The Real Iraqi Airforce(Saddam Era and before)

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Iraqi Su-22 which fled to Iran

 

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Mirage F1 never delivered

 

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[somebozo]

Saddam was an incompetent commander and planner. He wasted all that money into building an impressive numerical superiority but nothing in terms of building the RD capacity needed for actual development of such machines.

 

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Iraqi Mi-24 Hind captured by Iran during Iran Iraq war
shortly after capture

 

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Iraqi MiG-25 and Pilots

 

[blackcobran]

sadam was a satanist.

what???? are you ok??

 

[revojam]

Very informative thread

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

If you ask me if Saddam was an impetuous idiot? I would say, yes, he was. But he was a man among men who refused to bow one inch to his enemies. Allah Yerhamoh,

 

[kollang]

If you ask me if Saddam was an impetuous idiot? I would say, yes, he was. But he was a man among men who refused to bow one inch to his enemies. Allah Yerhamoh,

yes....a man...a man who couldnt pity his own people.a man who used chemical weapon agaist civilians... while that satanic mullah in jamaran ordered his soldier not use any chemical weapon and not to hit any civilian target.
but history proved good one is superior to the bad one at the end.
may allah give him and his "supporters" same place in qiamat.

 

[REHAN NIAZI FALCON]

I was active duty when 91 kicked off. My old squadron was deployed to KSA, and I knew those men... I knew what they were capable of in their brand-new F-15's. At the end of the 1980's, the USAF was at the absolute peak of its strength. Never before or since had the USAF been as potent in numbers and training. All of this came about because Reagan wanted to spend the Soviets into oblivion... So we had all the jets, parts, and fuel we'd ever have dreamed of for training.

If we could have an imaginary war of the 1990 USAF vs. the 2011 USAF, I'd take the 1990 force, purely based upon numbers and training.

Facing the USAF was a bit of a paper tiger. They had some hardware, but we knew they did not have the training and tactics to match. When the Air War kicked off, I told my wife, "If the Iraqis put up a fight, we'll have new jet aces inside of a week." What happened, as we now know, is that they put up a fight for maybe 3 days, and the losses were extraordinary. Nothing will kill a squadron morale worse than seeing 4 take off, and only one (or none) return. Soon, it became (for the Iraqis) "If we fly, we die." They stood down, then decided to run for Iran. We called them "Taco Bell missions" as in "Run for the border", an old Taco bell restaurant advertisement. The Taco Bell missions were all run, no fight, and while a lot of jets made it to Iran, a lot more were shot down enroute.

So in a nutshell, we had both training AND technology on our side, and the air war was very lopsided. That takes nothing away from the Iraqi pilots. It was out of their hands. Without excellent training, there is little they could have done. Kind of like trying to run a marathon but not training for it. You're going to get smoked by the guy who is in shape.

well said sir ..............

 

[doublemaster]

How can i forgive him?

One of my family member who never returned from Kuawait because of him. He was supposed to come back one day and we were all waiting for him. But suddam attacked city. His mother died waiting for him.

Only thing good i can say about him is. He died bravely.