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==Mechanized Infantry Company==

===In Team Yankee===
[[File:N56.jpg|300px|thumb|right|I surrender! Here, take me!!]]
[[File:Iraqi Mechanized Company BMP-1.png|300px|left|thumb|Run Away!]]
[[File:Iraqi Mechanized Heavy Weapons BTR-60.png|300px|left|thumb|Hadji Weapons]]
The mechanized company is the main objective holder of the Iraqi Army, and also one of the only units that can fight tanks.

Like other WARPAC infantry companies, the Iraqis have cheap, spammable infantry with the numbers to beat down Western forces with sheer weight of fire: both from the riflemen and the vehicles they ride. 

The Iraqis do not have access to BMP-2, but make up for it with a somewhat respectable profile. While your conscripts have the training of Soviet peasants, they have 4+ courage, morale and rally and should be played like a mix of East Germans and Soviets. Thanks to their Western equipment, some units have access to Milan missiles, giving you the option to turn your Iraqis into quasi-British units with spammed Milans. 

Like the Frenchies, these Milans are one of the only weapons capable of beating 3rd generation tanks and should be positioned to deny areas to enemy tanks, if not outright engaging them. These troops should be aggressively pushed to deny pieces of terrain to your enemy. They might not have the numbers of Czechs, but are extremely close and come with better morale.

In the Iraqi arsenal, the AMX-10P could be seen as a BTR with more armour, a (barely) heavier weapon and better off-road performance. Your BTRs have traditionally been the suicidal first wave in an assault, and your AMX-10Ps should take the same role: except they have a chance to brush off autocannon fire from enemy IFVs and won't vapourize under artillery.

A BTR-60/OT-64 motorized company comes in at 4 points for 7 AK teams, 1 RPG team and 4 vehicles; 13 AKs, 2 RPGs, 2 PKMs and 9 vehicles for 7 points or 19 AKs, 3 RPGs, 2 PKMs and 12 vehicles for 10 points. Each company may take a team of SA-7s for 1 point, AT-3 Saggers for 1 point, or 1 Milan team for 2 points. All of these units come with a vehicle of their parent company.

The BTR-60/OT-64 company can upgrade its vehicles to AMX-10Ps for only 3 points, and can mount Milans if desired: but not Sagger missiles.

A BMP-1 mechanized company comes in at 5 points for 4 AKs, 3 RPGs and 4 BMPs, 7 AKs, 6 RPGs, 2 PKMs and 9 BMPs for 10 points, or 10 AKs, 9 RPGs, 2 PKMs and 12 BMPs for 14 points. Each company can add on a team of SA-7s with a BMP for 1 point.

===IRL===

[[File:150303-calbraith-iraq-army-tease fescam.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Modern hajis, because equipping folks with questionable loyalty is a great idea.]]

By 1985, the Iraq Mechanized Infantry Company, with it's soviet level of training, either represents an Iraqi force at the start of the conflict, or more likely the Republican Guard units being trained in Western Iraq for the eventual counterattack in 1987. The only truly mechanized units left in the Iraqi army were the Republican Guard forces, mostly because as losses mounted and replacements were not easily available, things broke down and were never recovered. Purchases were starting as funding from the Gulf States allowed the Iraqis to make foreign arms purchases once again, but in general the Iraqi army of this period was by no means a mechanized force in reality. 

The conscript based Iraqi army was struggling to do anything at all really, and the stalemate was being held to by both sides at this point in the war. The Iraqis had spent their best troops in a meat grinder in 1980 and 1981 trying to seize and siege several Iranian cities, and lost way more than they gained. The Iraqi forces were only really effective fighting in the defense, from static positions - maneuver was practically unknown. Executions for minor infractions were common, and about 80% of the army was Shia, and not enthusiastic about being there, but had to fight or be killed either by their officers or the Iranians. Really, Battlefront, a better model for the base line Iraqi's would be to have morale issues even worse than the Czechs.

Historically speaking, the major issues with the Iraqi army wouldn't be solved without major outside assistance and the Iranians pissing everyone off enough that they couldn't buy new equipment. Iraq would be rocked hard in '86, and end up having to resort to absolutely insane amounts of chemical weapon use in '87 and '88 to force the Iranians back and out of Iraqi territory - which for most of the war had been under Iranian control. By this point the Iraqi conscript army was a more professional force probably better deserving the statline assigned to them here, as training and equipment improved over time. This army though had also ballooned in size and expense to the fourth largest in the world, something that would be partially responsible for the 1991 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. 

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