After the Baath Party seized power in 1968, the party leadership paid great attention to modernizing weapons in Iraq, and the anti-aircraft weapon was one of the main questions, in 1970, a committee was formed, headed by Major General Daoud Salman al-Ghalai, and a number of officers concerned with weapons of resistance to aircraft and air defense, and that was under the supervision of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, when he was deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, and this committee developed proposals that served as a basis for developing weapons Resistance to aircraft and air defense, especially in the organizational aspect of air defense and the development of training institutions for the class, methods of development, armament and details, and this resulted in the formation of large numbers of aircraft resistance units and formation headquarters for command and control purposes, and the introduction of modern weapons for service for the first time in the country, which I see rules Establishing an advanced air defense system. In the years from 1968 to 1980, the headquarters formed the following formations and units: