Iran-Iraq 1980 terrain IrAF bases ID

[regula50 47]

HI:

 

I have installed this terrain addon for a future campaign about the Iran-Iraq war(1980 to 1988)in several parts.

Terrain is nice and bases ID for the IRIAF side are all OK and very clear.

 

The problem is the IrAF and his bases. IrAF bases had sometimes several different names in published sources.

I have finded this bases in the terrain and his ID:

(Left name of the base- right name in the terrain addon)

 

al-Bakr AB(Balad SE AB: al-Bakr AB

Ali Bin Aboub Talib AB: Talil AB

Firnas AB: Mosul AB(see note *)

Hannaniyah AB: Habbaniyah AB

Muthenna AB(Baghdad-Muthenna AB): Muthena AB

Rasheed AB: Rasheed AB

Qalat Sikar AB: Qal'at Sikar AB

Shaykha Mazar AB(Salman Pak): Shayka Mazhar AB

 

* In Mosul area they are two bases: al-Gayyar AB and Firnas AB

 

They are eight important bases and I dont know wich are the names in the terrain addon:

 

Al-hurriyah AB (Base of MiG-21(5th Sqn)and MiG-23s. Several times bombed)(This base is in Kirkuk area)

Abu ubalda AB (Base of MiG-23BN of the 29th and 49th Sqn)

Al-wihda AB(Shoaibah AB) (base of the IrAF 1th Sqn(FRS)and all V-VS MiG-25R/PD/RB and his cover of 36 MiG-21MF and MiG-23MS). Base of Mirage F.1EQ in times of Tankers war.

al-Fatah AB

Al-Gayyar AB (MiG-21MF base)(Mosul area)

Qayyarah West AB (Main base of the Mirage F.1EQs)(MiG-23ML)

Saddam AB(al-Qayyarah West) (Initial base of all Mirage F.1EQ, new base still under construction in 1980)

Ubaydah Bin Al-jarrah AB(al-Jarrah AB)(Su-20/22,MiG-21 and MiG-23 base)(Southern Iraq)

 

THanks

[regula50 47]

Finded Al-wihda AB(Shoaibah AB)or Shaibah AB. In the terrain addon is Basra airport.

al-Taqaddum is Tammuz AB near Habbaniya, base of the MiG-29 of the 6th Sqn in the times of Desert Storm.

 

But now I dont find TFB.8 Khatami AB, the base of the IRIAF F-14A Tomcat(81TFS and 82TFS).

Edited May 23, 2014 by regula50

[+Menrva 4,202]

Hi regula50. I'm reworking the terrain as part of a major project for the Iran/Iraq war. Many of the targets are placed in wrong coordinates, hence why I wanted to enhance it.

 

The info you found is useful, the fact that you found different names is because the US military changed the names of many Iraqi airfields after they conquered them in the invasion of 2003. I'm planning to add as many relevant airports as possible with their correct names according to their years, but the project is still far from completion.