Great idea
Vietnamese allegedly sold Iran f5 and could lease pilots to iraq
While the Vietnamese did quite well (considering their forces and the overall circumstances) against the USAF over Vietnam it is unclear to me how well they would do flying strike missions against the Iranians.
My guess is the presence of veteran North Vietnamese pilots in the Iraqi Air Force may cause the Iranains to de emphaize flying deep strike missions against Iraq but not much else changes. Edit to add: Perhaps the Vietnamese also provide ground crews, GCI radar operators, SAM crews etc so they can more or less replicate the air defence system they used against the Americans ?
While some of the (former) South Vietnamese pilots would have had experience flying CAS type missions over South Vietnam, I doubt many of them would have had much experience flying air to air missions. They also would have needed to be trained to fly the avalaible Iraqi air craft.
Maybe in the long run the Vietnamese pilots can ramp up their skills to the point where they could fly deep strike missions against the Iranians but it is unclear to me who would train them how to do this ?
It also occurs to me that North Korea might be interested in having an opportunity for their pilots to practice flying against forces equipped with modern American made equipment. If North Korea acquired the SU24 and had pilots who had experience flying them against Iran, things might get interesting later on
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