Kurdish forces could receive weapons trove 

A shipment of Soviet-era weapons seized by the Italian navy in 1994 could be sent to ill-equipped Kurdish Peshmerga fighting Islamic State militants

Mar 1994: Cargo ship carrying 133 containers of contraband weapons from Ukraine to Serb fighters detained off Italy

Kalashnikov AKM-S with underfolding-stock

Anti-tank wire-guided missiles 400

9M111M Faktoria (NATO designation AT-4 Spigot)

High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) shaped charge warhead can penetrate U.S. armour captured by Islamic State militants

RPG-7 rocket-propelled anti-tank grenades 11,000

Assault rifles 30,000

Kalashnikov AK-47 fires 7.62mm round, muzzle velocity of 715m/s, 32 million rounds of small arms

Magazine: 30 rounds Ð can hit man-sized target at 300m

Ammunition: 7.62mm rounds

Missile length: 1,030mm
Effective range: 2,000m

Shoulder-launched missile effective at ranges up to 80m. Weapon of choice for urban fighting

Sources: Global Security, IHS Jane's, Corriere della Sera, Analisi Difesa

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