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I quite agree and let's not forget that the russians also deployed su-25 and tu-95 which was its first combat missions lol.

Problemthat Iran has is the threat it faces I. E Israel who seem to do whatever they want in the middle east. So air defence both ground and air assets are key aircraft for ground attack they already have aircraft that can fulfill that role. Ideally they would replace their aging mig-29 with mig-35 and F-14 with su-30 (at least) along with their S-300 this would likely form a deterrence I also think that mig-31 would also be useful for Iran especially if Russia ever developed an export of the hypersonic dagger missile of course now f-35 they would have to at ways of combating it through the use of radar then guide fighters towards it. 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?

Well said and put but would Iran Russia and China have the balls to do it?

The US destroyed all of the F-14 spare parts so Iran has no way to keep those flying. The F-5s are still in use so they can get those on the black market. Anything from the days of the Sha are not combat worthy in these times. Iran needs to place billions of orders from us so they can reconstitute a credible military deterrent.

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

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

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.

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.

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.  

Yes now that Trump decided that. But before russians respected the deals made by the 5+1 group.

Now even europeans have sold some 30 planes last week to them. Russia should give to Iran anything they need, not only military equipment.


They could also buy firectly to russian airforce mig-29 Smt as they already fly mig-29 from Iraq air force.

Not going to hold my breath that we will see this in proper production more likely this will be a one off model nothing more. More money wasted on what's likely going to be a copy of a current aircraft they already have most likely a usa aircraft. But let's wait and see.


https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/iran-will-unveil-new-domestically-made-fighter-jet-mod/

Iran if it could ideally needs to get su-30 and su-34 upgrade it's su-25 & su-24 either upgrade it's mig-29 to smt or buy new smt or mig-35. They can then get rid of mirage, F-14, F-4. Then keep the j-7, su-22, as for the F-5 if they can upgrade it like they did with their homegrown version it could still be capable or replace it with mig-35. Their homegrown cobra helicopter production seems dead they could just opt for a mix of mi-35, mi-28, and get rights to produce the Ansat 2RC all these along with their UCAV should produce a capable force. Problem sanctions and money. But Iran needs to stop wasting cash on silly one off production models instead save the cash and if there is a chance to buy from another country they then have the cash to buy.

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

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

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

sorry, too busy, never get the time,

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

Another F-5 copy??? They have done two already and even then only a handful of each this will likely be the same situation. Complete waste of money and time.

Iran has revealed what it claims is a new domestically-produced fighter jet at a ceremony in Tehran.

On Tuesday, Iranian state television screened images of President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the "Kowsar" fighter aircraft, according to Tasnim News Agency.

Designed and manufactured solely by Iranian military experts, the Kowsar is described as a fourth-generation fighter jet, which classifies it among military fighters in service from approximately 1980 to the present day.

By contrast, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and China's Chengdu J-20 are considered fifth generation fighters because of their enhanced stealth abilities and computational power.

Tasnim, citing the state television report, said Iran's new jet had already been through successful test flights and would soon be ready to carry out shorter distance aerial support missions.


The aircraft was unveiled ahead of Iran's National Day of Defense Industry, which is to be held Wednesday. Iran's military had a 2017 budget of $14.1 billion, or 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), according to figures supplied by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

The country has developed a domestic arms industry as international sanctions have prevented it from importing weapons.

The jet's arrival had already been foreshadowed by comments from Defence Minister Amir Hatami on Saturday, who said Iran's military had mounted a locally-built defensive weapons system on one of its warships for the first time.

"Our top priority has been development of our missile program. We are in a good position in this field, but we need to develop it," Fars News Agency quoted Hatami as saying.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/21/irans-new-kowsar-fighter-jet-unveiled-by-rouhani.html

yavar wrote:

I don't understand farsi language, but it seems this F-5F Kowsar is fully domestically new build plane. I don't know, why they rename it from Azaraksh to Kowsar. Iran already produced all parts of F-5 jets, when they rebuild old damaged F-5s into Saegeh fighters. Production of F-5 is logical choice for Iran. It is simple and reliable plane. Iran already produce whole J85 engine domestically. They also produce entire body and wings. They also produce all sub systems, because they have to produce them for spare parts. Now we could see, that Iran produce Russian K-36 ejection seats, most probably Russia give them lycence to produce them and this new F-5 is equipped with K-36 ejection seats. More interesting is new electrinics in the plane, which is also produced in Iran.



Some of those new components like HUD, MFDs, RWRs, were tested in this Azaraksh prototype. Iranian electronic industry is capable to produce all those new digital electronic blocks as well as radar. They said, that Kowsar have miltirole radar with air to air, air to ground and air to sea modes. Did they developed it themselves or they got help from Russia. Small enough radar could be Kopyo radar used in Indian MiG-21BISON jets with 75 km range or even more modern PESA radar Osa, made for MiG-29UBT with range of 85 km. Kopyo radar is made for export from the beginning, so i don't see a problem for Russia to give Iran this radar to produce them domestically. They also talk about weapon control computers, ballistic computers for precission attacks, INS/GPS blocks and digital data link networking. Sounds like SVP-24 complex from Gefest. After all, Iran have Su-24M jets and they overhaul and upgrade them domestically to integrate iranian armament on them. Who knows, maybe Gefest work with Iranians to upgrade their Su-24M jets. Interesting is, that those capabilities in Iran come out now, after Russia start their intervention in Syria and SVP-24 become well battle proven complex. We could also see new iranian domesting targeting pods and weapons on their Su-22 jets.

For Iran it is most important to get new build jets produced fully domestically, what mean they are immune on any sanctions. Although F-5 is old design, new radar, FCS complex similar to SVP-24 and new targeting pod could made it still very dangerous strike plane. With new air to air missiles like R-77, it could be still usefull fighter inside IADS.

It's not a competent airframe, nor engine and cannot have enough operational radius or payload.  Yet I agree with GarryB, this is not needed in recent wars. Airplanes become more and more mobile missile carriers than anything else.

Back at its home in the US the F-5E continues to be upgraded for aggressor squadron use so someone apart from Iran thinks this aircraft has potential. The timing of this article from a week ago is uncanny and this is its last sentence

"But regardless of the business case surrounding commercial adversary support services, TacAir's F-5s are gorgeous and they will be truly impressive machines once their upgrades are complete."

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22957/refurbished-tacair-aggressor-f-5-photographed-over-st-augustine-florida

A 2 seater version of it means it's multirole, like the Israeli F-16D/Is, Iraqi F-16IQs & UAE's F-16E/Fs:
http://israeli-weapons.com/weapons/aircraft/f-16/F-16.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon_variants#F-16I_Sufa
https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Iraq-Seeks-F-16-Fighters-05057/?date_sent=2012-03-16+14%3A16%3A34
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon_variants#F-16E/F_Block_60

I wonder how many will be procured. In the near future, China & Russia may disregard sanctions all together & sell them Su-30s, J-10s, &/ JF-17s: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-02/18/content_23529890.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC/PAC_JF-17_Thunder#Potential_operators

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