Perhaps the most promising Iraqi project related to developing an anti-AWACS capability was launched in 1998, when the MIC and the IrAF decided to modify one of the surviving MiG-25RB reconnaissance/strike-fighters through the installation of a Fantasmagoria anti-radiation targeting pod and Kh-58 anti-radiation missiles. For unknown reasons, the work never proceeded beyond stripping down the aircraft in question. Details about its serial remain unknown, but this reconstruction shows one of the last two MiG-25RBs delivered to Iraq, as it would probably have looked once ready and equipped with an underwing hardpoint from a MiG-25PD interceptor, carrying the APU-58 launch rail necessary for deployment of the Kh-58 missile. It is likely that the installation of the Fantasmagoria would have required the installation of additional aerials on the nose, but exact details of these remain unknown. (Artwork by Tom Cooper)