Who will maintain them?
Not the Iraqi’s.
The reason they fly russian helicopters is that they cannot handle the maintenance load of the Black Hawks, 47’s and 53’s.
Someone is inline for a massive advisor/tech support contract.
The Iraqis fly US, French, and Russian helos.
And the only reason they have Russian Mi-17s is because the US pushed them to buy them.
The reason MNSTC-I pushed the Iraqis to buy Mi-17s is because Iraq has 900 trained Mi-17 pilots/flight engineers.
[My source for that detail is Major Tony Sidoti - former MNSTC-I CAFTT. He also said they had to talk them out of buying Blackhawks. IMoD has an adversion to “Russian Junk”.]
Iraqi MoI is currently looking at buying Blackhawks.