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| Iran's army air force begins military exercise |
| 2008-10-18 |
| Iranian state-run television says the country's army air force has begun a military exercise near Iran's northwestern border with Turkey. Thursday's report says jet fighters, including American-made F-4s, F-5s and F-14s and Russian-made Sukhoi planes, are involved in the operation. The exercise in the northwestern town of Tabriz also includes the new domestically manufactured jet fighter called the Saegheh, or Lightning. The broadcast says the exercise is aimed at boosting Iran's defense capabilities, upgrading the morale of the army and displaying the might of the country's air force. Iran launched an arms development program during its 1980s war with Iraq to compensate for a U.S. weapons embargo. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 They have to get their parachute training in. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-18 09:45 |
| #8 Sounds like an excellent opportunity to test the airborne laser on some of their better aircraft. That's the thing about Russian aircraft. It's just so darned unreliable. One instant you're flying along, and the next, *POOF*, you disintegrate into burning metal filings. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-10-18 09:33 |
| #7 I wonder how much of an effect the lack of an air force is affecting the negotiations for the new military arrangements between the US and Iraq. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-10-18 05:46 |
| #6 I wonder how much of an effect the lack of an air force is affecting the negotiations for the new military arrangements between the US and Iraq. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-10-18 05:46 |
| #5 Train hard you bastards! I suspect you'll very soon (sometime btwn Nov 4, and Jan 2009) be involved in a live fire exercise with the IDF. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-18 05:10 |
| #4 In the mid to late seventies Iranian pilots were receiving training at Reese AFB. A T-38 trainer at low altitude will set off an alarm to remind a pilot to deploy his landing gear. An Iranian pilot on a solo flight approaching for landing failed to deploy his landing gear. The tower yelled at him on the radio to deploy his landing gear.The pilot belly landed the plane. They asked him later why he did not deploy his landing gear after the tower yelled at him on the radio to do so. He told them he could not hear them because of a loud beeping noise inside the cockpit. |
| Posted by: darrylq 2008-10-18 04:21 |
| #3 Something like this, I'd assume? |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-10-18 02:12 |
| #2 Brings to mind the old Iranian Airforce theme song: Into the Air, Junior Birdmen.... |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2008-10-18 01:20 |
| #1 Or it is aimed at intimidating Iraq through a display of air power that Iraq would be helpless to defend against until it gets an Air Force of its own. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-10-18 01:15 |
