adnan 2 - - - - - TANKER Il-76 1 2 2 2 2 2 TRANSPORT An-2 10 5 5 20 20 20 An-12 10 5 5 3 3 3 An-24 6 6 6 6 6 6 An-26 2 2 6 6 6 6 Il-76 19 4 4 4 4 4 TRAINING AS-202 35 20 20 20 20 20 EMB-312 80 70 60 50 50 50 L-29 50 20 - - - - L-39 50 50 50 50 50 ~50 MB-233 16 8 - - - - PC-7 50 25 25 25 25 25 PC-9 30 30 15 12 12 12 Yak-11 10 - - - - - MISSILES ASM AM-39 + + + + + + AS-4 + + + + + + AS-5 + + + + + + AS-9 - + + + + + AS-11 + + + + + + AS-12 + + + + + + AS-30L + + + + + + C-601 + + + + + + AAM AA-2/-6/-7/-8/-10 + + + + + + R-530 + + + + + + R-550 + + + + + + <<<

To: Thomas M. who wrote (16011)	10/23/2002 9:28:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 93284

German and Yugoslav missile and WMD equipment cns.miis.edu >>>>> "Bill of Indictment" Summary The 1992 "Bill of Indictment" was brought by the District Attorney’s office of the Augsberg (Germany) district court against defendants Anton Eyerle and Walter Dittel, both German nationals, and Subramanian Venkataramanan, an Indian citizen. They were charged with, among other crimes, illegally exporting fuzing systems and parts for Al-Hussein ballistic missiles and Styx anti-ship missiles from 1987-1990. Through firms they controlled, including Rhein-Bayern Fahrzeugbau GmbH and Rhein-Bayern Avionic-Dittel Gmbh, the three ultimately sent over DM29 million worth of illegal exports to Iraq (some $17 million at current exchange rates). The defendants were convicted in 1994, and will serve up to five and a half years in prison. Several aspects of the case are worthy of note: * Missiles: Over the course of their dealings with Iraq, the defendants traveled several times to Baghdad, and were provided with original parts for fuzing systems by Iraqi engineers and Iraqi military personnel. These parts were then used as the basis for reverse-engineering efforts that were subcontracted to dozens of firms throughout Germany and Europe. At the time of their arrest, the defendants appeared ready to embark on reverse-engineering of inertial guidance equipment for Iraq, including gyroscopes, accelerometers and potentiometers. This is in addition to prior exports of asbestos for warhead and airframe insulation, as well as graphite rods for use in missile nose cones and tail assembly components. * Chemical: According to court documents, in 1987 the Iraqis were seeking precursor chemicals for sarin nerve gas production; the documents make clear that Eyerle had intimate knowledge of these requests, though it is less clear if he or his colleagues were directly contacted by the Iraqis for this purpose. However, using a German supplier and German intermediary, in 1990 the defendants obtained six "floating bodies," four of which were exported to Iraq. These bodies are containers intended for use in 122mm rocket warheads carrying chemical agents. An injection molding machine and related equipment—for production of screws and connectors for the floating bodies—was also shipped. * Nuclear: In eight separate shipments, beginning in January 1990 and ending that May, the defendants exported to Iraq 240,000 ferrite cores and 10,000 ringband cores, components for hysterisis motors used in gas ultracentrifuges; centrifuges are used to enrich uranium . The cores were actually produced by German companies and then delivered by Eyerle and his colleagues to the Electrical Industries Establishment in Baghdad. According to one expert witness, the components were enough to produce 10,000 centrifuges. In addition, a complete stator was manufactured at the defendant’s facility and given to an Iraqi national in the spring of 1990 for later export to Iraq. Interestingly, Eyerle has been connected to the German engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab, who is charged with selling Iraq blueprints and key components for URENCO’s advanced TC-11 centrifuge. Schaab apparently stole the blueprints when he worked for URENCO affiliate MAN Technology. Both Schaab and Eyerle owned firms in Kaufbeuren, and Schaab has admitted publicly to "cooperating" with Eyerle; the court documents, however, do not make clear if the cores and stator were intended for the TC-11 centrifuge, although it seems likely. * Yugoslav connection: Several of the Styx and Al-Hussein fuzing parts delivered by Rhein-Bayern were either manufactured or assembled by Yugoslavian companies. The Yugoslavs were intimately connected with Iraq’s pre-war NBC and missile programs through the provision of technology, design expertise, and civil construction services. Moreover, post-sanction (after August 1990) shipments of fuzing components were made via Yugoslavia, and ultimately through a Yugoslav-owned company in Cyprus. <<<<<