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[Mithridates]

 

[Mithridates]

another rare and impressive story of and incident that an IRIAA ah-1j downs an iraqi mig-21 during iran-iraq war:

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for non farsi speakers:
during valfair-8 an iranian ah-1j TOW cobra piloted by colonel ismail sehatti and his co-pilot were destroying iraqi small missile boats in arvand river that suddenly noticed unusual turbulence of water and after looking around noticed 3 mig-21 armed with rocket pods were hunting them. pilot tries to out maneuver the migs that were in CAS mission and didn't had any A2A missiles and frustrated them so they leave the TOW cobra, during this incidents pilot notices one of migs in his 12 o'clock direction and about to dive over ah-1j and hit it with it's cannon so he takes the advantage of moving turret of cobra and targets mig before he does the same. as result of several 20 mm cannon impact and G force resulted of migs dive, the plane broke into two pieces and crashes. in the mean time IRGC ADF targets another mig and the third mig aborts mission and flies back to its airbase.
the point of this story is always arm your planes with heat seeking/IIR missile to avoid the iraqi migs fate.

 

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did iraqis confirm this story?

 

[Mithridates]

did iraqis confirm this story?

no country would do that, like how US first denied iran captured rq-170 because of known reasons.

 

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but when i consider speed of jet fighter it is hard to believe. yes it is possible but hmmm...

 

[Mithridates]

but when i consider speed of jet fighter it is hard to believe. yes it is possible but hmmm...

these are the best turn ratios that three US maded fighters can achieve, now look at a cobra and how much it can turn in a second. the iraqis mistake was not to arm the plane with short range missiles however we can't blame them for it the plane has limited pylons.

 

[Mithridates]

another rare incident recorded by an IRIAF tiseo electro optical target acquisition system and again with iraqi air force involvment. this pucture depicts an incedent after iran-iraq war during persian golf war, an iraqi mig-25 confronts two f-15c and subsequently the eagles intercept it and fire several missiles on it, the mig pilot trying to avoid the missiles turns toward iran and with it's max speed enters our airspace and rescue itself, by his bad luck there were two iranian phantoms patrolling the border and as the iraqi pilot notices f-4s and due to desperation (we never had a peace with iraq and the war stopped with a cease fire and during first phase of PG war our airspace was not open to iraqi planes) and being cornered ejects. the event recorded by f-4 tiseo system.

 

[Oldman1]

lol , why dont you go and wear a MAGA cap and relax since you love Ivanca so much , no disrespect but you sound like a angry imbecile trying to justify America as the righteous Defender of the free world ,the horse sh**t you`v been fed by Uncle SAM is what you believe in and you are entitel to it , have a nice day

Hey don't be mad because what your mullahs said about destroying out carrier groups with one missile.

Your the one that's deluded enough to think that a country that has more than 3 times as many large known Missile Bases than Air Force Bases can only afford to fire 1 missile or even 1 type of missile at your ships.
And missiles aren't Iran's only means of striking at U.S. fleet as the U.S. learned in it's Millennial Challenge where it lost 16 ships in a matter of day's and that was against Iran's capabilities back in 2002 which was NOTHING compared to Iran's capabilities today.

You have to be deluded since the U.S. was trained against the Soviet Union with massive amount of bombers with hundreds of missiles at one carrier group. And not to mention the fact if you have missile bases, they will be destroyed.

And comparing Saddam's Missile capabilities in the 90's with Iran's today is rather absurd! And is as absurd as me equating Saddam's Air Force with the U.S. Air Force simply because they both use fighter jets.
So equating the two simply because they both used fighter jets with no regards to the quantity, quality, the various types and capabilities of the fighter jets...… is as absurd as equating Saddam's Missiles with Iran's Missiles simply because Iran will use missiles as a means of delivery.

