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The IRIAF came into being when the former Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) was renamed following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, in February 1979. The British publishing company Orbis' Warplane partwork magazine seems to indicate the renaming did not actually take place until after the Iran–Iraq War had broken out.
The Iranian Air Force received 40 Su-20/22s from Iraq in 1991. [15] While non-operational for several years, Iran started in 2013 an overhauling program for these. [16] In March 2015, 10 of the Iranian Air Force Su-22 were transferred to the Syrian Arab Air Force to fight in the ongoing Civil War. [17]
"Iranian Air-to-Air Victories, 1976–1981", Arabian Peninsula & Persian Gulf Database, Air Combat Information Group, 16 September 2003, archived from the original on 25 August 2013 "Iranian Air-to-Air Victories, 1982–Today" , Arabian Peninsula & Persian Gulf Database , Air Combat Information Group, 16 September 2003, archived from the ...
The agreement was for Iran to return them after the war, but the Iranians impounded these aircraft instead, claiming them as war reparations for the Iran–Iraq War. The IRIAF has pressed into service all of the 36 Su-24MKs , 7 SU-25s and 24 Mirage F.1BQs and F.1EQs flown from Iraq, while all the other types—including 40 Su-20/22s and at ...
In response, the Iranians deployed their F-4 Phantoms to combat the Iraqis, and eventually they deployed F-14s as well. By 1986, Iran also expanded their air defense network heavily to relieve the pressure on the air force. By later in the war, Iraqi air attacks were used only on fewer, more important targets. [169]
Iran on Sunday began an annual air force drill in the central part of country, state media reported, as the U.S. sends more fighter planes to the region to deter the Islamic Republic from seizing ...
Operation Alborz (Persian: عملیات البرز), [3] more commonly known by the code-name Operation Kaman 99 (عملیات کمان 99), [4] was an operation launched by the Iranian Air Force in retaliation to Iraqi surprise aerial attacks on Iran the day before which marked the beginning of the 8-year-long Iran–Iraq War.
Iranian soldiers during Iran-Iraq war, 1980s. In 1991, the Iranian armed forces received a number of Iraqi military aircraft being evacuated from the Persian Gulf War of that year; most of which were incorporated into the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.