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National Training Center (1 January 1991). The Iraqi Army: Organization and Tactics. Paladin Press. ISBN 978-0-87364-632-1. Tucker, Spencer C. (20 August 2014). Persian Gulf War Encyclopedia: A Political, Social, and Military History. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-61069-416-2. U.S. Army Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center (1991).
The Iraqi government allocated the majority of its military expenditure to the Iraqi Army and by 1936 the Royal Iraqi Air Force had only 37 pilots and 55 aircraft. The following year, the Air Force showed some growth, increasing its number of pilots to 127. [12] This enabled it to purchase additional aircraft.
Most nations used obsolete combat types for advanced training, although large scale training programs such as the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) required more aircraft than were available and aircraft were designed and built specifically to fulfill training roles. Intermediate trainers were used in several countries but ...
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Anti-aircraft 24 [42] TWQ-1 Avenger United States: Anti-aircraft 100 [42] MIM-23 Hawk United States: Anti-aircraft 50 XXI variant Bofors 40 mm Sweden: Anti-aircraft autocanon 100 [48] Recently refurbished and made operational
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]
On the 1st of April 1941, Rashid Ali and members of the "Golden Square" led a coup d'état in Iraq.During the time leading up to the coup, Rashid Ali's supporters had been informed that Germany was willing to recognize the independence of Iraq from the British Empire; there had also been discussions on sending matériel to support the Iraqis and other Arab factions in fighting the British.
List of aircraft of the French Air Force during World War II; G. List of World War II military aircraft of Germany; List of German aircraft projects, 1939–1945;