109th Squadron (Iraq)

109th Attack Squadron Iraq Air Force Conduct Maintenance on SU-25 Jets DVIDS7029641.jpg Su-25 of the 109th Squadron in 2022 1978-2003Sipos Cooper 2022 53,X2015-current Iraq Iraqi Air Force Ground attack Al Rasheed Air Base Base 100px Fin Flash Sukhoi Su-25 The 109th Attack Squadron is an Iraqi Air Force ground-attack squadron. It operates the Sukhoi Su-25 from Al Rasheed Air Base.AirForces Monthly May 2015 Key Publishing Ltd Stamford, Lincolnshire, England 26 Twentieth century No. 109 Squadron was established in 1978.Sipos Cooper 2022 53 It was equipped with Sukhoi Su-22s,Sipos Cooper 2022 30 and was based at Wahda AB near Basra. No. 109 Squadron's pilots became the first in Iraq to receive dedicated training for anti-ship attacks.Sipos Cooper 2022 49 The squadron participated in the three waves of Iraqi air strikes on Iran on the first day of the Iran-Iraq War. It did not lose any aircraft on that day.Sipos Cooper 2022 59,63,66 Twenty-first century On 2 April 2015, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence confirmed that the 109th Attack Squadron had been formed at Rasheed Air Base to operate the Sukhoi Su-25s the country received from Russia and Iran. The first of these aircraft had arrived in Iraq on 28 June 2014.Delalande 2016 24 References Notes Bibliography Delalande Arnaud Iraqi Air Power Reborn: The Iraqi air arms since 2004 2016 Harpia Publishing Houston 978-0-9854554-7-7 Sipos Milos Cooper Tom Wings of Iraq, Volume 2: The Iraqi Air Force, 1970-1980 2022 Helion & Company Publishing Warwick, UK 978-1-914377-17-4 Further reading Iraqi Fighters: 1953-2003: Camouflage and markings by Ahmad Sadik and Tom Cooper, published in 2008 by Harpia Publishing, 978-0-6152141-4-6 109th Squadron Category:Military units and formations established in 2015