VEVAK
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So if this is the case, does IRGC already work on its own fighter concept?
Maybe its the budget of the IRGC what keeps it more innovative than Irans Air force?
It is NOT the budget! It's the mentality! IRGC Aerospace forces that at 1st started out from being artillery forces started from day one with the mentality of 1st reverse engineering the missiles and quickly enhancing on them both solid and liquid! So in the 80's when they would go and beg to by buy 20 missiles here 20 missiles there a handful of them were strictly for reverse engineering....
And any raw material that wasn't being produced in the country they would go 1st try to buy and slowly try to figure out how it was produce and slowly invest in it's production if they needed potassium or sodium nitrate or aluminum or magnesium powder or anything else that wasn't being produced or wasn't being produced in enough quantities and it wasn't easy and it took time!
The Air Force focused on individual spare parts of the aircrafts inside it's own fleet and they didn't care how the alloys were produced nor showed any interest in investing resources towards it nor did they care about coming up with their own designs using different more accessible allows to perfect their design capability
Air Force would go do absurd things like attach a cockpit to the tail of an Aircraft to perfect a reverse engineered ejection seats when they hadn't even build vacuumed oven presses to build airframes and rather that just using rails on the ground assisted by rockets that would have achieved even greater speeds at fraction of the price they do something like attach a cockpit to the tail of passenger jet so the notion that they didn't have money or resources is just not true!
Iranian government DOES NOT micro manage how the Air Force chooses to budget it's resources! And if any organization in Iran has access to find unused mines it's the Air Force and there are plenty of them and it's not like the Iranian government is going to come and tell them no you can't mine and produce your own Ti using your own budget or that your not allowed to perfect your Design capability using different alloys!
Some may say it show the difference in amount of resources they have access to
Like what?? Do you think if the Air Force wanted to invest in Ti production using an unused Ti mine the government would say no?