Middle Eastern Coalition

The Middle Eastern Coalition (Arabic: تحالف الشرق الأوسط), commonly abbreviated to MEC, is a fictional military alliance of Middle Eastern states in the Battlefield universe. They have their standard armed forces, which appear in all maps concerning them in Battlefield 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company, and a special forces unit, which appear in all maps concerning the MEC in Battlefield 2: Special Forces. MEC weapons are largely based on advanced Russian military technologies. Most of the MEC campaigns are based around oil fields and desert combat.

Battlefield 2
In Battlefield 2, the MEC fight against the United States Marine Corps and the European Union alongside the People's Liberation Army. They are armed with a mixture of foreign equipment, most of which being of Russian origin.

Sub-units
The only mentioned unit within the Middle Eastern Coalition is the MEC Second Armored, which makes an appearance as the attacking force in Operation Harvest.

Engagements against the USA

 * Gulf of Oman
 * Kubra Dam
 * Mashtuur City
 * Operation Clean Sweep
 * Sharqi Peninsula
 * Strike at Karkand
 * Zatar Wetlands
 * Operation Road Rage
 * Operation Harvest
 * Road to Jalalabad
 * Highway Tampa

Engagements against the European Union

 * Operation Smoke Screen
 * Taraba Quarry

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
In Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, the MEC exclusively fights the United States in multiplayer maps.

Engagements against the United States
 * Backstab
 * Deadly Pass
 * Full Frontal
 * The Nest
 * The Black Gold

Context
In Battlefield: Bad Company's singleplayer, the MEC fight in a fictional war against the United States alongside the Russian Federation and Legionnaire Mercenaries. The game depicts the United States Army attacking the MEC controlled town of Sadiz in the Battle of Sadiz. They are also engaged against the 222nd Army Battalion during Operation Ghost Town.

In multiplayer, they are engaged against the 222nd Army Battalion.

Engagements against the US Army

 * Ghost Town
 * Oasis
 * Final Ignition
 * Ghost Town
 * Battle of Sadiz

Equipment
The MEC mostly uses export Russian-made weapons and vehicles with some Russian prototype vehicles. Only a few of their weapons are of European, American, and Chinese origin.

Assault Rifles

 * STG.77 AUG
 * AK-101
 * AK-47

Carbines

 * AKS-74U
 * 9A-91 Avtomat

Shotguns

 * T194 Shotgun
 * S12K
 * Mossberg 500

Sniper Rifles

 * GOL Sniper Magnum
 * SVD Dragunov

Submachine Guns

 * PP-19

Light Machineguns

 * RPK-74
 * PKM
 * QJY-88

Rocket/Grenade Launchers

 * RPG-7
 * ERYX
 * M2 Carl Gustav Recoilless Anti-Armor Rifle
 * GP-30
 * GP-25
 * M203

Pistols

 * MP412 REX
 * MR-444
 * Tariq Pistol

Light vehicles

 * GAZ-3937
 * Cobra 4WD
 * FAV

Armored vehicles

 * T-90
 * BTR-90
 * 2K22 Tunguska
 * Black Eagle
 * 2T Stalker
 * 2S25 Sprut

Helicopters

 * Mi-28 Havoc
 * Mi-17 Hip
 * Mi-24 Hind
 * Eurocopter EC635
 * Ka-52

Emplacements

 * ZSU-23-2
 * KORD
 * 9M133 Kornet

Fixed-Wing Aircraft

 * MiG-29
 * Su-34
 * Su-25

Naval Vessels

 * RIB
 * Patrol Boat Light

Trivia

 * The MEC are mainly using export Russian and German equipment, this is common with many Middle Eastern armies today.
 * In Battlefield: Bad Company, the MEC vehicle HUD color is yellow.
 * The MEC uses a fictional flag in Battlefield 2, uses a different flag in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, and uses the flag of Ba'athist Iraq and Syria (before Syria's split with Iraq) in Battlefield: Bad Company.
 * However, when a MEC soldier dies or switches kits in Battlefield: Bad Company, the flag patch sewn onto their kit is that of the Battlefield 2 MEC flag and not the Ba'athist Iraqi flag. This was most likely an oversight on DICE's part.
 * It should also be worth mentioning that the MEC flag from Modern Combat can be found on the left arm of all seven MEC soldier models in Battlefield 2, albeit with a white background and black foreground in the latter.
 * The MEC flag in Modern Combat has two variants:
 * One with a bright green background and yellow foreground, as seen in the spawn menu, in-game on the right hand side of the screen to show reinforcement tickets, and as part of a ticker when a Conquest flag is being captured by the MEC.
 * One with a beige-golden background and a green foreground, as seen on IGN; this is the exact flag model seen in-game once the MEC has captured a position in Conquest.
 * Within the texture file of the MEC pilot, there exists what seems to be another early design for the MEC flag.
 * The presence of six stars on this flag alludes to the possibilities of six founding members of the Middle Eastern Coalition, or a total of only six member states.
 * Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Battlefield Play4Free, Battlefield 3, and Battlefield 4 are the only modern-era Battlefield games in which the MEC does not appear.
 * Arabic is the official language of the MEC, despite the fact that several Middle Eastern nations speak a multitude of different languages, such as Kurdish, Persian, Turkish and others.
 * The MEC is never referred to in the naming scheme of the weapon files, with all of their weapons being named with "RU" or "RUS", indicating Russia.
 * The MEC battle dialogue is reused for Insurgent Forces and the MEC-SF.
 * In the early stages of Battlefield 2, the MEC originally looked very different from their current appearance, resembling insurgents rather than a professional military force with a completely different flag. Also, their voices were completely different, it can be seen in this video.
 * In Battlefield: Bad Company, the MEC never appears as attackers in Gold Rush.
 * In Battlefield 2, all MEC soldiers have a patch written in Arabic denoting them as being a Private (خاصة), though خاصة means "private" in the sense of privacy, rather than military rank.

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