This is a list of some of the military equipment formerly and currently used by the Islamic State (IS).

Small arms

Assault and battle rifles

Sniper rifles and anti-material rifles

Machine guns

Shotguns

Pistols

Explosives, anti-tank weapons, grenade launchers, and anti-aircraft launchers

Towed arms

Towed artillery

Vehicles

Logistics and utility vehicles

Tanks and armored fighting vehicles

Self-propelled artillery

Aircraft

Watercraft

ISIL has been using a mix of watercraft to transport fighters around the Tigris River and

Euphrates River The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers'') ...

and has been referred to as their unofficial riverine navy. US forces have come across small watercraft that can ply rivers to carry troops, equipment and in some cases act as floating IEDs. *

Barge Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels ...

s for transport. *

Skiff A skiff is any of a variety of essentially unrelated styles of small boats. Traditionally, these are coastal craft or river craft used for leisure, as a utility craft, and for fishing, and have a one-person or small crew. Sailing skiffs have devel ...

s. * Motorized vessels.

Weapons production

IS has an indigenous weapons industry. Their workshops can produce identical copies of the RPG-7 and SPG-9. In addition, they have developed an indigenous rocket launcher, which comes in four varieties. Two variants fire PG-9 munitions at short and long range. A third fires PG-7V munitions and the fourth fires an unspecified

thermobaric A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, a vacuum bomb or a fuel air explosive (FAE), is a type of explosive that uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion. The fuel–air explosive is one of the be ...

munition. They also produce grenades to be fired from the muzzle of an AK pattern rifle or dropped from a drone. They also produce mortar ammunition and rockets.

References

{{Reflist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant An Islamic state is a State (polity), state that has a form of government based on sharia, Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical Polity, polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a t ...