List of Iraqi Air Force aircraft squadrons

Squadrons are the main form of flying unit of the Iraqi Air Force (IqAF).

Night flying certification for the UH-1 crews of the Iraqi 2nd Squadron
Savoia Marchetti SM.79Bs of the Iraqi Air force
Iraqi Air Force F-16C
Iraqi Air Force Antonov An-32B
Iraqi Air Force MiG-29

Notes

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  1. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 13
  2. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 14
  3. ^ a b c Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 24
  4. ^ a b c Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 34
  5. ^ Malovany 2017, 72 fn 6.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 45
  7. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, pp. IV, VII, 80
  8. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 74
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 8
  10. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 20
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. VIII
  12. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 35
  13. ^ Scramble.nl, January 2019
  14. ^ a b c d Delalande 2016, p. 71
  15. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 16
  16. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 50
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 65
  18. ^ Cully, 32.
  19. ^ “Huey II,” Advisor 4, no. 9 (3 March 2007): 11; MC2 Elisandro Diaz, “Iraqi Air Force Celebrates 76 years,” Advisor 4, no. 17 (28 April 2007): 4 and 5; and “First Five Iraqi Huey IIs Delivered,” Air International, April 2007, 8.
  20. ^ 66. Erik Holmes, “Iraqis Fly First Helicopter Training Sortie,” Air Force Times, 11 April 2007, [1]. 66
  21. ^ Cully
  22. ^ Elliott, DJ. "Iraqi Security Force Order of Battle" (PDF). Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  23. ^ Zielinski, Travis (25 January 2010). "Air Cav, Iraqi Air Force maintain partnership with joint flight". US Army. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  24. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 44
  25. ^ a b c Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 33
  26. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 39
  27. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. III
  28. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, pp. 69, VII
  29. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 57
  30. ^ a b c Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 59
  31. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 52
  32. ^ a b c Delalande 2016, p. 27
  33. ^ a b c d Delalande 2016, p. 28
  34. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 19
  35. ^ Allen, Patrick (8 February 2006). "New Iraqi Air Force boosted by aircraft and joint operations". Jane's Defence Weekly. p. 31. & Cully
  36. ^ a b c Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 22
  37. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 40
  38. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 48
  39. ^ a b c d e f g h i Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 53
  40. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. 19
  41. ^ a b Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. 58
  42. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 41
  43. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 43
  44. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2022, pp. 11–12
  45. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 22
  46. ^ a b c d e f Cooper 2021, p. 31
  47. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 51
  48. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 29
  49. ^ "Kuwait "Emergency", 1961". Air Combat Information Group. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  50. ^ a b c d e f Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 54
  51. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2022, pp. 24, 29
  52. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 22
  53. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 52
  54. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. 72
  55. ^ Allen 2006 and Cully
  56. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 61
  57. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 31
  58. ^ Delalande 2016, pp. 31–32
  59. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 32
  60. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2022, pp. 51–54
  61. ^ a b Cooper 2018, p. 14
  62. ^ a b c d e f Cooper 2018, p. 53
  63. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 30
  64. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. X
  65. ^ a b c d Cooper 2018, p. 34
  66. ^ a b c d e f Pierre Razoux, "The Iran-Iraq War," Harvard University Press, 2015, ISBN 0674088638, 9780674088634, p.540
  67. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 30
  68. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. VI
  69. ^ a b c d Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 44
  70. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. 60
  71. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2020, p. 78
  72. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 32
  73. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 29
  74. ^ a b "Appendix 2 (Air Order of Battle) to Annex B (Intelligence) to LOGCAP Contingency Support Plan" (PDF). White House FOIA/Army Materiel Command. 7 December 2002.
  75. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, pp. 15–16
  76. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. 51
  77. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 26
  78. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. 26
  79. ^ Cooper & Sipos 2019, p. 34
  80. ^ Cooper 2018, p. 40
  81. ^ Cooper 2021, pp. 26, 31, 33
  82. ^ Cooper 2021, p. 26
  83. ^ a b Sipos & Cooper 2022, p. 51
  84. ^ Sipos & Cooper 2022, pp. 49, 53
  85. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 24
  86. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 20
  87. ^ a b Delalande, Arnaud (28 February 2018). "Four Years After an ISIS Massacre, the Iraqi Air Force Opens a New Academy". War Is Boring. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  88. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 36
  89. ^ Delalande 2016, p. 33

References

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  • Cooper, Tom (2018). MiG-23 Flogger in the Middle East. Warwick: Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-912-390328.
  • Cooper, Tom (2021). In the Claws of the Tomcat. US Navy F-14 Tomcats in Air Combat Against Iran and Iraq, 1987-2000. Warwick, UK: Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-913118-75-4.
  • Cooper, Tom; Sipos, Milos (2019). Iraqi Mirages. The Dassault Mirage Family in Service with the Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988. Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-912-390311.
  • Cully, George W., "Adapt or fail : the USAF’s role in reconstituting the Iraqi Air Force 2004-2007" Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2016. ISBN 9781585662692. Public Domain - U.S. government work.
  • Delalande, Arnaud (2016). Iraqi Air Power Reborn, The Iraqi air arms since 2004. Houston: Harpia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9854554-7-7.
  • Malovany, Pesach, "Wars of Modern Babylon", University Press of Kentucky, June 2017, ISBN 0813169437 / ISBN 978-0813169439.
  • Sipos, Milos; Cooper, Tom (2020). Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970. Warwick, UK: Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-913118-74-7.
  • Sipos, Milos; Cooper, Tom (2022). Wings of Iraq, Volume 2: The Iraqi Air Force, 1970-1980. Warwick, UK: Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-914377-17-4.

Further reading

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  • Tom Cooper and Ahmad Sadik, Iraqi Fighters: 1953–2003: Camouflage and Markings. Harpia Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-615-21414-6.
  • Tom Cooper and David Nicolle, Arab MiG-19 and MiG-21 Units in Combat. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84176-655-0.
  • Tom Cooper and David Nicolle, Arab MiGs. Volume 1: Mikoyan i Gurevich MiG-15 and MiG-17 in Service with Air Forces of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and Syria. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2009, ISBN 978-0-9825539-2-3.
  • Tom Cooper and David Nicolle, Arab MiGs. Volume 2: Supersonic Fighters: 1956–1967. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2011, ISBN 978-0-9825539-6-1.
  • Tom Cooper, David Nicolle, Lon Nordeen and Patricia Salti: Arab MiGs. Volume 3: The June 1967 War. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2012, ISBN 978-0-9825539-9-2.