new york: Iraqis have secretly bought as many as a thousand russian-made kornet anti-tank missiles which are lightweight, very powerful and easy-to-use, pentagon officials claimed.
The sellers are ukrainian arms dealers and possibly some entrepreneurial syrian generals or the syrian government itself, the officials were quoted as saying by newsweek. They reportedly sent baghdad some 500 kornets in january.
The kornet anti-tank missiles were used to attack two us tanks, both abrams m1a1s during the ongoing war in iraq. The first m1s ever destroyed by enemy fire in battle, they were caught in an ambush of the us army's 3/7 cavalry near as samawah, on the west bank of the euphrates river.
Two is not a large number and the invading forces have at least 650 tanks in iraq with more on the way. But us officials, the magazine said, are worried about the skill or "at least the fanaticism" of the guerrilla fighters who sneaked up on the tanks driving a "technical," a jeep, under cover of a sandstorm
