Iraqi Air Force Reborn

Iraqi Air Force Reborn
Author: Arnaud Delalande
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Air defenses
ISBN: 9780985455477

Iraqi Air Power Reborn provides the most authoritative account of the Iraqi air arms in the years following Operation Iraqi Freedom. In the space of over a decade since Harpia Publishing presented its groundbreaking and ever-popular Iraqi Fighters, the Iraqi Air Force has undergone an unprecedented transformation. Having been almost entirely decimated by coalition air strikes in 2003, and during the insurgency that followed, Baghdad has set about rebuilding its air power from scratch. This book summarizes the history of the Iraqi Air Force and its various incarnations until 2003 before detailing the efforts to establish a new-look Air Force, which began with training formations, before adding transport and reconnaissance squadrons, and finally attack and fighter squadrons - the latter now equipped with the Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon. Coverage also extends to Iraqi Army Aviation, and its various transport, special operations, armed reconnaissance and attack squadrons. Iraqi Army Aviation in particular has been blooded in the fighting that has plagued Iraq since the coalition invasion, and, using pilot testimonies and other sources, author Arnaud Delalande provides exhaustive coverage of successive campaigns waged by Iraqi air power against local and foreign insurgents, including the so-called Islamic State. As well as an overview of Iraq's air arsenal, therefore, this work also serves as a primer of the ongoing conflict within the country. A map of all current Iraqi air bases complements the comprehensive photographic coverage and a detailed order of battle is included, together with squadron patches. A full list is provided of aircraft serial numbers and attrition to all causes since 2004. Iraqi Air Power Reborn is one of the first books in an all-new format from Harpia Publishing. Those readers familiar with Harpia's previous titles will recognize the format, layout, and high-quality production standards. Compared to earlier Harpia titles, however, the new series are altogether more compact, running to a total of 80 pages, and enabling coverage of 'smaller' themes. Of course, these books also retain the now-familiar in-depth coverage, painstaking research and lavish illustrations of their 'bigger brothers'.

Desert Storm Air Power

Desert Storm Air Power
Author: Roy Braybrook
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1991-05-23
Genre: History
ISBN:

When Iraq invaded the sovereign state of Kuwait in the early hours of 2 August 1990 the United Nations immediately condemned the invasion and sanctioned the use of force to remove the Iraquis from Kuwait. At the time of the invasion the Iraqui Air Force was a large force, though without the tactical capabilities possessed by the Western forces. On 17 January 1991 Operation Desert Shield was initiated, targeting enemy airfields and air defence. The threat of the IAF was largely negated in the face of the overwhelming air superiority provided by the coalition forces.

Wings of Iraq

Wings of Iraq
Author: Tom Cooper
Publisher: Middle East@War
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781914377174

Officially established on 22 April 1931, around a core of 5 pilots and 32 aircraft mechanics, the Royal Iraqi Air Force was the first military flying service in any Arab country. Wings of Iraq, Volume 2 tells the story of the Iraqi Air Force between 1970 and 1980. In doing so it examines the air force's involvement in the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, and then the showdown with the Iranian-supported Kurdish insurgency in northern Iraq in 1974-1975. These two affairs taught the Iraqis that numbers alone did not make an air force. Correspondingly, during the second half of the 1970s, Baghdad embarked on a project based on full technology transfer from France, which was intended to result in preparing the IrAF for the twenty-first century. This process hardly began when the new ruler in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein at-Tikriti, led his country into an invasion of neighboring Iran, embroiling it in a ruinous, eight-year-long war. This volume details the events leading up to the beginning of that war and its opening moves in the air. Although virtually 'born in battle', collecting precious combat experience and playing an important role in so many internal and external conflicts, the Iraqi Air Force remains one of the least known and most misinterpreted military services in the Middle East. Richly illustrated, Wings of Iraq, Volume 2, provides a uniquely compact yet comprehensive guide to its operational history, its crucial officers and aircraft, and its major operations between 1970 and 1980.

Adapt Or Fail

Adapt Or Fail
Author: George Cully
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-05-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781097783458

Prior to its involvement with the Iraqi air force in 2004, the US Air Force (USAF) was relatively inexperienced in helping to create an air force for a partner nation. Usually the partner nation would already have an air force and the requisite infrastructure-only needing better airplanes, more training, or additional spare parts for the equipment already on hand. None of those conditions were present in Iraq when the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) was tasked to create an air corps for what the Coalition Provisional Authority called the New Iraqi Army. Nor were the handful of USAF personnel assigned to the CMATT air cell (CMATT-A) given any special preparations or high-level support and oversight after that task had morphed into the creation of a full-fledged Iraqi air force- and all that must accompany such an undertaking-in 2005.The resulting ad hoc nature of CMATT-A's operations combined with other factors to produce an untenable situation for the USAF, USAF Reserve, and other Department of Defense component advisors involved. Unfortunately, that increasingly serious situation did not garner the attention of the USAF's senior leadership until such neglect was found to be a contributing factor in an aircraft accident that took the lives of five dedicated Airmen-four USAF members and an Iraqi Air Force officer-on 30 May 2005.This study summarizes the events that led up to that accident and the consequences that followed, including the decision to replace CMATT-A with a larger, better-resourced organization led by a USAF general officer, the recognition of the need to deploy significantly greater numbers of suitably trained USAF instructor/advisor Airmen to Iraq, and the concerted action to assist the Iraqi Air Force in obtaining more capable aircraft. These improvements took the better part of two years' analyses, preparations, investment, and adjustments. This study summarizes the essentials of that complex sequence of events. It is a story about accomplishing a demanding, unheralded mission under harrowing conditions in a foreign land.

