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Chapter Six: Desert Storm: Shaping Coalition Air Power and the Air Campaign, and Fighting the War for Air Supremacy
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Citat:As the discussion of the Iraqi Air Force in Chapter Three has made clear, there are conflicting estimates of Iraq's air strength before the Gulf War, many of which seem to reflect under counts of deliveries after 1987. Table 6.4 shows a typical overview of the strength of Iraqi forces as listed in open sources. There is no way, however, to be certain of what estimate of Iraq's operational strength is correct. It is doubtful that Iraq had much more than 750 fixed wing aircraft operational in
any kind of combat status.5 If one looks at different estimates of Iraq's strength by aircraft type, it also seems likely that the Iraqi Air Force had two bomber squadrons with 7-12 Tu-22 Blinders, and 8-14 Tu-16 Badgers (including 4 PRC-made B/H-Ds). It had roughly 22 Fighter-ground attack squadrons: one with 16-48 Su-24s, five with 70-90 MiG-23BM/Ns (24 Flogger E and 50 Flogger F), four with 23-34 Mirage F-1EQ-200s with Exocet, and 35 Mirage F-1EQ5s and EQ6s), four with 40-60 Su-25A/Bs, 4 with 70 Su-20/Su-22s, 2 with 30 Su-7s, and 2 with 30 J-6s. According to some reports, it also had up to 40 MiG-27 Flogger Js.6 The Iraqi Air Force seems to have had 13-17 interceptor squadrons. Its allweather fighters included 22 MiG-25A/Es, 35 Mirage F-1EQs, 35 MiG-29s. Its day fighters included 40 J-7s, and 206 MiG-21s.7 This gave Iraq a total of at least 300 air defense aircraft. This count, however is somewhat misleading in that a number of Iraq's attack fighters were dual-capable in air defense roles. If these aircraft were added, Iraq's air defense assets would include 159 all-weather air defense fighters (35 MiG-29, 65 Mirage F-1EQ, 37 MiG-23G, 22 MiG-25A/E), and 246 day/visual flight rule fighters (206 MiG-21 and 40 MiG-23E).8 Iraq had one reconnaissance squadron with 5 MiG-21s and 7-8 MiG-25s, two types of Soviet-made remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs), and developmental versions of two Iraqi-built RPVs. The first was called the Al Yamamah-A, a multi-mission RPV carrying daylight and infra-red cameras. The second was called the Sarab-3, a modification of the British TTL-3 Banshee target drone. Iraq also had the Il-76 Candid that Iraq modified to act as an "Adnan" AEW aircraft. Iraq's aircraft were normally based at main operating air bases at H-3, H-2, Al-Asad and Al Taqaddum in the West; Qayyarah West, Tall Afar, Mosul, and Kirkuk in the north; Balad, Rasheed, Shayka Mazar, and Al Jarah in the center-east; and Kut al Hayy, Talil, Jalibah, and Shaibah in the south.
As has been discussed earlier, the Iraqi Army air corps added at least 160 combat helicopters to Iraq's air strength, including 40-45 Mi-24 Hind with the AT-2 Swatter, 20-50 SA-342 Gazelle (some with HOT), 56 Bo-105 with SS-11 and HOT, 30 SA-316B Alouette III with AS-12, and 10-13 SA-321 Super Frelons. Some of the Super Frelons were equipped with Am-38 Exocet and some with AS-12 missiles. Iraq's transport aircraft included two squadrons with 10 An-12s, six An-24s, two An-26s, 19 Il-76s, 19 Il-14s, and one DH Heron. Iraq had been using the Il-76 as a tanker since 1985, and had modified some of its MiG-23BNs (Flogger Hs) for airborne refueling by using the same system as on its Mirage F-1EQs.10 The Iraqi Air Force had large reserves of training aircraft, including MiG-15s, MiG-21s, MiG-23Us, 2 Tu-22s, 16 Mirage F-1BQs, 50 PC- 7s, and 21 EMB-312s
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The Coalition Battle Against Iraqi Surface-to-Air Missile Forces
Iraqi surface-to-air missile forces had more success than Iraq's fighters in attacking Coalition aircraft, but as Table 6.8 has shown, this success was still extraordinarily limited. This is particularly the case if one considers the the strength of the Iraqi air defense system. As has been discussed in chapter Three, Iraq had approximately 129-130 surface-to-air missile sites and complexes, and 18 major surface-to-air missile support facilities. These included 20-30 operational SA-2 batteries with 160 launch units, 25-50 SA-3 batteries with 140 launch units, and 36-55 SA-6 batteries with well over 100 fire units.54 Baghdad had more dense air defenses at the start of the Gulf War than any city in Eastern Europe, and more than seven times the total surface-to-air missile launcher strength deployed in Hanoi during the height of the Vietnam War.
Citat: Iraq's Shorter Range Surface-to-Air Missiles: The Other Side of the Story
Iraq's shorter range surface-to-air missiles presented a different kind of threat, although a very real one. According to US estimates, Iraq had 137-154 medium surface-toair defense sites in Iraq (plus 20-21 in Kuwait). These sites were widely dispersed, and those that used missiles, infra-red guidance did not require the used of radar, and could be fired on a target of opportunity basis. The missiles deployed on the sites in Iraq included at least 20 SA-8 batteries with 30-40 fire units, 60-100 SA-9 fire units, and 50 to 66 Rolands. 68 Iraq also had 6,500 SA-7, 400 SA-9, 192 SA-13s, and 288 SA-14 short range missile fire units; it had 972 anti-aircraft artillery sites, 2,404 fixed anti-aircraft guns, and 6,100 mobile anti-aircraft guns. Separate US estimates indicate that Iraq had dispersed extensive numbers of crew/vehicle deployed SA-9s and SA-13s, and man-portable SA-14s, and SA-16s throughout the KTO. They also indicate that Iraq had deployed more than 3,700 antiaircraft guns in the KTO with barrels larger than 14.5 mm, and that these medium to heavy AA guns were supplemented by more than 10,000 guns with barrels of 14.5mm or less in the ground forces in the KTO that could be used in some form of anti-aircraft role.
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