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For those interested, a sneak-preview of "Arab MiGs, Volume 2" is now available here: http://www.harpia-publishing.com/index-ArabMiGsVol2.html A lots of space in this book is devoted to the history of the Iraqi Air Force in the 1950s and 1960s. For example: - Chapter 1 covers the history of the Iraq...

Thanks for this recollection, Mirage. Records of the IrAF H-6 operations are very scarce.

That's why it is so important to keep on collecting whatever information is available about the history of Iraqi MiG-25 operations: the more facts (documents, participant recollections etc.) we could get, the more are we going to know.

Hayder, yes, there is one bookshop in Vienna that has these books too (Universitätsbuchhandlung Schaden, in 1010 Wien). However, if you are really going to be around here, I would be priviledged to (finally) present the copies of all three books (Iraqi Fighters and Arab MiGs Vol.1 and Vol.2) persona...

This is to announce the book "Arab MiGs, Volume 2" is going to be published around 25 October this year. First deliveries to various book-shops in Europe can be expected around 1-2 weeks later (i.e. through the first half of November). Bellow a scan of the title-page. In regards of what can be found...

Sadly, there is no definite answer to your question, Tango. The list posted on the link above was compiled back in the 1990s, and never completed. It was also never updated with additional information we've received since 2004-5 or so. Still, it contains "only" some 11-14 out of a total of about 20-...

Yup, that was the No.20 or "al-Araba" Squadron, opearting around 26 MiG-19S - some left from the original deliveries from the USSR to Egypt, but also including 7-8 ex-IrAF examples donated in 1964. Except for above-mentioned examples named after Baghdad, Beirut etc. there were also examples named "a...

...is it imprecise as to the aircraft designations, or imprecise as to the numbers shown ? Inprecise in regards of designations. H-28C ( or Kh-28C -anglicized), is that the correct designation ? I'm asking becasue to my knowledge there's no "C " in the cyrilic alphabet, can it be actually Kh-28S ?(...

Hope you don't mind me answering point-by-point, Mack (really, no pun intended). On page 373 there is this table regarding the Iraq AF holdings and losses during the war. The designation errors were probably kept as in the original. ( "Sukhoi-21" or "MiG-23MK" etc ). I see. Thanks. I'm nearly stunne...

mack8 كتب:What was so bad in that BAZ contract that caused a near-mutiny, if i may ask ?

Sorry, but more about that topic when the time comes.

Mirage F1 كتب:Is that mean the information in your website ACIG will be changed

Hope, we're sometimes going to find some time to do that as well.

Iraq had a contract to assemble 52 Mirage 2000S 2-seat strikers from France. Along with that contract it also included local construction of 120 or so Alphajet aircraft to become the primary trainer of the Iraqi air force. Iraq had also included as part of the "french deal" a plan to assemble an un...

I'm a bit confused about the designations used, especially Su-22M2 and M3. Reading thru this topic , is it to be assumed that Su-22M2 and M3 were Iraqi AF personnel designations for these aircraft ? (not unheard of as other airforces uses local unoficial designations for aircraft in service). These...

Very interesting. Thanks for this information.

Thank you, Raaft!

Is there a chance you could ask Mr. Al-Abusi how comes that only four of these were operational as of September 1980?