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Aircraft Image Origin Type Variant Quantity Notes Combat helicopter; Eurocopter EC725 France: Combat search & rescue 12 on order [50] Mil Mi-24 Russia: Attack Mi-35M: 23 [51] [19] 12 optional order [52] Mil Mi-28 Russia: Close air support/Anti-armor: Mi-28NE Mi-28UB 17 [53] [19] 19 optional order [52] T129 ATAK Turkey: Attack Helicopter: 12 ...
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 ...
As a result of the policies followed by the Iraqi state, most of the helicopters were Soviet. After 2003 the United States armed the Iraqi army aviation with American and Western helicopters. In October 2012, it was reported that Iraq had signed a contract with Russia to purchase weapons, including approximately 30 Mil Mi-28 helicopters. [3]
The new FA-50 light attack jet. Source: KAI. Don't look now, but Iraq is getting its air force back up and running -- and it has Lockheed Martin to thank for it. Iraq inked a deal to buy three ...
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 2nd Squadron, Iraqi Air Force was a helicopter squadron. It was first established in 1961 flying Mil Mi-4 [ 1 ] Rasheed Air Base . [ 2 ] It was still operating from Rasheed in 1964 with Mi-4s & Westland Wessexs .
When Saddam Hussein came to power in 1979, the air force grew quickly when Iraq ordered more Soviet and French aircraft. The air force's peak came after the long Iran–Iraq War, which ended in 1988, when it consisted of 1029 aircraft of all types (of which 550 were combat aircraft), becoming the largest air force in the region. [23]
Towed anti-aircraft gun Chinese Type 59 also used. [40] 52-K Soviet Union: 200 85 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun Used with the Fire Can radar. [25] KS-19 Soviet Union: 200 [25] 100 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun KS-30 Soviet Union: 200 [25] 130 mm Towed anti-aircraft gun ZSU-23-4 Soviet Union: 200+ [25] 23 mm Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun: M53/59 ...