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From: darragh@maths.tcd.ie (Darragh J. Delany)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Iraqi AWACS ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.024958.17317@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 02:49:58 GMT
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From: darragh@maths.tcd.ie (Darragh J. Delany)
In article <1991Feb4.044954.10294@cbnews.att.com> newman@frith.egr.msu.edu (Timothy S Newman) writes:
>Some reports about the planes fleeing Iraq have mentioned that AWACS
>planes are included in those which have landed in Iran.  Anyone
>know how, when, and why Iraq got AWACS?  

Apparently the Iraqis have 2 of these AWACS-like aircraft (or at least
2 are reported to have fled to Iran). The first report on them as far
as I can remember was in Janes in '89 where the first one was identified
as the Baghdad-1, a commercial airliner converted to carry a certain amount
of early warning gear although lacking anywhere near the sophistication of
western AWACS. Allowing for the fact that Iraq sent a lot of it's people 
abroad to train in electronics it would be reasonable to assume they have
managed to fabricate some useful equipment for these aircraft.

Darragh

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