Within one week? Who is going to fly them? Russian pilots?
I have a feeling the vast majority of Sadaam’s air force officers were Sunnis.
Good point! Probably Russian Pilots at first. Kind of like Syria.
Su-25s with Russian “volunteers” a la Chennault’s AVG.
Iraq’s military has a long history of wielding Russian weapons, MiGs, AK rifles, and the Iraqi tanks are all Russian Soviet inventions. In fact, if Saddam hadn’t been a secular opposition to Iran, we would have stayed hostile to him due to his Soviet alliance.