Missiles like fighter jet are simply a means of delivering ordinances and Iran is NOT Iraq! Iran has spent the better part of the past 2 decades transferring the countries main retaliatory capabilities from it's Air Force to it's Missile Forces with the express purpose of confronting the U.S. because the U.S. has spent the better part of the past 2 decades threatening Iran with military action! And unlike with the U.S. for Iran it's a matter of survival so in response to the constant U.S. threats you think a long list of Iranian military commanders, think tanks & military planners from various branches haven't spent the better part of the past 2 decades in coming with the means of fighting off the U.S. by producing various types of weapons that are within Iran's capabilities to produce and not just missiles! Or are you truly deluded enough that you think that the U.S. has been threatening Iran and building military bases around Iran for the past 2 decades & in response Iranian military planners simply decided to stand around scratching their heads? HOW DELUSIONAL ARE YOU?

And you don't think the U.S. military planners thought of the same thing? After all the Millennium Challenge has their attention right?

 

[Caspian Parsi]

Hey don't be mad because what your mullahs said about destroying out carrier groups with one missile.

Mullas can bark all they want ,that what they do !!No one is doubting US capabilities, the way

Hey don't be mad because what your mullahs said about destroying out carrier groups with one missile.

Mullas can bark all they want oldman , believe it when you see it ,what they say is for internal consumption,then it gets echoed by the US media and here we are ,trying to make sense of it .

 

[OldTwilight]

Mullas can bark all they want ,that what they do !!No one is doubting US capabilities, the way

Mullas can bark all they want oldman , believe it when you see it ,what they say is for internal consumption,then it gets echoed by the US media and here we are ,trying to make sense of it .

Another one who is shaking his tails for his American master ....

 

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F-14 and MiG-29

 

[Aramagedon]

Defense Minister: Iran to Speed up Mass-Production of Kosar Fighter Jets

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami announced the country's plans to increase production of the newly-manufactured supersonic Kosar fighter jet.
"Experts of the defense ministry's air industries are determined to manufacture a larger number of Kosar fighter jets in the current year and in the minimum period of time possible in full cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran Army's air force and support by its Commander Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh," General Hatami said in the Central city of Isfahan on Tuesday after a visit to the site where the Kosar fighter jets are being produced.

General Nasirzadeh, for his part, expressed the hope that new Kosar fighter jets will join the operational fleet of the air force soon.

Iran in November inaugurated the production line of Kosar fighter jet.

Addressing the ceremony, General Hatami underlined that the mass-production of the domestically-made fighter jet indicated that sanctions and pressures against Iran were ineffective, describing it as a milestone and a new leap in increasing the combat power of the country's Air Force.

He said that research works would continue on Kosar fighter jet, adding that the country would manufacture more advanced generations of the warplane in the future.

Iran last September unveiled Kosar which is equipped with avionics (aviation electronics) and fire-control systems.

Kosar was unveiled in a ceremony participated by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran who ordered the fighter jet to fly.

The new fighter jet uses the fourth generation of military digital network and is equipped with heads-up display (HUD) system to increase the precision-striking power of weapons, advanced and multi-purpose radar for fire-control to boost the precision to trace the targets and threats and high-precision navigation system.

Kosar can be manufactured in two types of single-cockpits and double-cockpits and the second type can be used for training pilots in addition to enjoying combat capabilities.

According to the Iranian officials, the fighter jet is a supersonic combat plane different from the training Kosar 88 plane unveiled in April 2017.

Meantime, Army Lieutenant Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Dadras announced early September that Kosar had gone on line for mass-production.

"The defense ministry, in cooperation with the Air Force, is mass-producing the fighter jet," General Dadras said.

He added that Kosar had undergone different ground and air operational tests by the Iranian Air Force experts for numerous hours.

"We have ordered this fighter jet for the Army," General Dadras said.

 

[Aramagedon]

In Urdu:

Kowsar from 19:35:

 

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bell 214 with Dehlavye ATM

 

[MastanKhan]

"
While many US officials and Navy officers still believe that this stunning show put on by Grumman test pilots influenced the Shah’s final decision to order the F-14, Iranian officers interviewed by Cooper and Bishop strongly disagree. One of the first to fly the Tomcat was Maj Ali. He had experience of the F-4, as well as having exchange tours with the USAF, Israeli Defence Force /Air Force (IDF/AF), Luftwaffe, US Navy, RAF and Pakistani Air Force to his credit. He was later to score more than five aerial victories against Iraq, and he offered a further insight into the background to the Iranian order"---:


https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-iran-loves-f-14-tomcat-and-passed-f-15-eagle-65066