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[jauk]

Question is if the production line has already been adapted at HESA or wherever these are to be assembled.

Reports indicate assembly line set up a while ago and first operational units will be out February. Seems unreasonable fast to me.

 

[jauk]

Reza on Twitter is repeating what Babak Taghvaee (not a journalist anymore) was saying few months back.

Total number of Yak-130 in Iran right now = 12
Total number of SU-35S in Iran right now = 2 (Total 24 due)

The rumor of SU-35S assembly line and SU-30SM for training is yet to be confirmed by journalistic sources.

Both Partisan and Jangavar have confirmed via what they called credible and reliable sources.

 

[Tijani]

Reports indicate assembly line set up a while ago and first operational units will be out February. Seems unreasonable fast to me.

I'm also of the opinion that the assembly line must be up and running. Iran usually releases information when such things are already done. Just like the missiles it decides to inuagurate. I pray that this true. Missile centric warfare will still dominate their defence doctrine but it is always nice to have pretty new birds in the sky

 

[hny]

I'm also of the opinion that the assembly line must be up and running. Iran usually releases information when such things are already done. Just like the missiles it decides to inuagurate. I pray that this true. Missile centric warfare will still dominate their defence doctrine but it is always nice to have pretty new birds in the sky

I have heard in Hamadan? Wherever it is, I hope and trust that they are well protected for the next round of Israel's attack...

 

[Hypersonic]

Of course upgrading the airforce is a must for Iran. One other thing that will be key is interceptors UAVs which can carry 1-2 short- mid range air to air missiles. They have already incorporated the majid missile on karrar but they need something with more range and speed than karrar. It would not even have to be much larger than karrar. Imagine a force comprising of even 1000-2000 of such relatively small UAVs.

You could swarm the skies with such systems. No the autonomous technology is not there yet to have such UAVs counter advanced fighter jets in a one to one basis but you don’t need to! Having swarm of such uavs in the skies means the enemy will either have to scurry away or stay and shoot these UAVs down otherwise risk getting shot down.

Such an approach would suite the IRGC and I am honestly surprised they have not gone down this route yet (not that I know of anyway!). UCAVs with air to air capability will play an immmense role in the future so I hope Artesh’s Air force is also working on this as well, but I feel IRGC is more likely to high number of such UAVs in the future due to their better mass production capabilities.

 

[the saint]

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[MS Sandhu]

Of course upgrading the airforce is a must for Iran. One other thing that will be key is interceptors UAVs which can carry 1-2 short- mid range air to air missiles. They have already incorporated the majid missile on karrar but they need something with more range and speed than karrar. It would not even have to be much larger than karrar. Imagine a force comprising of even 1000-2000 of such relatively small UAVs.

You could swarm the skies with such systems. No the autonomous technology is not there yet to have such UAVs counter advanced fighter jets in a one to one basis but you don’t need to! Having swarm of such uavs in the skies means the enemy will either have to scurry away or stay and shoot these UAVs down otherwise risk getting shot down.

Such an approach would suite the IRGC and I am honestly surprised they have not gone down this route yet (not that I know of anyway!). UCAVs with air to air capability will play an immmense role in the future so I hope Artesh’s Air force is also working on this as well, but I feel IRGC is more likely to high number of such UAVs in the future due to their better mass production capabilities.

There is something called Electronic Warfare
Modern Fighter Jets are equiped with Advanced EW systems that can easily blind the tiny radars in UAVs.
I doubt UAVs can have enough power to house powerful radars & ECM systems unless you are developing something like Turkish Kizil Elma but then you cannot just swarm the air space b/c that thing is quite expensive way above 30M per Unit.
That's why we have Manned-Unmanned Teaming systems under development round the world.

 

[Mr Iran Eye]

People talk about different drones like the Karrar and others but let's not forget the one that often goes unnoticed during discussions. I don't know the name of the drone but I have the impression that it is getting to know Israel. It seems long range.

 

[Mr Iran Eye]

Already in 2016 the Saegheh UCAVs and variant drones were mass-produced. Imagine the quantity they have built in 8 years

 

[PakAl]

Iran should be trying to rebuild/upgrade F-14 Tomcat, beautiful 4th generation plane.

 

[UKBengali]

Iran should be trying to rebuild/upgrade F-14 Tomcat, beautiful 4th generation plane.
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Powerful AESA radar, new electronics and extremely long range BVRAAM would have meant that the Zionist strike would not have been possible last week.

Imagine this could carry 6 300km range AAMs.

Iran has all the technology to do this but maybe felt the cost was not worth it for just 40 airframes that would need to be retired within 5-10 years.

 

[Hack-Hook]

Iran should be trying to rebuild/upgrade F-14 Tomcat, beautiful 4th generation plane.
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maintenance heavy platform , iran should aim for something like grippen-e or rafale

 

[UKBengali]

maintenance heavy platform , iran should aim for something like grippen-e or rafale

No western platform can be trusted and they won't even sell to Iran either!

 

[Hack-Hook]

No western platform can be trusted and they won't even sell to Iran either!

lol, who said buy, here some people suggested iran build f-14 and i point to them the era of such interceptor is ended and we need to aim for building a light to medium multi-role fighter jet that interestingly outperform that interceptor if configured for air-to air combat

 

[UKBengali]

lol, who said buy, here some people suggested iran build f-14 and i point to them the era of such interceptor is ended and we need to aim for building a light to medium multi-role fighter jet that interestingly outperform that interceptor if configured for air-to air combat

Ok, my bad and I thought my understanding was off anyway!