Iraqi Air Force's Longest Airstrike (November 1986)
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- The war between Iran and Iraq included the so-called 'Tanker War' in which both sides attempted to disrupt each other's oil exports. Iraq initiated such attacks and until 1984 it was the only side attacking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. Iran attempted to use shuttle tankers to transport its oil to locations in the southern part of the Gulf and thus keep their customers' tankers out of range of Iraqi aircraft. But in November 1986, Iraqi Air Force launched a bold raid against Larak Island oil terminal. Larak Island is located in the Strait of Hormuz and it was initially out of range of Iraqi aircraft. But Iraqis acquired in-flight refueling pods for their Mirage F.1s and 81st Squadron commander led a two-ship flight supported by three tankers on this very long strike. Was it successful? Find out in the video.
Sources:
- Tom Cooper - Iraqi Mirages: Mirage F.1 in Service with Iraqi Air Force, 1981-2003
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- The New York Times - Iraq Hits Oil Terminal in South
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- Strait of Hormuz - Tanker War
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- The Tanker War Proceedings - May 1988 Vol. 114_5_1,023 (U.S. Naval Institute)
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Mirage F1 is probably my second favorite 3rd Generation fighter airframe, only behind the MiG-23s. Just love the way they look
Yes, very slick and sexy, like an F-1 car, one of my favorites too.
It's my second favorite 3rd gen fighter too. But number one is Phantom :) Thank you for commenting!
@@showtime112well mine is the su-27 flanker
@@arrogleinadtraFlanker is 4th generation by western standards
The f-100 is just something else for me
Absloutley LOVE it when you cover the Iran Iraq war so this has made my saturday.👍👍👍👍
Glad you like it! When the Phantom comes out for DCS, there will definitely be more videos with that topic.
This conflict is very interesting yet there is very little information about it even now. Iran relied heavily on their American built aircraft despite being completely cut off from spare parts by embargoes. But an even stranger problem was completely self-imposed by Iran's mad mullah the Khomeini, who during the islamic revolution, had ordered all the Iranian jet pilots locked up in prison! To their credit, once Khomeini ordered them released, most of the Iranian pilots then went on to fly and fight for Iran with great bravery and skill.
Do you plan to do any thing about the Iranian F14s?@@showtime112
@@robertmaybeth3434 it would transpire years later that Israel covertly supplied Iran with spare parts for equipment that they both used such as the F-4 and Huey helis and i wouldnt be surprised if other countries in the region helped Iran with spare parts for their F-5s (Saudi Arabia,Jordan and Turkey all flew the F-5)
Excellent visuals and Narration!
Good stuff Showtime!
I appreciate your positive feedback!
Incredibly interesting topic. And gorgeous looking Mirage F1. I’m working on the 1/72 scale model of it just now, can’t wait to finish it.
Thanks for the feedback! It's a hobby I hope to come back to someday.
Excellent recreation, very good documentary, thank you very much for your videos, greetings from southern Argentina.
Thank you for appreciating the content!
Great topic! I've heard of the Tanker War but never really know much details about it. I wonder whether Iranian Air Force had attempted to intercept these attacks. If they did, how effective were the interceptions? Keep up the good work!
Me 1 hour after take off: I have to pee!!!!
Showtime112 what a GREAT JOB!
Thank you, I was generally aware of the anti naval warfare in that conflict, but didn't have the dimensiin, the figure, the circumstances of difficulties (i.e. distance and proper avionics). You gave historical depth and visual life to it.
THANK YOU once more.
I am happy to hear that you appreciated the video. There's a lot more to be said about naval warfare in this conflict but it was outside the scope of the video. Hopefully, I'll cover it some more in the future.
Love the music! You seem to have a good feel for finding the right “tone” of music that fits the essence of the content. Kudos to you on all of it.
Thank you for this feedback. A couple of other guys think it's horrible 🤣
@@showtime112 Lol! I say “You do You!” Besides, some peoples’ taste ends at the edge of their mouth. ;)
Another informative and well presented video. I really like the fact that you address less well known events.
I appreciate that, thank you!
Talk about a very informative and well put together video.Mate, that's top-notch.👍
This is a great feedback, thank you!
Some further details of the failed tanker conversion of the Il-76 by the iraquies quoted from the French aeronotical magazine « Le Fana de L’aviation ».
