Iraqi Air Force (189) Israel (581) Israeli Air Force (581) Italy (762) Italian Air Force (506) Italian Army Aviation (256) Japan (779) Japan Air Self-Defense Force (779) Malaysia (163) Royal Malaysian Air Force (163) Nigeria (132) Nigerian Air Force (132) North Korea (951) Korean People's Army Air Force (951) Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order (1 … During the same period, however, the Air Force lost just one A-10 to enemy fire and two Air Mobility Command (AMC) aircraft suffered SAM strikes out of 236 attempts. But Iranian fighter pilots were very, very good and Iraqi pilots usually had to flee the skies before the onslaught of Iranian F-14 Tomcats. The rebuilding Iraqi Air Force is showcasing quite a different look from its pre-invasion days.

Iraqi Air Force Col. Yossif Halo, the base air terminal operations center commander, sits with the team and casually highlights the familiarity he has with his American counterparts. In a small office space at Al Muthana Air Base, U.S. Air Force 370th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group air advisors and Iraqi airmen enjoy a small cup of tea together. The Iraqi F-16IQ Block 52 aircraft were refueled from a Stratotanker over Iraq for the first time.
In the Iran-Iraq War that lasted until the late 1980s, the Iraqi Air Force could reasonably hold its own against the superior U.S.- bought aircraft flown by the Islamic Republic of Iran at the time. The first air operation of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was a psychological operation leaflet drop on 9 March 2003. There are a total of [ 22 ] individual aircraft entries in the Active Iraqi Air Force Aircraft (2020) category in the Military Factory.