Iraqi errors report - Part 2

[Marcello]

Formation 386:R/G SP-ATGM Pl
Formation 297: 3 SP ATGM
Formation 185: SP-ATGM Pl

Should have four units instead of three. As far I can gather from the “The Iraqi Army: Organization and Tactics” four SP-ATGM per platoon were the norm.
Also formation 185 should get a 4/2003 cutoff.


Units 159-160: MiG-29A
They should be deleted.
None would have been really available for tactical ground attack missions, because:
1)MIG-29A was an air to air version with only limited, dumb bombs only, strike capabilities
2)There were few of them at hand and those were earmarked for air defence.
3)There were several others dedicated strike planes available for ground attack.
4)Serviceability was poor, between 1991 and 2003 the MIG-23/25 did most of the air to air work as they were much easier to keep in service for the iraqi logistics. By accounts in 2003 only a couple of MIG-29s were still barely flyable. No way they would have been wasted for tactical strikes.

Source Acig.org.


Formation 141: Bombers
Final availability date of this formation should be restricted to 4/2003
Most of the planes that might qualify as “level bombers” in the game were destroyed or otherwise eliminated during the Gulf War.
1)SU-24s, with only one exception, were destroyed or defected to Iran during the Gulf War.
2)TU-22s were already out of active service during the Gulf War and were all destroyed on the ground by coalition bombing.

Only a single TU-16 was left in flyable condition betweeen the Gulf War and OIF.

Source Acig.org.

Unit 190: PC-7
It should be deleted. It is not suitable as level bomber.