Quote: JerryChicken "For a true global response all you need to ask is "Who are their weapons suppliers ?".
They have the money but they do not have the capability to manufacture accurate weapons and ammunition - Hamas make their own rockets but they are as accurate and predictable as a £2 bonfire night rocket and so would be the IS ones if they were making their own, so clearly they are purchasing munitions and as Kurdish sources are suggesting, they are purchasing very modern stuff, far more advanced than anything the Kurds have.
So who is supplying them and how is it getting shipped to them, questions where the answers will already be known by governments heavy with surveillance but light on the will to lean on their own weapons manufacturers or other countries with whom they have a "relationship".
Political will is all thats missing.'"
I believe the majority of their weapons are materiel captured from Syria and from when the Iraqi army abandoned their posts en masse, including a lot of US hardware.
A quick search tells me their haul includes SA-7 and Stinger surface-to-air missiles, M79 Osa, HJ-8 and AT-4 Spigot anti-tank weapons, Type 59 field guns and 52 M198 howitzers, 1,500 Humvees, T-54/55 and T-72 main battle tanks, M117 armoured cars, truck mounted DShK guns, ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns, BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 4,000 PKC machine guns and at least one Scud missile.
Meanwhile the Kurds have little beyond light weapons. One chap on the news last night looked like he was armed with frigging musket.
That said, I'm sure their are weapons manufacturers or traders who would have no problem selling to anyone wielding a huge wad of cash.