Durable and widely available, the AK-47 is a Russian 7.62mm assault rifle. The AK fires 100 rounds per minute even through extreme conditions such as low temperatures, from moving vehicles, and after being dunked in water, mud, or sand.

Ba'ath Party weapons caches and street sales from the defunct Iraqi Army indicate a high usage of Beretta 9mm pistols by Iraqis. Specifically designed and manufactured for the US military, these semiautomatics are the standard Army sidearm, and the Marine Corps has more than 80,000 in inventory.

A shoulder-fired, muzzle-loaded, grenade launcher, the RPG-7 fires a variety of grenades from a 40-mm launch tube. It’s light enough to be fired by one person, but an assistant usually stands to the left of the gunner for protection.

This is designed to be thrown about 40 meters and explode into fragments with a kill radius of 5 meters, and a casualty-producing radius of 15 meters.