This apparently one of the helicopters type Bell 407 were seized by insurgents in Ninevah?

that is a photoshop? or a pic from Anbar Operations?

the situation now in Iraq.

basically its at the point of “separating” into three states:

-Kurdistan
-ISIS
-Sumer & Akkad (a.k.a southern Iraq)

in terms of assets what is available now (to the de-facto shia state of “sumer and akkad”):

8-14 Mi35M helos (including 6 delivered yesterday)
27 EC-635s
30 IA-407s
50 Mi171s
3x AC-208 combat caravans
10x King Air 350i ISR planes

what they “need” desperately:
dozens of armed drones to hit the fast moving and unpredictable Daesh terrorist convoys and keeping ISAR radar coverage over a large chunk of Iraq to forewarn of these attack.

Some hardened attack aircraft (A10, SU25s) but in sufficient numbers to tackle the 20+ “contact zones” with the terrorists!

Contact zones in central Iraq between ISIS and “sumer & akkad”
contact zones in the north between ISIS and Kurdistan.

So both “zones” need air support in order to contain first, and eventually “neutralise” the ISIS/Daesh threat.

What year was the UH-60 and AB-412 offered? I don’t remember hearing about those.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/iraq-looking-for-more-lightmed-utility-helicopters-05965/

and

http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/iraq-bell-412-ep-helicopters

also you had many things like the troposcatter radios

http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/iraq-mobile-troposcatter-radio-systems

that they ended up buying somewhere else,

and 36 AT6B texans… that they ended up cancelling

http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/iraq-texan-ii-aircraft-spare-parts-and-other-support

and many many others…

they will be used as light attack aircraft.

coincidentally, there was a news report in Iraq recently which stated that Iraq leased 2x SU-25s from Russia for urgent use in the battles in Anbar. It seems they’re truly building up a hodge podge of whatever airframes they can scrape together if that news turns out to be true….

so they’ll have the following light attack aircraft:
-12 L159s
-24x FA-50s
-36x F16-IQ
-2x SU-25s (unconfirmed)
-24x AT-6C (this is a maybe)

but still no capable interceptor… yawn. The Iraqi MOD seem to be operating in their own universe where they acquire assets once the SHTF and not actually plan ahead at all… maybe they need a nice little Iranian / Saudi air incursions to wake them up a bit.

your best bet is to try iraqimilitary.org forum.

The only thing I know is that the Iraqis chose the “non nuclear” variant of the Mirage-2000N + “conventional ASMP” instead in the end. Of course the 1991 gulf war meant it was never delivered.

I’m sure a VP at dassault would “know” if it was true though.

Commander of the Iraqi Air Force just announced that France has offered to sell Iraq a squadron of Rafales!!

In the past the French had flat out refused selling Rafale to the Iraqis. Lets see what will happen with this!