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Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Two Novel Air Arms
- The Beginning
- British Intervention in the Gulf
- The Baghdad Pact
- The CIA Connection
- The Royal Iraqi Air Force
- The CENTO Pact
- New engagements with Kurds and Israel
- Shopping for the latest aircraft
- Notes
Chapter 2: The Shah’s Eagles
- An emerging Regional Power
- Peace Roll
- Phantastic Phantom deals
- The Mother of all Build-ups
- The Persian Cat...
- ...and the Persian King
- Organization and mission of the IIAF
- Spy Missions and Border Incidents
- The Intervention in Oman
- Excessive Foreign Involvement
- The Revolution
- Order of Battle; IIAF/IRIAF and IIAA/IRIAA, 1978/1980
- Notes
Chapter 3: Saddam’s Falcons
- Iraqi Air Support Command
- Saddam’s Falcons: the IrAF Air Defense Command
- Breaking the Ice
- Algiers Accord and the Iranian Secret War
- Border Skirmishing
- Coup d’etat
- Hot Summer of 1980
- Order of Battle; Iraqi Air Force and Iraqi Army Air Corps, 1980
- Notes
Chapter 4: First Gulf War, Phase I: Another Day of Infamy
- Misfortunes of the IrAF
- The Impaired Offensive
- The Invasion
- Revenge
- Desperate to Land
- Deadlock over the Front
- Persian Eagles
- Problems on the Ground, Success in the Air
- The First Iraqi Breakthrough
- Arab Traditions
- Notes
Chapter 5: Phase II: Iraqi Spearhead into Iran
- The “Noonday Phantom”
- Dezful under Threat
- The First Osirak Raid
- Fighting for Khuzestan
- A Draw
- Problems with SA-6
- The Battle of Karun River
- Double Trouble
- The Interception of the “Baghdad Express”
- Double Kill
- The Advance Towards Kermanshah
- Resupplying Problems
- The Fall of Khoramshahr
- Operation Morvarid: The Assault Against Iraqi Oil Rigs
- Notes
Chapter 6: Phase III: Iranian Counteroffensives
- An Eye for an Eye
- The Premature Offensive
- All Bombs Away?!
- Chieftains on the Move
- Holding the Line
- Tomcats over Khark
- The Mirage Comes True
- The H-3 “Blitz”
- Turning the Tides
- Maintenance Challenges
- Iranian Art of Interdiction Strikes
- Operation “Opera” - The Israeli Strike Against the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor
- Saving Abadan
- Exocet Debut
- Fat’holmobin: the Decisive Phase
- Beit-ol-Moqaddass
- Liberation of Khoramshahr
- Turmoil in Iraq
- Notes
Chapter 7: Phase IV: Entering Iraq
- A Friend in Need
- Iraqi Buildups and Iranian Misgivings
- Dowran’s Last Raid
- Anti-shipping Operations
- Fort Khark Island
- Trading Hot Punches
- Beans and Bullets...but Foremost Gas
- The Controversial Claim
- The other Turkey Shoot
- Solid Phoenix
- New Impulses
- The Big MiG Hunt
- Unarmed Stragglers
- Valfajr Chain-Offensives
- The Bloody Summer and Autumn
- Slugging Matches
- Sugar for Iraq
- IrAF – The Next Generation
- Notes
Chapter 8: Phase V: Total War
- Genesis of the “Tanker War”
- Fighting on Two Fronts
- State of Air Warfare
- Operation Kheibar: The Knife Attack into Iraq
- Heliborne Invasion
- High Speed Chase
- The First Siege of Khark
- Iran Strikes back
- The Clash with the Saudis
- An Eye for an Eye
- A New Breed of Iranian Air Force
- Extending the Danger Zone
- Convoy Ho!
- Super Etendards on the Prowl
- New Escalation in “War of the Cities”
- Operation Badr
- War of the Cities: Phase Two
- Changing of the Guard
- Khark Under Siege: Round Two
- Electronic Ping-Pong
- Tit for Tat
- Notes
Chapter 9: Phase VI: The Grand Slam
- The Gate to Iran
- Maintenance Problems
- Weapons Struggle
- Reorganization of the Air Defense Network
- New Organization of the Battlefield
- IRIAF Practice Maneuvers
- Shadow-Boxing
- Valfajr-8: the “Decisive” Assault
- The Silkworm Hunt
- Fighting the Republican Guards
- Iraq Strikes Back
- The New War of the Cities
- IRIAF Counter-air Strikes
- Fruitless Iraqi Counteroffensives
- A Souvenir From the Land of Palm Trees
- Trying Here and There
- Tanker Plinking
- Results of the Eighth Valfajr
- Intelligence Assistance... or a Shell Game?
- Notes
Chapter 10: Phase VII: Trading Hot Punches
- Reorganizing the IrAF
- IRINA in Action
- Against Helicopters at Haaj-Omran
- A Brawl of Strategic Proportions
- Counterattack at Mehran
- Tomcat to the Rescue
- Long-Range Raiders
- Fortress of Steel
- Iraqi Eyes and Ears in the Persian Gulf
- Can They or Can’t They?
- The Cauldron
- Brethren in Word and Deed
- The Larak Raid
- The Blundered “Final” Offensive
- Notes
Chapter 11: Phase VIII: The Mess in the Gulf
- Karbala-5
- Touchable
- Bad Times for Iran
- Make or Break
- The Oil Interdiction War
- The Last Concerted Push Against Khark
- Deadly Showstopper in the South
- Western Intervention
- Fulcrum on the Horizon
- Iraqi Wild Weasels
- Project Super Base
- The Mess in the Gulf
- Convoys for Kuwait
- Dead or Alive?
- New Anti-Shipping Strikes
- The Mini-war in October
- Crawling Silkworm
- Counter-air over Khuzestan
- The Terror of Soviet Wild Weasels
- The Chaos
- Notes
Chapter 12: Phase IX: The Final Air Battle
- Forgotten Warriors
- Tanker Killers
- Three kills in Two Hours
- Hunters being Hunted
- The Last War of the Cities
- The Final Blow Against the Tanker Shuttle
- Turning the Tide
- Baghdad Revisited
- Operation Ramadhan al-Mubarak: the Beginning of the End
- Praying Mantis
- Rock and Roll
- The Main Target
- In God We Trust
- To Have is to Hold
- The End of the War—at Sea...
- ...in the Air and on the Ground
- The Dirty Game of the NLA
- Notes
Summary
- Air-to-Air Warfare
- Aircraft Performance
- Air-to-Air Weapons Performance
- Air-to-Ground and Anti-Ship Operations
- Helicopters in Combat
- The Experiences About Which Nobody Cares?
- Notes
Aircraft Markings
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Iran - IIAF/IRIAF
- Iraq - RIrAF/IrAF
- Notes
Glossary
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