Iraq's 9th Armoured Division has conducted what was probably its first tactical exercise that combined M1 A1 Abrams main battle tanks with BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), according to the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD). "I think it's the first exercise for the command of the 9th Armoured Division where the BMP-1 tracked infantry fighting vehicle participated with the Ml Abrams tanks," Major General Walid Khalifa al-Tamimi, the division's commander, said in a video released by the MoD on 15 March.
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