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Home » Axe in Iraq (and Elsewhere) » Iraqi Air Force’s New Wings

Iraqi Air Force’s New Wings

All the atten­tion is on the army and police, right now. But Iraq’s tiny air force is about to get a bit big­ger, C4ISR Journal reports:
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Working through the U.S. Air Force, Iraqs nascent defense min­istry has ordered six new Raytheon King Air 350 twin tur­bo­prop air­craft and related sup­port ser­vices in a firm-​​fixed-​​price con­tract val­ued at $132 mil­lion. Disclosed by the Defense Department, the deal includes five King Air 350 Extended Range air­craft equipped for intel­li­gence, sur­veil­lance and recon­nais­sance mis­sions, and a sin­gle King Air 350 ear­marked for the light trans­port role. Support equip­ment, spare and repair parts, train­ing and tech­ni­cal data are included in the sales package.


The new planes will be oper­ated, in part, by 70 Squadron based at Basra Air Station. In October, U.S. Air Force advi­sor Lieutenant Colonel Kelly Latimer showed me the squadron’s mod­est fleet of single-​​engine Seeker and CH-​​2000 patrol planes, which she said could be out­run by cars. The King Airs are faster, can carry more sur­veil­lance gear and have longer legs but are still sim­ple and robust enough for the Iraqi Air Force to keep fly­ing.
$1 bil­lion in arms sales to the Iraqi gov­ern­ment, includ­ing the King Airs, helped the United States achieve record arms sales in 2006, as my boss Sharon Weinberger reported recently in Aviation Week:

[One] fac­tor dri­ving the bot­tom line is Iraq. Its sov­er­eign gov­ern­ment is now able to buy equip­ment directly from the U.S. [Jeffrey] Kohler, [direc­tor of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency] says Iraq is allo­cat­ing about $1 bil­lion a year out of its own bud­get to pur­chase defense equipment–and about $800 mil­lion has gone for U.S. equip­ment this year alone. With Iraq expect­ing to allo­cate $1 bil­lion annu­ally to arms pur­chases, such large buys from the U.S. could grow.


–David Axe

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