The Moroccan Army has a total strength of 175,000 people, including NATO equipment, Russian equipment and continental equipment, all types of equipment, main battle tanks, armored transport vehicles, rocket artillery, self-propelled guns, howitzers and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are all possessed, powerful and well-trained, the film Red Sea Operation has received the help of the Moroccan Army's armored forces.
Main battle tanks
222 M1A1SA Abrams main battle tanks, American equipment, using AGT-1500 engines, SA said to add position perception, added a new self-diagnosis system and a new sighting system, enhance the battlefield situational awareness during street battles, which is the experience of the Iraq War and multiple security wars.
The total weight of the battle is 62 tons, the main armament is 1 120mm smoothbore tank gun, 1 M-240 7.62mm coaxial machine gun, 1 M-2 12.7mm machine gun for vehicle length, 1 M-240 7.62mm loading hand machine gun, which can penetrate 600 mm homogeneous steel armor within 2000 meters when firing armor-piercing shells, the ammunition base is 40 rounds, the composite armor technology is used on the front of the hull and the turret in terms of protection, and the depleted uranium alloy armor on the armor surface has an anti-penetration ability of more than 500 mm.
150 MBT-2000 main battle tanks are ordered, jointly developed by China and Pakistan, a bit like the third generation tanks of Western countries, the tank gun has a thermal sheath and a gun chamber smoking device, the use of automatic loaders to load to save the position of the loader, with advanced sighting fire control system with all-weather combat capabilities.
The total weight of the battle is 48 tons, the main weapon is a 125mm smoothbore gun, which can fire grenades, armor-piercing shells, armor-breaking shells and artillery-fired missiles, can penetrate homogeneous steel armor with a depth of about 600mm at 2000 meters, a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun, a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and the protection also adopts composite armor protection, with a penetration resistance of more than 450 mm, and is equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing and explosion suppression system.
The 150 VT-1A main battle tanks were delivered, which were upgraded from the previous Khalid main battle tanks, with a total combat weight of 49 tons, the main firepower was a 125 mm smoothbore gun, a 7.62 side machine gun, a 12.7 anti-aircraft machine gun, equipped with a water-cooled supercharged diesel engine with a power of 1200 hp, and a maximum road speed of 75 km/h.
This type of equipment is equipped with advanced sighting system, hunter-fighter fire control technology, ballistic computer, advanced composite armor, Morocco purchased this type of main battle tank mainly to cope with the T-90 main battle tank purchased by neighboring countries, with three defense equipment and manual automatic fire extinguishing system, can be added according to the user's requirements additional electronic equipment.
148 T-72B main battle tanks, Russian equipment, combat weight of 46 tons, the tank's turret and hull covered with "contact" -1 reactive armor, the use of composite armor, the main weapon is a 125 mm smoothbore gun, can fire 9K120 reed flute "Svir" laser-guided anti-tank missiles, but there is no thermal imager, and does not have all-weather combat capabilities.
427 M60A3 main battle tanks, American Cold War equipment, total combat weight of 52 tons, after modernization and improvement can reach the standard of three generations of tanks, with thermal imager, the main weapon is a 105mm M68 rifled tank gun with a thermal sheath, a 7.62mm M240 side-by-side machine gun, a 12.7mm M85 anti-aircraft machine gun.
Armored combat vehicles
110 AMX-10RC wheeled reconnaissance vehicles, developed by France, combat weight 14.8 tons, fully welded aluminum structure, with a certain degree of amphibious capability, the main weapon is a 105mm caliber semi-automatic gun, can fire armor-breaking shells, grenades, tail stabilized shell piercing shells.
320 VBA 6X6 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, french weapons, built of aluminum alloy armor, can withstand 7.62mm bullets and shell fragments, the main weapons are a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and a 7.62 mm machine gun, the total combat weight is 14.2 tons, can carry 10 soldiers.
1200 M113A1/A2/A3 armored transport vehicles, American equipment, combat weight A1 type 11.1 tons, A2 type 11.3 tons, A3 type 12.2 tons, Browning M2 heavy machine gun outside and two plus 7.62mm M60 general purpose machine gun, the hull is made of machine aluminum armor plate, can resist small caliber and fragmentation kills.
Medium- and short-range rocket launchers
36 AR2 long-range rockets, mainland foreign trade products, using 8X8 high-mobility off-road truck chassis, can be quickly maneuvered along the road, mainly launching two kinds of rockets: The Fire Dragon 140 type 300 mm guided rocket has a range of about 130 kilometers, and the Fire Dragon 70E type 300 mm guided rocket is used for ground penetration, and does not have the ability to launch short-range ground-to-ground missiles.
Artillery of all shapes
27 M-109A5 155 mm self-propelled howitzers, Old American equipment, the range can reach 30 kilometers, the total combat weight increased to 32 tons, the use of semi-automatic loading system, the number of members reduced to 4 people, mainly to perform ground strike tasks, to help infantry to kill and attack enemy infantry.
Air defense systems
4 sets of FD-2000B long-range air defense missile system, the mainland equipped with foreign trade products, the use of domestic TA5380 8x8 chassis, missiles to ordinary air targets maximum range of about 125 km, maximum flight speed of Mach 4, can intercept cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, using a search fire control integrated HT-233 type three-coordinate phased array radar, the maximum detection distance to air targets is 300 km, 1 FD2000 type anti-aircraft missile unit by 1 control vehicle, 1 fire control radar vehicle, Consists of 8 4-piece missile launchers.
4 sets of Tianlong-50 medium-range air defense missile system, north industrial foreign trade products, loaded with DK-10 active radar guided missiles, the maximum attack range of 50 km, an IBIS-150 type search and fire control radar, the maximum tracking distance of 100 km, detecting and tracking 12 different types of targets, attacking four of them, a set of systems consisting of 1 command vehicle, 1 multi-function radar vehicle, 4 missile launchers, a set of logistics support systems.
In addition to this type of more advanced weapons and equipment, Morocco also has a large number of second-generation main battle tanks, which are enough for rebels in the African region, and Morocco also has a large number of mortars, towed howitzers, anti-aircraft machine guns, vehicle-mounted anti-tank missile launchers, recoilless guns.
A large number of advanced weapons and equipment, a large number of armored transport vehicles (more than 2,000) made the Moroccan army almost completely mechanized, and in some areas there are still camel troops like our cavalry companies, these preconditions, coupled with good militarized training and rich resources and sea positions, give this small North African country called Morocco a lot of voice in the region.
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