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PakAl said:
Does Iran mass produce the Fakour 90 missile, it is claimed it has 150km of range.
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Yes, there are also many other air-launched weapons made in Iran that must be installed on the helicopters and fighters that Iran buys from Russia in future.
 
Flotilla said:
And toooooo risky to shoot a IR missile so close of a Mig29!!!!. Those off boresight missiles can slave the side aircraft easily!!!!!.
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This shows the ability of Iranian pilots. Ukrainians lost several fighter jets due to shahed hunting missions
 
Emirzad said:
It can be carried and fired from F-4E/D "Dowran Upgraded" fighter but plane can barely pull 3-4 Gs with it.
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I initially dismissed this idea back when i first read about it, but then seeing the americans put 4 (!) of the much heavier AIM-174 on their F-18E/F, with which probably that plane can't even go past Mach 1, i can see the F-4 carry 2 x Fakkour under the wings. Probably the MiG-29 could too if upgraded, one might imagine the Fakkour would be weighing about the same as AIM-54 at about 450kg.
 
Distorted Yak-130 pic but it shows tail number 105.
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mack8 said:
Distorted Yak-130 pic but it shows tail number 105.
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considering the two previous batches were of 2 Yak-130s each, it would lead one to think that in Iran there is also at least a sixth aircraft probably with number 106.
 
mack8 said:
I initially dismissed this idea back when i first read about it, but then seeing the americans put 4 (!) of the much heavier AIM-174 on their F-18E/F, with which probably that plane can't even go past Mach 1, i can see the F-4 carry 2 x Fakkour under the wings. Probably the MiG-29 could too if upgraded, one might imagine the Fakkour would be weighing about the same as AIM-54 at about 450kg.
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Interesting.

I too was under the impression that Fakour - even just two - would render F-4 severely G-limited.

I even think that such a trail with 2 Fakours on a F-4 was indeed carried out.

However, considering an F-18E/F carrying 4 of these shows what is possible if circumstances permit. These circumstances being the presence of R-37M and PL-17.

So somewhere there must be a way to make this happen.

Like so perhaps:- but on an F-4?

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The above are of course just an artist's impression.

Fakour-90 specs:- Length= 3.96m, D= 356mm, W= 465kg, Range ~160km. I got the afore written info from the defence catalogue published online by Iran.

Fakour-90B/Maghsoud has an approximate range of ~200km.
 
Couple more shots of Su-57 in Iran.
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Piet said:
Interesting.

I too was under the impression that Fakour - even just two - would render F-4 severely G-limited.

I even think that such a trail with 2 Fakours on a F-4 was indeed carried out.

However, considering an F-18E/F carrying 4 of these shows what is possible if circumstances permit. These circumstances being the presence of R-37M and PL-17.

So somewhere there must be a way to make this happen.

Like so perhaps:- but on an F-4?

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The above are of course just an artist's impression.

Fakour-90 specs:- Length= 3.96m, D= 356mm, W= 465kg, Range ~160km. I got the afore written info from the defence catalogue published online by Iran.

Fakour-90B/Maghsoud has an approximate range of ~200km.
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Do you have a link by any chance to that iranian defence catalog?

As to the F-4 and Fakkour-90, i imagined two them carried on the big inner wing hardpoints (no Lo pods or anything fancy like that, but more or less just the way the F-14 carries them on the wing glove pylons) and if they're daring, a third one on the underfuselage pylon. After all, the weight equivalent would be of "merely" 3x Mk-83 bombs, and i'm sure the F-4 can carry that with no issue?
 
mack8 said:
Do you have a link by any chance to that iranian defence catalog?

As to the F-4 and Fakkour-90, i imagined two them carried on the big inner wing hardpoints (no Lo pods or anything fancy like that, but more or less just the way the F-14 carries them on the wing glove pylons) and if they're daring, a third one on the underfuselage pylon. After all, the weight equivalent would be of "merely" 3x Mk-83 bombs, and i'm sure the F-4 can carry that with no issue?
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Copy that.

The IRIAF will have to look at this subject again, and very carefully.

That defence catalog is at:-


Piet
 
Piet said:
Unfortunately I could no raise Mindex at the moment, but I will search for a possible screenshot of Fakour-90.

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Well bummer. I was interested to see all the stuff they have in that catalogue, not just the Fakkour. Maybe there's a copy of it saved somewhere!
 
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