A tank truck was loaded into the plane to deal the fuel for fighters through a flexible pipe and a drogue.
The extra-fuel and it’s vaporized gas was evacuated by the toilets …
This risky arrangement was willing to detonate in flight.
Many thank Sowtime 112 fro this excellent report.
Thank you very much for the feedback and for adding info!
There was actually a tanker version of Il-76 in iraq
Love this channel; miss theRed Storm Rising vids.
Thank you very much for the positive feedback!
OP thanks for making this documentary it was incredibly informative. TIL Iran and Iraq did have aerial refueling after all, for a long time thought only NATO and Russia did it. Iran Iraq war is impressing me as very much a shoe-string war after a certain time! Not even nations flush with OPEC cash can keep a war going on all burners for long.
This war was a long series of start-stop actions and rare offensives, combined with long periods of inactivity. Considering Saddam's extremely limited objectives (he wanted the Shatt Al Arab waterway from Iran) the amount of firepower and lives expended over 8 years, is completely out of proportion to anything Saddam might have realistically hoped to achieve. But having attacked Iran and failed to achieve his objectives in the initial attack, he could not now back down again and hope to stay in power. Saddam's dilemma is reminiscent of German General Mellenthin's quote on the Ostfront c. 1943, "We are now in the position of a man who has seized a wolf by the ears and dare not let him go.”
Iran had more manpower, Iraq had more firepower, and both sides were severely hindered by amateurish leadership no doubt compounded by the self-imposed handicaps by despotic leaders who dared not let their armies get TOO good (lest they inadvertently help bring about their own demise from a coup'). There were several pointless wars in the 20th century but it is hard to think of many of them that were so enormously wasteful of lives and money, for no results whatsoever being achieved, as the Iran-Iraq war.
Thank you for the elaborate comment! Yes, this war was very much shaped by politics of both regimes. It is very much true that dictators can never admit a defeat, they always rather sacrifice a whole bunch of people.
Excellent vid as per usual.
Thank you very much!
Another great informative and interesting video. Thank you 😊
So nice of you, thank you for watching and commenting!
Nice new format . Love it!
Thank you very much for the feedback!
Iraq also launched Exocet from converted Dassault Falcon civilian aircraft.
Yes, if I remember correctly, a Falcon launched the missile that hit USS Stark.
Another great video! Thank you
I waited till now to watch it so my week could start the right way. Amazing video as always, so cool HUD cam effect 💯
Thank you so much for another positive feedback! I like playing with those effects and filters to create footage which is close to historical. I'm not perfectly happy with it but I'm making progress :)
Very good, you're doing aviation aficionados a real service with your videos!
Are you going to treat the Iran-Iraq conflict some more, there's still the story of how Iran managed to keep its F-14 fleet operable despite embargo, and also the episode when Iraqi F-1's shot down F-14's . And that time the Iraqis did an oops and sank the USS Stark with an Exocet fired from a Falcon 50 business jet (wtf?)..
Thank you very much! I will certainly revisit the Iran-Iraq War. I've already done a number of videos about it, including one about Operation Girafe when Mirages succeeded in shooting down some F-14s. We'll have F-4E in DCS World soon so I'll cover some of that type's involvement for sure.
The USS Stark wasn't sunk dude; close, but not quite.
Graet video. An interesting story
Thank you for the positive feedback!
Another great video! Thank you Showtime!
Thank you for appreciating it!
I heard about the so-called "tankers war" during the Iran - Iraq war. But so far I was more conscious about attacks conducted by Pasdarin using high-speed boats, and American attempts to prevent them, as they applied Bell Kiowas. And do not forget about Stark attack
Iran started to attack tankers a little later but they were seen as the 'bad guys' by most of the world so that's where the media attention was. So, it's hardly a surprise that you remember that part much better.
Thanks!
I appreciate another one of your donations, thank you!
During that war, by the orders from Saddam himself, any Iraqi F-1 pilot complete his 12th sortie targeting the Iranian oil Island *Kharg* (which it's very farawy) when he lands he will get a new Mercedes Benz. One of the F-1 pilots he flew his 12th sortie and his dudes was waiting on him to celebrate his new Mercedes but he got shotdown during his way back after he hits the targets. Too many great stories that was a bloody war!
So close 😁 I agree that this war is definitely not explored enough.
Marvelous video! What an interesting yet unknown feat of arms. Bravo!
