Iraq Receives Four F-16 Fighter Aircraft From US

[Zarvan]

Iraqi F-16 fighter jet
Rudaw on Sunday.

The US temporarily postponed the delivery of the planes in 2014 after Islamic State (IS) takeover of army installations in Nineveh province. The planes were instead sent to an Arizona air base where Iraqi pilots were being trained to fly the advanced aircraft, the daily reported.

A total of 26 pilots are expected to be trained, and 16 have been in training so far. US Air Force officials have said the Iraqis are being trained by the Air National Guard Unit at Tucson International Airport.

"The Iraqis have put those to good use," Colonel Steve Warren, a spokesman for the US-led military campaign against Islamic State told Reuters in February. "We look forward to this additional capability along with the additional trained pilots."

The US has so far delivered 10 F-16s in three phases since 2014.

http://www.defenseworld.net/news/16785/Iraq_Receives_Four_F_16_Fighter_Aircraft_From_US#.V6nVqyNRXqA

 

[LaaL]

Which block they are giving to Iraq?

 

[TOPGUN]

By the picture looks perhaps like a block 52 !

 

[f1000n]

Block 52 with sniper pod, some with CFT.

Lacks : AIM-120, AIM-9x, JDAM. Instead they come with AIM-7, Paveway laser guidance kits and AIM-9L/M. A good aircraft.. with old weaponry. All F-16 operators in the region have better weaponry for these jets, even Egypt which has no AMRAAM was sold cluster bombs and anti radiation missiles.

 

[neem456]

Wasting money, they should had given them to afghanistan rather to secure their borders.

Bring that damn f-16 manufacturing facility to india, and manufacture them cheap to be provided to friendly nations like afghanistan and others.

 

[f1000n]

Wasting money, they should had given them to afghanistan rather to secure their borders.

Bring that damn f-16 manufacturing facility to india, and manufacture them cheap to be provided to friendly nations like afghanistan and others.

Lol
'Giving'..

They were sold for billions of dollars.

 

[LaaL]

Wasting money, they should had given them to afghanistan rather to secure their borders.

Bring that damn f-16 manufacturing facility to india, and manufacture them cheap to be provided to friendly nations like afghanistan and others.

 

[Hamza913]

Wasting money, they should had given them to afghanistan rather to secure their borders.

Bring that damn f-16 manufacturing facility to india, and manufacture them cheap to be provided to friendly nations like afghanistan and others.

You'd like that wouldn't you? Unfortunately, your dream of getting Afghanistan to fight us as well won't happen, and if it does. we will shut that sh*t down.

 

[Blue Marlin]

iraq is the last customer for the f16, the production will close next year

 

[LaaL]

iraq is the last customer for the f16, the production will close next year

Then India will started to build for IAF and for the customers who are operating F-16.
Not only F-16 but also F-18 and probably soon F-35 also.

 

[Blue Marlin]

Then India will started to build for IAF and for the customers who are operating F-16.
Not only F-16 but also F-18 and probably soon F-35 also.

ok

 

[Hamza913]

Then India will started to build for IAF and for the customers who are operating F-16.
Not only F-16 but also F-18 and probably soon F-35 also.

I highly doubt that.

 

[LaaL]

I highly doubt that.

Me too even 100% sure

 

[Windjammer]

Not sure about it's performance in the game but seems Iraqi football team is a big fan of F-16s.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Wasting money, they should had given them to afghanistan rather to secure their borders.

Bring that damn f-16 manufacturing facility to india, and manufacture them cheap to be provided to friendly nations like afghanistan and others.

Unlike Afghanistan, atleast F-16 will see some action in Iraq in dispatching terrorists back to hell.