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Anti-aircraft 24 [41] TWQ-1 Avenger United States: Anti-aircraft 100 [41] MIM-23 Hawk United States: Anti-aircraft 50 XXI variant Bofors 40 mm Sweden: Anti-aircraft autocanon 100 [47] Recently refurbished and made operational
Iraqi Mirages. The Dassault Mirage Family in Service with the Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988. Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-912-390311. Cully, George W., "Adapt or fail : the USAF’s role in reconstituting the Iraqi Air Force 2004-2007" Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2016.
The air force also included the IAF Operational Air Headquarters in Baghdad with a major-general commanding and just over 100 staff in staff cells A1-A6, and A7 (Training), A8 (Finance) and A9 (Engineering); the two reconnaissance squadrons (3rd and 70th); 2nd and 4th Squadrons planned to receive Huey II helicopters; 12th Squadron with Bell ...
The 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron was part of the Iraq Training and Advisory Mission – Air Force. It operated Cessna and Beechcraft T-6A Texan II aircraft conducting flight training for members of the Iraqi Air Force. In late 2011, all U.S. forces were withdrawn from Iraq and the squadron was inactivated.
The Iraqi Army Aviation Command is the aviation branch of the Iraqi Ground Forces founded in 1980. It commands the helicopter class as well as the class of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is a completely separate force from the Iraqi Air Force, and is currently led by Major General Muhammad Abdul-Karim Aouni. [1] [2]
This led the British to form the Iraqi Army on 6 January 1921 (later to be marked as Iraqi Army Day), [9] followed by the Iraqi Air Force in 1927. The British recruited former Ottoman officers to man junior and middle ranks of the new Iraqi officer corps, with senior commands, as well as most training positions, being manned by British officers.
Towed anti-aircraft gun [25] Oerlikon GDF Switzerland: 35 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun Captured from Kuwait, used with the Skyguard fire control system. [39] 61-K Soviet Union China: 250 [25] 37 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun Chinese Type 55 also used. [40] AZP S-60 Soviet Union China: 500 [25] 57 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun Chinese Type 59 also used ...
The remains of Iraq's air force were destroyed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. After the invasion, the Air Force was rebuilt, receiving most of its training and aircraft from the United States. In 2007, Iraq asked Iran to return some of the scores of Iraqi fighter planes that flew there to escape destruction during the Gulf War in 1991. [51]