Thank you very much! There is a number of such achievements which are still pretty unknown.
Hello mate, sorry for this delay because i m working today.
Very interesting report about this raid. ( send you e-mail and pictures). It was impossible for F1EQ5 to takeoff with full load and 3 external tanks full of kero . The MTOW was exceed. So refuelling was necesarry. For info the 2200L " irakian" tank didnt have partition inside. So used for long range or ferry flight. The issue is: a mid fuel level, a wave is generated if plane make hard turns or evasive. So problèm to fly easy. Later this tank was used on french F1CT to allow more weapons under wings( sometimes used on french F1CR). Personnaly F1C-200 used 1 belly tank 1200L. I have worked on it
No need to apologize, your view still counts 😁 Thanks for the info, I actually didn't know that fuel moving inside the tank might cause such issues.
@@showtime112 only the 2200L tank have this issue. Built for long range and give place for several and différent weapons under wings. This configuration is good when you have à Fleet of Tankers Who follow you, in à stand off position, during a raid
Great video as always. Keep it up.
There's never existed any Arabian Gulf anywhere in the world however.
Thank you for the comment. The Gulf is commonly known as the Persian Gulf and I call it that myself. Arabs however seem to call it 'Arabian Gulf' and basically, whatever I say or write, someone will be unhappy :)
Great vid showtime .
Thank you very much!
For all its international impact, the Tanker War remains very undercovered. Learned a bit from this, an ambitious strike.
Thank you for the feedback!
شكرا لك على هذا الفيديو الجميل الحرب الايرانيه العراقيه هي اقوى حرب دمويه بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية قتل بها اكثر من مليون شخص من كلا الجانبين عمي احد شهداء حرب ايران
Very under reported on war as are the african war videos you have done, fantastic stuff. Thanks for the video
Yes, these conflicts should be researched some more. Unfortunately, the nature of political regimes and the current status of the involved countries makes it a bit hard.
Thanks so much for your dedication to telling us about these small wars where so much military equipment gets its real test in battle. Lesser creators would make yet another tired- but clickable- video about Spitfires or Luftwaffe 'wonder weapons'.
Thank you for the feedback! I like to change pace and subject every now and then. But those German 'wonder weapons' are what a channel can make its living from :)
@@showtime112 I won't be mad when you do some 'money making stuff', because you'll do it well. I tipped a few coins in your jar for this one mate ;)
So happy to see my beloved Mirage F1 again in your videos. Awesome work as always!
Thanks, I appreciate your positive feedback!
Thanks
Thank you for watching!
The first iraqui long range attack in the Gulf was in August 1986 against Sirri island, six Mirage F-1 backed by a least one An-12BP as tanker....Two Mirage have 2 250Kg bombs and four with AS-30L missiles, two tankers were destroyed and two with light damage.
The interesting detail was none of the Mirage pilots were iraquis,, the IrAF get foreigners pilots paid in dollars, were at least 23, including two belgians, two pakistanis, six germans, one australian, one from New Zeland and one south african.....
Cooper& Bishop "iran-Iraq War in the air"
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Thank you for the comment and info!
The Mirage F1 is a good looking plane. But my favorite is the Jaguar with its over wing missiles!
On 1983, under the orders of Washington, Saudi Arabia opened the floodgates of petrol, in this way there were no big incident about the supply. At this time we support Saddam Hussein against Iranian regime which was under embargo. The MIRAGE F1 was used for strike missions and they hit the biggest tanker of the world. The EQ-6 version could shoot the AS-30 strike missile with a pod of laser designation too, and the anti radar missile MARTEL.
France, for this sort of strike for increasing the autonomy of the MIRAGE F1 invented the iraki tank, a big tank of 2200 liters what you can put under the fuselage like we can see on this video.
Yes, the alliances in that period were a bit different :) Thank you for adding info!
Those big tanks were definitely used on this mission.
@@jeannezehner9450Salut Jeanne. Showtime112 a oublié de dire que le F1EQ5 ne peut pas décoller avec les pleins internes et 3 réservoir externe plus 2x400 kg bombes. Il a fallu décoller avec les 3/4 de kero et ravito ensuite car la masse maximale MTOW était dépassé
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Faut connaitre l'avion aux petits oignons pour savoir cela.
