We are speaking on the possiblity of kowsar action role in Air to Air missions,howerver it need modification in fuslege structure same as what happened in gripen upgrading project, kowsar can carry six Air to Air missile and keeping fuel tank also.
Optimizing the kowsar performance not very...
It is possible
Some modification needed to install two of fakour near center of belly and other two near rear landing gear.
But you are right about the fakour weight may be iran made r-73, r-27 or AIM 120 can install more easily but that does not change the item.
Kowsar can act as good Air to...
There are some reason that compatible with your idea:
1- Deleting V-type tail as was in Saeqeh and choosing single tail in kowsar for less drag may be has choosed Air2Air role for kowsar and CAS and training are secondaries.
2- The Fakour-90 Air2Air missile obtained to install on all planform...
Mass production of kowsar needed solution of many problems in Iran doctorine such as feeling air power as important need firstly, developing Avionics and engine, believing good funding to air force and paying correctly, collecting experts and so on.
This is a first step and economic one...
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It is clear that mass production of a product,make the product more economical for producer and consumer,but do you have any reason that Iran can not mass produce Qaher?
I emphasised on comparison of Qaher and f5 not to other fighter such f15 or f22,but of course scaling up Qaher to f15 s...
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Just looking at qaher platform and it's probably future development such as re-design of wing totally and vertical stablizers and increasing air-inlet cross section and scaling up it's platform for more powerful engines like j79,rd33,rd93 ,...and ....
Seems it is a well chosen platform not...