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I wonder if airframes are truly brand new built from scratch or if they are cannibalizing old F-5 airframes.
This Airframe like that and like the one used on the F-5 uses less Titanium than any other Supersonic fighter produced in the past 40 years so unlike Fighters like the F-14 and F-15 that required far more advanced tools and composites there is really nothing that special about this Airframe for Iran not to be able to produce them and feel the need to use +50 year old Airframes in their construction and after 50 years and an 8 year long war most of those Airframes have already lost structural integrity and have hairline crack plus the technology needed to repair such hairline cracks of that grade aluminum alloy to a point where they like new and be flightworthy would require far more advanced tech than being able to produce the Airframe which would automatically mean Iran has the technology to produce them anyways
This is not a car where you can simply patch it up, its a fighter that has to fly at high altitude at supersonic speeds and hairline crack even ground much slower passenger Aircraft not to mention that producing the airframe would be far faster then trying to repair large number of grounded Iranian F-5's