Germany had a secret arms deal with the Kurdish Peshmerga. War is Boring

A Milan anti-tank author. War is Boring/Till Rimmele

Germany has secretly, and without approval of their Parliament, given hundreds of rifles, machine guns and anti-tank weapons to the Iraqi Kurds. -War is Boring. The weapons include 8000 G36 rifles and 200 Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank weapons. In addition they are giving the Peshmerga 30 Milan anti-tank launcher systems, which are highly sophisticated and effective against enemy armor. Trainers traveled to Iraq to train the Kurds on the weapons. The arms deal is politically controversial because Germany has a policy against selling weapons to states involved in war. Germany got around this restriction by simply giving the arms to the Kurds. 

My Comment:

Yet another excellent report by War is Boring. They are a great website and I highly recommend reading them. They tend to cover issues that the mainstream media ignores and they do it with amazing pictures and great style. 

As for the article itself, it isn't too surprising that Germany is doing this. They have a huge motivation to fight ISIS and help the Kurds. All of Europe is under threat from ISIS so giving the Kurds some surplus arms is a good idea. The question is if the German people will accept it. I have to admit, I don't know enough about the domestic politics of Germany to know for sure if the public will go along with these sales. If I was in their position I would be in favor of these sales but I'd be upset that they were secret about it. Of course it isn't like my country hasn't done clandestine arms sales...

For the Kurds this will be a huge boon. Prior to this they did not really have any way to deal with heavy tanks that ISIS has captured. ISIS may still have some M1 Abrams tanks and they shrug off RPG's like they are nothing. I'm assuming that the Milan missiles could do more damage.

And just for fun here is a video of a Milan being fired.