We had speculated into the possibility of the Iraqi's use of equipment that they had capture during their earlier war with Iran. We now have proof that this was indeed a source for at least some of their material. At the same time we completely overlooked a scenario where the same might be true of radio sets captured during their invasion of Kuwait. It might be that a great deal of the communications equipment they used originated from these sources as we now have evidence to support both these scenarios. Numerous personal accounts from advancing Allied troops detail their overrunning bunkers containing hundreds of radios of various types.
Evidence now exist to support the latter assumption.
A screening can ripped open and then left by Iraqi Technician Board from a IRET PRC-439 Several things become apparent as we gather up and inspect this equipment. Iraqi's were woefully lacking in their technical expertise, preventative maintenance, or general maintenance of their equipment. With all the money this country had to spend on their equipment, that radio equipment which has been available for our inspection does not reflect a respect for communications ability or need. Equipment found is never of the latest design, or even of the same generation as that used by other nations military's. Instead it appears that the price tag was the determine factor in the acquisition of signals equipment for the Iraqi military.