What Iraqui realy have!!!!
Hi:
Sorry for the late post, I was working in my thesis and I had not had time of viewing the forum
This is an Iraqi Air Force strength report at start of war, losses, flights to Iran and remaining aircraft after war intel report.
Source: Iraqi Perspectives Project Phase II. Um Al-Ma'arik (The Mother of All Battles): Operational and Strategic Insights from an Iraqi Perspective, Volume 1 (Revised May 2008)
Do the math to see how many planes they have at the start of US War vs Iraq
Aircraft MiG-29 B and A
1990 37
destroyed 17
damaged 4
To Iran 4
survived 12
The table has more info of other planes, but the controversy is the Mig-29
Also the MiG-29B (Izdeliye 9.12B) is the downgraded export version for non-warsaw pact nations. It possessed downgraded radar and other systems, ECM and IFF. NATO reporting code is "Fulcrum-A" for those that know it in that way.
And after a consult with a uncle of mine of the Air Force also he is a Mig-29 pilot, he tell me that the iraqi have a decent readiness but they were flaying in old planes and with lite o non ground support, and were outnumbered.
On this subject the US sources:
Woods, Kevin; Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, James G. Lacey (2006). The Iraqi Perspective Report. Naval Institute Press
Cooper, Tom (2003). "Iraqi Air Force Since 1948 Part 2". Air Combat Information Group. Retrieved 2008-08-28
Also confirm what my uncle says.
I think that we should leave this topic and center in the new airplane that will come out in DCS and if the discussion still continues, we better open another tread...
Shinigami Out......