Wings of Iraq

Wings of Iraq
Author: Tom Cooper
Publisher: Middle East@War
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781913118747

Virtually born in battle, collecting precious combat experience and playing involved in so many conflicts, the Iraqi Air Force remains one of the most misinterpreted military services in the Middle East. Wings over Iraq provides a uniquely compact yet comprehensive guide to its operational history, officers, aircraft, and major operations.

Iraq's Armed Forces

Iraq's Armed Forces
Author: Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2008-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134145640

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the Iraqi military from the British mandate era to post-Baathist Iraq. Ethnic and sectarian turmoil is endemic to Iraq, and its armed forces have been intertwined with its political affairs since their creation. This study illustrates how the relationship between the military and the political centre in Iraq has evolved, with the military bringing about three regime changes in Iraq’s history before being brought under control by Saddam Hussein, up until the 2003 war. The instability that followed was partly due to the failure to create a new military that does not threaten the government, yet is still strong enough to deter rival factions from armed conflict. The reconstitution of the armed forces will be a prerequisite for an American withdrawal from Iraq, but this book argues that immense challenges lie ahead, despite the praise from the Bush administration for the progress of the new Iraqi army.

Iraqi Mirages

Iraqi Mirages
Author: Tom Cooper
Publisher: Middle East@War
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781912390311

Originally envisaged and acquired as a 'pure' interceptor, before long the Mirage F.1 in Iraqi service proved a highly capable multi-role platform aircraft, and was widely deployed not only for ground attack but also anti-shipping purposes, as an aerial tanker, and for delivering long-range pin-point attacks.

Military of Iraq

Military of Iraq
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230578149

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 123. Chapters: Iraqi Air Force, Iraqi Army, Iraqi Navy, Iraqi military personnel, Military equipment of Iraq, Military history of Iraq, Military installations of Iraq, Military units and formations of Iraq, Paramilitary forces of Iraq, Technical, Republican Guard, Anglo-Iraqi War, Iraqi Armed Forces, Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad, Invasion of Kuwait, Mesopotamian campaign, Battle of Gaugamela, Salman Pak facility, Iraqforce, SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, Iraq 1973-1990, Baghdad Central Prison, Iraqi Ground Forces Command, Camp Taji, Sharifian Army, Camp Ashraf, Siege of Kut, Al Hussein, Iraqi biological weapons program, Battle of Wadi, FOB Iskandariyah, List of current equipment of the Iraqi Army, Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2, RAF Habbaniya, Camp Cropper, RAF Iraq Command, Battle of Jalula, Combatants of the Iraq War, Lionel Charlton, International aid to combatants in the Iran-Iraq War, Latif Yahia, Fort Suse, Habforce, Fuhrer Directive No. 30, Anbar Salvation Council, Fedayeen Saddam, Alleged British use of gas in Mesopotamia in 1920, Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, Al Taqaddum, Iraqi Popular Army, COB Speicher, Iraqi Army Ranks Insignia, FOB Kalsu, List of former equipment of the Iraqi Army, Action of Khan Baghdadi, Siege of Baghdad, FOB Duke, Forward Operating Base Falcon, Urartu-Assyria War, Timeline of the Gulf War, Gocol, Battle of Ayn al-Tamr, Special Republican Guard, Golden Square, Ministry of Defence, Joint Forward Intelligence Team, Battle of Hira, Seleucid-Parthian wars, Battle of Ramadi, Saadoun al-Dulaimi, The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Directorate of General Military Intelligence, Number 2 Armoured Car Company RAF, Iraqi M80 Helmet, Jasim Mohammed Saleh, Kingcol, Mercol, Combat Outpost Shocker, MEK Compound, Al-Shaheed Monument, Samarrah Offensive, Camp Rustamiyah, List of United States...

Iraqi Fighters

Iraqi Fighters
Author: Ahmad Sadik
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780615214146

This book provides an exclusive insight into service history of 13 fighter jet types - from Vampires and Hunters to MiG-29s and Su-24s - that served with Royal Iraqi Air Force (RIrAF) and Iraqi Air Force (IrAF) between 1953 and 2003. Serious investigative research, including exclusive primary evidence gathered by both authors in- and outside Iraq, generated a level of detail and color of unmatched degree in any previous publications about any Arab air force. The result is a detailed history of RIrAF and IrAF markings, serial numbers and camouflage patterns, the in-depth history of each Iraqi fighter squadron, their equipment over the time as well as unit and various special insignias. Richly illustrated with photographs and artworks, the book provides details about a number of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons, many put to the ultimate test only by the Iraqi Air Force. A list of original names for air bases used by IrAF is included as well. An appendix lists the existing plastic scale model kits in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale as well as decals sheets in regards to Iraqi Air Force.