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Scale models. Made by the late modeller and photographer Fariborz Shammas.
He was very talented, and at first glance most people mistake his work for the real thing.
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There are rumors bro, do we really have Falcon? Some say 1 of them was delivered before revolution took place, the 'A' version which shah had ordered.
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The F-16s were scheduled to be delivered in 1980. So I don't think we even got that 1 F-16.
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lol shouldve waited a year before u guys went nannas
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ALCON,
We can be 99.9% sure no F-16s ended up in Iran, due to the projected delivery schedule. There is some evidence that some AGE kit (power carts for example) and possibly some ATM-9L training rounds were delivered in 1978-1979. These items are rumored to have been sold/traded to Pakistan back in the 1980s. IIRC, the first components for the first batch of aircraft had been manufactured but no complete aircraft by the time of the Revolution.
Ironically, the F-16s that were on the assembly-line meant for Iran, likely ended up delivered to Israel's air force. In fact, the cancellation of Iran's initial order for 160 F-16A/Bs actually caused the unit cost of the F-16 to increase across-the-board quite a bit (I'll have to hunt for the actual percentage, swear I have it in one of my books).
The Venezuelan rumor is so far just that, a rumor of a rumor of a rumor. We do know Iranian DoD personnel got to see/inspect some of Venezuela's F-16s but that's all we can confirm. I think the most you can hope for is the IRIAF got to send some pilots there to do some cross-training.
We can be 99.9% sure no F-16s ended up in Iran, due to the projected delivery schedule. There is some evidence that some AGE kit (power carts for example) and possibly some ATM-9L training rounds were delivered in 1978-1979. These items are rumored to have been sold/traded to Pakistan back in the 1980s. IIRC, the first components for the first batch of aircraft had been manufactured but no complete aircraft by the time of the Revolution.
Ironically, the F-16s that were on the assembly-line meant for Iran, likely ended up delivered to Israel's air force. In fact, the cancellation of Iran's initial order for 160 F-16A/Bs actually caused the unit cost of the F-16 to increase across-the-board quite a bit (I'll have to hunt for the actual percentage, swear I have it in one of my books).
The Venezuelan rumor is so far just that, a rumor of a rumor of a rumor. We do know Iranian DoD personnel got to see/inspect some of Venezuela's F-16s but that's all we can confirm. I think the most you can hope for is the IRIAF got to send some pilots there to do some cross-training.
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Its from the '90s. More likely Qaher is parallel to this.
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lmao how many fighter jet projects do u have?
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I wonder where in Israel you're located. You're obviously more than a casual observer here. You must be very low on the Totem pole if you're assigned to this forum...Now I'm LMAO.
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