Yes you read that right, in a stunning turn of events, the vaunted Iraqi Air Force has been discovered. Where you ask?! I'll take Serbia for 300 Alex. All joking aside, anyone know how far along the training of the Iraqi Air Force is?
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Iraqi Air Force disovered
Yes you read that right, in a stunning turn of events, the vaunted Iraqi Air Force has been discovered. Where you ask?! I'll take Serbia for 300 Alex. All joking aside, anyone know how far along the training of the Iraqi Air Force is?
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Saviors of the Japanese
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Wow, he has parts of his military hidden everywhere in the world it seems. Soon we'll find an Iraqi Aircraft Carrier in Kansas.
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Praefectus
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Did Iraq ever have one to hide?Originally Posted by Farnan
Hans Olo
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Not even close. At it's height it didn't have more than a few dozen frigates and corvettes. We sunk most of them in Desert Storm. it's hardly worth mentioning as currently constituted, consisting of about 1500 sailors, 800 of which are marines tasked with defending key coastal structures especially the GOPLAT's.
Take it easy,
Senator
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
You are wrong they were hidden! You will seen soon NASA will find a spacefighter on Mars will their next mission and it will have the iraqi insignia on it
Civitate
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Excellent lol, can you imagine their defence ministry at the time of the "discovery"? Must've been atleast one chap who was around at the time of the Iran/Iraq war who said "Ah yes, I forgot about those..."
And their WMDs in North Korea?
Praeses
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
lol, so Serbia was just mum about this or what?
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Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Iraq also apparently has 100 Jets in Iran which were flown out before Desert Storm. Don't think they'll be getting those back anytime soon.
"The ABC of our profession, is to avoid large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings."
- Marc Bloch
Under the Patronage of Lord Rahl
Praefectus
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Now that's a surprise. Saddam had friendly relations with the Serbs.
Thank God, both of the evils are taken out.
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Vicarius Provinciae
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"Mors Certa, Hora Incerta."
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Child of Nihil.
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Bloody Serbs. I sent my television off to Belgrade to get it repaired in 1988 and still haven't gotten it back.
As some are Mig-21's, should Iraq want them back?
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-Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937)
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Dux Limitis
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I'd pick them instead of the 23's...
Appearantly highly upgraded MiG-21's (Bison) are very capable aircraft.
These will have few flight hours I guess.
Miss me yet?
Child of Nihil.
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Hard to say what version they are. The Serbian facility will no doubt charge a small fortune for storing the jets, along with my television and your Grandmother's bicycle.
'When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything. '
-Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937)
Under the patronage of Nihil. So there.
Protector Domesticus
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
It's more probable that Serbs used the parts to repair their own Migs and now they are only useless junk.
Except that one which was in the museum. It's well preserved junk.
Has signatures turned off.
Comes Limitis
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
In a world of 4.5 and 5th generation fighters who would in their right mind be buying or introducing relict-class fighters?... They might as well be buying monoplanes and fit them with 50.cal guns.
Last edited by Holger Danske; September 05, 2009 at 04:35 PM.
Campidoctor
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
well if you are a small 2nd/3rd world country and are surrounded by similar countries these aircraft would come in handy.
In a world of 4.5 and 5th generation fighters who would in their right mind be buying or introducing relict-class fighters?... They might as well be buying monoplanes and fit them with 50.cal guns.
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На три свето и на три саставно,Одлазимо на Косово равно.
Кад је драга да одлазим чула,За ревер ми невен заденула.
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Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
well, there are enough Mig 21s to see most modern fighters run out of ammo... maybe that's the plan?
In a world of 4.5 and 5th generation fighters who would in their right mind be buying or introducing relict-class fighters?... They might as well be buying monoplanes and fit them with 50.cal guns.
Doesn't India still use Mig 21 in certain roles? If protected by other aircraft they might be still worth for simply delivering their payloads.
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Dux Limitis
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Haha, lol!
Miss me yet?
Saviors of the Japanese
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Well the Iraqi Military will use Abrams Tanks, Strykers, T-72s, T-55s, Hummvees, Dziks, Spartans, Turkish APCs, Saxons, BTRs, BMPs, South African APCs, Brazilian APCs, M16s, M4s, Dragonavs, RPGs, Serbian small arms, Katyushas, American Artillery, Little Birds, Hinds, hueys, MiHs, Eurocopters, F-16s and MiGs...
Can't they just pick a theme?
“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”
—Sir William Francis Butler
Child of Nihil.
Re: Iraqi Air Force disovered
Won't spare parts procurement be... tricky?
'When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything. '
-Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937)
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