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d_taddei2 wrote:Why is Iran struggling to produce aircraft such as HESA Saeqeh and toophan helicopters? ??
Lack of parts????? I feel Irans aircraft programmes are just paper planes and no real aviation industry exists. They desperately need new aircraft and nothing seems to be materialising from foreign countries due to sanctions.

GarryB wrote:Or perhaps they have noticed that even an old aircraft like the Su-24 can be an effective weapon in combat with a few specific upgrades that don't make it more expensive to use than a newer aircraft.

There is no point in upgrading an old aircraft to use brand new expensive weapons when old cheap weapons and a delivery system upgrade can be just as good.

Perhaps a case of Iran noticing that cheap old Russian planes with relatively cheap avionics upgrades can match western guided weapons performance, but using cheap dumb old bombs...

But with sanctions in place nothing can happen.

GarryB wrote:

But with sanctions in place nothing can happen.

I know it sounds silly, but I think the worst case for Iran is if the agreement holds...

Right now EU companies are pulling out of Iran because they fear getting sanctioned from the much larger more profitable market of the US... so in effect Iran is getting sanctioned but is also limited by the agreement not to develop nuclear weapons.

The US gets Iran to abide by the agreement it no longer is bound by and can keep its sanctions on Iran, while Iran not developing nukes.

I would say tear up the old agreement and say the US can impose sanctions on Iran, bur Russia and China can say that Iran kept up their end of the bargain, it was the US and EU that fucked everything up, so we (Russia and China) will not respect any previous sanction imposed on Iran internationally and we will sell them anything they want and trade with them too.

I think Israel would shit itself and the US would come running back to the table for talks... and Iran can tell them to go screw themselves because it does not trust a word the US says anymore... why would anyone?

George1 wrote:why not a Russian-Iran deal for lets say 50 MiG-35s??

Isos wrote:
They don't have the money and russia is respecting the international sanctions . They didn't even wanted to sell s-300 which was allowed.

Iran is more likly to buy su-30 which has longer range for their big country and is a dual seat which is a tradition for iran to buy two seats fighters.

Vladimir79 wrote:

Isos wrote:
They don't have the money and russia is respecting the international sanctions . They didn't even wanted to sell s-300 which was allowed.

Iran is more likly to buy su-30 which has longer range for their big country and is a dual seat which is a tradition for iran to buy two seats fighters.

The Iran Deal is dead, there is nothing left to respect.  

JohninMK wrote:More on the Su-22


Iran Military
‏ @Iran_Military
10h10 hours ago

Resurrected Striker: IRGC Su-22 fighters now equipped with new weapon systems including: Yasin sophisticated precision glide bomb, Simorgh cluster bomb, Bina laser-guided missile, a newly-developed targeting pod, and R-60 infrared homing A2A missile.

George1 wrote:@yavar can you give us iranian fighters numbers in service by type?

yavar wrote:Iran made Kowsar Fighter Jet 4th gen avionics ایران ساخت جنگنده اویونیک نسل چهار کوثر