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MiG-23s of the Iraqi Air Force and their performance at the beginning of the war. Related videos: The attack on H3: • The full story of the attack on H3. Iran's Phantoms at the beginning of the war: • Phantoms at the beginning of the war. Mirages (fighters) escaped from Iraq: • Iran's Mirages - spoils of war from Iraq. ... ========== Iraq thought that the MiG-23 fighter could be an ideal competitor for the F-14 Tomcat. Also, after the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1357 and the weakening of the air force by various factors, Saddam Hasban was convinced that the Iranian air force would not be able to stop the Iraqi war machine. Finally, after years of border conflict, the last months of which were full of tension, Iraq attacked Iran on the 31st of September 1359, and the Iran-Iraq war began. In this video, we first examined and reviewed the story of the MiG-23 fighters of the Iraqi Air Force; Then we discussed the terrible performance of this fighter and the Iraqi Air Force in general in the early months of the war. ========== Sources of this video: Book Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980-1988 Book MiG-23 Flogger in the Middle East MiG-23 Flogger in the Middle East Iraq} by Tom Cooper ========== 00:00 Introduction 00:34 Soviet-made MiG-23 02:54 Iraqi and Iranian air forces 05:37 Weakness in training 09:13 Iraqi MiG-23s 10:36 Border conflicts 12 :47 The start of the war 14:42 The failure of Iraq on the first day of the war 16:11 The first weeks of the Iran-Iraq war 19:12 MiG-23 casualties in the battle 19:38 The paralysis of the Iraqi Air Force 20:54 The continuation of the battle 22:24 The problems of the MiG-23 in Air Force 24:31 Reconstruction of the Iraqi Air Force 25:12 Operation Pearl /deltapi