Posted on 08/18/2015 4:19:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Iran's Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan on Tuesday gave a run-down of the army's upcoming military buildup, and revealed that a new fighter jet announced in February has been delivered to the Iranian Air Force.
Dehqan said the domestic double-cockpit supersonic Saeqeh 2 jets - whose name means "Thunderbolt" - have been deployed, reports the semi-official Fars News Agency.
The jet, unveiled in February, is meant to be capable of tracing American and Israeli fighter jets according to the paper, which cited a senior Air Force commander Col. Houshang Monfaredzadeh saying as much back in February.
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But give the Russians their due. They deliver. The USA delays.
Maybe you should go post in Russia then, since we aren't up to your standards.
These are the F-5 with luan plywood skin.
“We?” What? You’re the one delaying state of the art aircraft already paid for? I didn’t know you worked for the Pentagon or the State Department, Humble. That explains everything.
Ummm, those are not Russian planes.
Those are modified Northrop T-38 / F-5 fighters.
The F-5 was designed in the late 50’s and first flew in 1962. The design is over 50 years old.
IAF F-15 and F-16 bait.
I’m curious. Why did they switch over to a twin tail — is it strictly cosmetic?
Ali Khamenei ordered the change in one of his Friday sermons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YF-17
Northrup too made a twin tail version on its way to the FA18 Hornet which grew out of the F-5.
And the Israeli Air Force says “bring ‘em up, we need the practice”
Thanks for the info. I thought the Russians were giving them something of real value.
For real? This’ll be the reverse of the crusade where all the faithful followed a ‘holy goose’ to Istanbul and got wiped. The goose was probably more intelligent than Khameini.
Interesting. Thanks!
Pull!
So why relable it an S-300? To con the rube ayatollahs?
Anytime. Its fascinating sometimes tracing aircraft lineage.
Jet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Saeqeh
The S-300 is the SAM system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_(missile)
And there it is. My guess is the Israeli pilots could go up in P51s against the ragheads, and still win. Not really, but you get the point.
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