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2008-10-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran's army air force begins military exercise

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#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|| 2008-10-18 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Brings to mind the old Iranian Airforce theme song: Into the Air, Junior Birdmen....

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-10-18 01:20|| 2008-10-18 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Something like this, I'd assume?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-10-18 02:12|| 2008-10-18 02:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-10-18 04:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-10-18 05:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-10-18 05:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-10-18 05:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-10-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 They have to get their parachute training in.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-18 09:45|| 2008-10-18 09:45|| Front Page Top

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