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If and when is the 64 million dollar questionDoes anyone have relatively well-informed information about how many Sukhoi 35s Iran will (hopefully) be receiving? I hear conflicting reports/news of 24 then some have mentioned about 60...thank you in advance.
Does anyone have relatively well-informed information about how many Sukhoi 35s Iran will (hopefully) be receiving? I hear conflicting reports/news of 24 then some have mentioned about 60...thank you in advance.
Making the Iranian air force stronger massively will be costly and a fool's errand, as their air bases will be hit first and foremost. Iran has to have a decentralized and dispersed approach to it's air defense, which is what it has.
If is a huge word.If you cannot protect your own airspace - then everything that is important to you on the ground can be destroyed.
If you cannot protect your own airspace
Can it carry all of Iran's most modern air launched cruise missiles and glide bombs? Any updates to the cockpit like they did in the Kowsar?
If so, overhauled airframes/engines with capability for precision cruise missiles and glide bombs is an insanely deadly weapon in today's world.
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Found it at last. I kind of lost track where it was posted to.Iran should never ever give up on Fakour-90 or its upgraded Maghsoud Long range BVR missiles.
Look at Americans, using SM-6 SAM as A2A BVR weapon with 250 KM range along side AIM-120D. BVR is not for kill, its for thwarting enemy at distance, ruining the enemy's attack mission esp if you are operating from within the IADS. A thwarted incoming enemy at BVR ranges now now has to pull countermeasures, maneuvers to dodge the BVR which exposes them to IADS.
Which also begs the question, can Sayyad-3/4 be converted into such A2A weapon? SM-6 and Sayyad-4 have similar performance so why not? We have (and are getting) powerful large fighters that can carry them.
I know years back there was talk of 9-dey missile turning into a lighter long range BVR weapon. Such a missile will be marvel considering it is lighter and can take track info from aircraft's IRST+Radar, probably will reach 150 KM easily. Decades back there was a test of integrating SM-1 on F-4.
The last from China, shown in an F-4?
Piet
Greetings:-Nothing is Chinese, the F-4 upgrade is indigenous.
The first time I heard of the program was in 2011 when it was supposed to be totally a Chinese package with JL-10A radar, PL-10/12, PL5 etc. Chinese backed out and the upgrade went to the IAIO of Iran.
Lack of budget did not allow IRIAF to get the fleet upgraded to extremes but still an upgraded IRIAF F-4E/D "Dowran" is nothing short of PLAAF JH-7. Because of rampant corruption/incompetence in IRIAF the program is not what it should have been considering how effective a strike platform F-4/D is.
I personally feel that with 64 airframes in IRIAF possession and ~20 more damaged/idle ones (for spares or if some can be revived), IRIAF can get a very lethal attack arm if right amount of $ is invested in F-4E/D fleet. Even if IRIAF gets large numbers of SU-35, the fleet should be transfered to IRGC-AF, they will bring the best out of it considering how deep their SU-22M3/M4 upgrades were with datalinks, ALBM, jammers etc
This is a pulse doppler radar, and an ancient one at that.
This is a pulse doppler radar, and an ancient one at that.