Iraqi Air Defence Command

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| unit_name = Iraqi Air Defence Command

| native_name = قيادة الدفاع الجوي العراقي

| image = Iraqi Air Defence Command Emblem.svg

| caption = Emblem of the Air Defence

| start_date = {{start date and age|df=y|1993|2|1}}

| country = {{Flag|Iraq}}

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| type = Air Defence

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| size = 24,000 personnel (2023){{cite web |title=Defense Manpower Data Center- Monthly Strength Summary active duty Iraq|url=https://dwp.dmdc.osd.mil/dwp/api/download?fileName=ms0_2307.pdf&groupName=milTop |work=Defense Manpower Data Center |access-date=15 September 2023 }}

| command_structure = Iraqi Armed Forces

| garrison = Baghdad

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• Invasion of Kuwait
• Gulf War
• 1991 uprisings in Iraq
• Iraqi no-fly zones
• Iraq War
• War against the Islamic State
• Syrian Civil War

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| commander1 = Lt. Gen. Muhannad Ghalib al-Asadi

| commander1_label = Current commander

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The Iraqi Air Defence Command ({{Langx|ar|قيادة الدفاع الجوي العراقي|translit=Qiyad al-Difaa' al-Jawiya al-Iraqi}}) is one of the branches of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It was established on February 1, 1993. It is responsible for the protection of Iraqi airspace. Before 1993 a considerable anti-aircraft gun and missile force had been built up, but not under a separate command. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the dissolution of all Iraqi Armed Forces it was reformed in 2011. The current commander is Lt. Gen. Muhannad Ghalib al-Asadi.{{cite web|url=https://ina.iq/ar/security/225119--.html|title=قائد الدفاع الجوي يعلن قرب وصول أنظمة تسليحية حديثة|publisher=Iraqi News Agency}}

Iraqi air defence began with the purchase of 20-mm and 40-mm anti-aircraft guns for the Iraqi Army, and each of its divisions had an anti-aircraft battalion by the 1950s.See {{cite web|title=National Intelligence Survey Iraq Ground Forces |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/0001252340}} Thereafter the force saw continual growth. But after the Israelis destroyed the atomic reactor at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center in 1981 through the air raid Operation Opera, the defences were extensively redesigned. A network of radars, surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns were installed, centered on the strategic and industrial facilities of Baghdad.

In 1988 the Air Defence Command had about 10,000 personnel.Helen Chapin Metz, ed. Iraq: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1988.

After the Gulf War of 1991, the force became a separate service in 1993.