Effectivement cela fait lourd pour un SNECMA ATAR 9K50 qui décolle sous la chaleur du désert.
you should do a video on the Albania-Yugoslav aircraft incident (1967) or Air battle over Merklín
I'll write it down for a list of possible topics, thanks!
amazing how these 2 forces fought this is first time i saw the video of iraqi airforce in action we know nothing about these conflicts and their dynamics now the question is if iraq was hitting irani's how iraqi ships were traveling as i guess not a single iraqi ship should be allowed to pass by irani
I made a couple other videos about Iraqi Mirages in action, perhaps you missed them. Iraq exported its oil through land pipelines and via other nations. I don't think they had any ships sailing from their small coastline.
@@showtime112 oh ok will check those videos i do not have much info related to iran iraq war and it's dynamics should be interesting to watch more about this conflict. i never expected iraqi airforce so active in this conflict, all i know was irani F14 tomcats were much superior than iraqi airforce fighters and there was no match but this video shed new lights how they were handling the situation, i guess they were the real threat to irani's on sea
@@shahzadaslam384
Iraq before the end of the iran-iraq war, had a mig 29, mig 27, and mig 25, in addition to the mirage, mig 23, mig 21, su 22, and su 25! They ware effective and decisive against the iranians before the war stopped!
Fantastic video from a fantastic channel. How about an episode on Iranian F14 tomcats in action . They scored 160 kills in the iran war . They were so feared that Saddam Hussein said that whoever shot down a Tomcat would get a brand new Mercedes Benz. Approx 40 of these kills were with aim54 phoenix missiles. They also stopped a lot of Iraqi air strikes by simply shooting down an aircraft. Upon which the entire strike package would flee to Iraq.
😢هذه حرب الناقلات التي اندلعت بين العراق وايران في حرب الخليج الاولى
Precisamos de vídeos em português! Sucesso!
Thank you for the feedback! I actually studied Brazilian Portuguese for a while but I don't have enough knowledge to do a proper translation. But if someone volunteers to create subtitles, I will be happy to include them.
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Hvala!
Great video. I remember the hit of the USA frigate Stark by Exocet launched from an iraqi F-1 in 1987. Iraq claimed it was accident.
Thanks! I believe it was an incident.
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Thank you very much!
Simply excellent. One has to remember that France gave shelter to Ayatollah Khomeiny and his politics after the Shah fall was felt as a betrayal. French society had also a bad feeling with Muslim activities in France, Algeria war and so on.
Thank you very much! Countries take certain political approaches which later may seem strange :)
A correction to your words is the Arabian Gulf and not the Persian
Oh, I just love those 'corrective' comments 😁
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Hvala još jednom, Medo!
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Thank you for the comment!
هل طيران العراقي كان يمر عبر الامارات العربيه ويضرب الاسطوال الايراني
In this mission, they were passing the airspace of United Arab Emirates and also Oman.
Ha! Thanks for the history, Showtime! Around November 2006, I was in the Gulf of Oman waiting to get discharged after my 6 year Navy enlistment. Got out in Subic Bay, early 1987 on the way back home. Was wondering if they would extend me under a war powers thing because the US attacked Iran. USS Stark got hit in 1987 doing a similar role as my ship, USS Leahy, I felt for the crew.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
“Iraq was responsible for about two-thirds of attacks on ships during the war.” Yet the US presented this as though Iran was the threat to Gulf shipping. We sent warships into the Gulf to ostensibly protect international shipping against Iran. Iraq was pretty much given a pass. Saddam even attacked a USN frigate with an Exocet, just as a test to see how much he could get away with. He got away with it-no problem. This inspired him to think he could get away with invading Kuwait and that the US would still do nothing.
In order to be successful with their EXOCETS, Iraqui needed Argentine naval Aviators...
Source?
Excellent video! Explaining a kind of "forgotten war" that I may imagine how much environmental damage created to the Persia Gulf. By the way, Mirage F1 is the most beatiful Mirage at all. Thanks again Showtime!
Thank you very much for appreciating the content!
The Iraqi army was the fourth army in the world, a striking force on land, sea and air. Its leaders and officers of the former army were veterans and trained, but assassinations and prisons destroyed the former army.
Dibba al-fujariah is in UAE & not in Oman.
it is not the exact details but you are so close to real
I am saying that because I now the exact details and every second of this mission
Thank you for the feedback! Were you somehow involved with this mission?
