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During Gulf War II, coalition forces made a stunning discovery in the Iraqi desert: dozens of fighter jets buried beneath ...
X has secured a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to deliver support services for the Iraq F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet ...
V2X has secured a cost-plus-fixed-fee, undefinitized contract action from the U.S. Air Force to support the Iraq F-16 program ...
A combat aircraft with a storied background and 65 confirmed kills has landed in Pueblo at the Weisbrod Aircraft Museum. Here ...
An Iraqi Air Force pilot prepares for a training mission at Contingency Operating Station Speicher in northern Iraq. (Heath Druzin/Stars and Stripes) ...
But in November 1986, Iraqi Air Force launched a bold raid against Larak Island oil terminal. Larak Island is located in the Strait of Hormuz and it was initially out of range of Iraqi aircraft.
Rounding out the Iraqi Air Force were jets less well known in the West but no-less vital to Saddam, like Su-7 and Su-17/20 fighter bombers, Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-22 heavy bombers, and even a few ...
Bash: They used to have the largest air force in the Middle East, 500-plus aircraft. They flew MiG-25s, Su-27s, some of the older MiG-21s, Mi-17 helicopters. And some of those pilots have come ...
Air Force Capt. Tim “Rhino” Bennett was hunting Scud missiles near Al-Qa’im in northwestern Iraq — much further north than where any other coalition aircraft were operating — when he and ...