There are many reasons why they do not buy the Flanker at the moment.

The first reason is that they see themselves at an actual risk of being attacked at least since OIF. How many spare parts for your current planes, tanks, and helicopters. Flankers delivered in 2007 will not help them if they are attacked in 2005.

The next reason is that most poeple believe that he IrIAF would have money to spent, but that is not that true. The air Force is stll the less trusted part of the armed forces in Iraq. Much money is going ti the IRCG airforce instead.

The third reason is the fact that the IRIAF seems to dislike russian systems. I remember that one of their generals said that they would buy the F-15E if they could.

and a larger version

Well, today I spent some more time on my first livery and I must say the result is not so embarissing anymore. Comments welcome.

Well forgive me for posting this, but that is my first every try at designing a livery. Many thanks to Bmused for giving me his template. I´m really ashamed to post it, but I promised.

I did remain in service but the whole fleet was checked if the happened for a special reason.

For example.

In such cases my military background takes over. A airforce would ground it whole fleet of a type if one happens to have such an accident.