I will tell you some details , there was 12 Mirage F1 and 1 MiG 25 in this mission the first 6 Mirage job is feed the other 6 Mirage and then 3 Mirage feed the last 3 Mirage to be able to reach the target
what else : you are right about the low Altitude all the way to the target but never entered the airspace of Saudi Arabia or the Emirates ,The mission of the MIG 25 plane is to be bait for F-14 planes Which monitors the Gulf @@showtime112
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2x400kg dumb bombs?
Not exactly shock 'n' awe.
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Thank you for the comment!
Showtime112.
Iraq Also Used Super Etendard Fighters With Exocet Missiles
Yes, some were leased by France and they apparently launched quite a few Exocets.
Informative but stop with the horrible music. It's not necessary.
As I replied to another similar comment, It's not what I listen to at home but I think it works more than fine here.
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EXCELLENT - CONGRATULATIONS, as usual. Very interesting historical and technical information including the air refueling system D-7 and the beatiful MIrage F1, which is one of the most attractive Dassault design. Take care and keep on woriking. THANKS.
I'm happy to hear you liked this one as well. Thank you once more!
the interesting part is that those F-1's belong to Iranian air force.
Iran didn't have the F-1 and they fly Iraqi flags. I don't understand that comment.
During Desert Storm, a bunch of these Mirages were flown to Iran where they were kept and operated by the IRIAF.
@@showtime112 Ah, that's what it meant. I only thought about the time of the Iran/Iraq war.
@@Cheggivaraand so many migs , sukhui and .....as a kid i witnessed one of them landed on a street next my house and they just moved it to the airforce base in my city.also the story of first flight of the F-1 is so interesting that colonel Naghdibeyk flew it for the first time without having any check list ,mirage helmet and other required things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrooz_NaqdiBeyk
@@showtime112en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrooz_NaqdiBeyk
Missile damages ship in 1981.
Narrator "This was the first successful use of the Exocet missile, but it remained unknown to the public for the next 15 years."
You mean the incident remained unknown? Or the missile remained unknown?
Because by May of 1982, everyone on the planet (with the possible exception of a tribe of 23 primitives in the middle of a jungle in New Guinea) had heard enough about the Exocet to last a lifetime.
Of course I mean the incident remained unknown. I never thought someone might understand that I was suggesting Exocet missile remained unknown to the public until mid 1990s.
This explains why Houthis keep shooting missiles at ships and why Iran doubled down on anti-ship missiles. They really learned from this war and copied some of Iraq's own tactics.
لطفا از ماجرای شکار 4 فروند میگ 23 عراقی به وسیله یک فروند اف14ایران که تنها با شلیک یک تیر موشک فونیکس هر چهار فروندشان را سرنگون کرد فیلم بساز
That is derided by all true aviation professionals as being pure bullshit propaganda by Iran, and something that nobody else on the planet other than Iranians would be gullible enough to believe.
Great video . . . . buuuuut . . . The music is awful!!!!
It's not what I usually listen to but classic rock really wouldn't work here 😁
lol iraqi air force
I have watched many episodes of yours. Initially I thought you were right.
But you r like BBC, selective.
Really? So, who am I selecting here?
@@showtime112 there are several examples. I give one.
Indian air force provided reckage of GE engine and AM air to air missile, also, provided radar images of F16 to prove that f16 was shot down.
On the otherhand, pakistan first said that two pilots have been captured.
Later he denied and changed its statement and said that only one pilot was captured and that was indian and no f16 was shot down.
It was against US reputation that a Russian fighter shot a US fighter, so he also gave statement that number all f16s given to pakistan were the same, none short.
@@RajeevSingh-kq8flYou know, there's a whole bunch of Indians and Pakistanis who think I'm biased to the other side. I stopped worrying about that. The conflict is not truly over and everybody must agree with them 100 percent, whoever doesn't - he is the enemy. I can relate to that kind of thinking because I've experienced it a long time ago.
What is being biased?
After an incident, both sides give official statements. Also, many times there are reliable evidences to support the statements.
Now biased means, if the fact and evidence are there.
Sometimes, news is propagated based on facts and evidences ignoring official statements.
On the other hand, sometimes, news is propagated on official statements ignoring facts and evidences.
@@RajeevSingh-kq8flidiot you are . .
The whole show is a big lie. The Persian/Arabic Gulf is not exclusive. If you read history, we have one Persian Gulf.
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