Baghdad-1 (adnan-1)

[Iranian F-14A]

Just going to ask if anyone had any pics or drawings of the Iraqi IL-76MD Baghdad-1 (Adnan-1) AEW aircraft.These had French Thomson-CSF Tigre radar mounted in the lower tail,where the cargo ramp is located on the standard Candids.Only 2 were modified and then they decided to go with the Mainstay configuration for the later models.As far as I know,only one is operational,with the Iranian Air Force after it flew there in the '91 Gulf War.I did a profile of one,but just need to touch a few things up,get the right colors(or at least close),that sort of thing.

                                                                       Thanks in advance for any help
                                                                                      Joe

[Jennings]

There is limited coverage of this in the Aerofax Il-76 book.  I doubt they flew very much, and more that they were very, if at all, effective.

J

[Iranian F-14A]

Yes,the ramp mounted radar wasn't too effective in the AWACS role,and from what I remember,they had little if any look-down capability.By the way,I have that book.One of the better Aerofax titles in my opinion as far as covering all the models,variants and customers of the Candid.

[Scooterman]

The WAPJ or IAPR or whatever it is has a line drawing.  If I can get my scanner up, I'll post it.

[Archibald]

Once again, France sold its best technomogy to saddam... I'm surprise we never sold him some AN-52 tactical nukes for its F-1EQ