Yeah even there some book starting with wellington
It's written there that some American general even suggested IA to look up at quality of officers being trained as in Iraq the Indian trained officers didn't perform well
That what I read through some open source
Nothing to do with IA training , also provide the source for your info
I shall provide mine about experience of air Marshall Philip Rajkumar training iraqis in 80s. His experience is on bharat rakshak forum , you can easily Google it
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At that time he was a mig 21 pilot and instructor along with a test pilot ( he also flew a Iraqi F 7 , the chink copy of mig 21 since Chinese too were providing arms to them and the Iraqi officer asked him to test the planes since he was a test pilot .
So when he went to iraq , he was there in al Walid air base I guess , on a 2 year tenure , they had only 1 month to train a new batch of pilots from scratch on mig 21 .due to ongoing war , since al Waleed was on Iraqis western border it was out of reach of iranian airforce, still atleast one massive air attack was mounted by their phantoms with many jets destroyed on ground and 0 Irani losses.
These bases were huge and had Iraqi bomber fleet of tu 22 and Mirage f 1 some of which too were destroyed in taht attack
Well back to training.
Air marshall wrote that the Iraqi pilots had poor grasp of English , and the instructions and instrument pannel was in Russian .
The only languge they understood was french thus some pilots of the team who were well versed imparted training in french including AM Rajkumar
Thus he was teching iraqi pilots about mig 21 a Soviet plane in french as an Indian pilot.
Also one month of training is very less anyway , from there they were directly sent to front line.
Air Marshall himself castes doubt about howmuch they learnt in just 1 month .
Anyway he was not given a single day extra before new batch arrived
He particularly wrote that since the sorrounding was plain desert , he and his student one lieutenant of Iraqi airforce were night flying a mig 21 , and due to some technical snag the throttle was stuck ،the Iraqi studnet asked many times to eject each time rajkuamr rejected and said they would not eject until he said so۔
He got the throttle to world again and landed the plane even when Al waleed airbase had better visibility at night than the airbase he flew from in india۔
He saved a Iraqi plane and that pilots life۔
He was even commended for it in written by Iraqi airchief. and saddam himself gifted each foreign pilot good amount of money and a watch when he visited al waleed
All in all the iraqis had poor grasp on English and were not the brightest on the block anyway , also they were also always quite fearful .