Iraqi Pilots Fly Night Missions

Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq.
BAGHDAD (Dec. 8, 2008) — The Iraqi Air Force conducted its first rotary-wing night mission since 2003 in the skies over Baghdad, Dec. 3. Two Iraqi crews, using night vision equipment, flew their Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters outside the air base at Taji. The first Iraqi night vision goggle sortie occurred [...]

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