Re: Iran Develops Its Own Fighter Plane
Iran basically managed to stick some nuts and bolts and create a reverse engineered F-5....
Thats good for them, I wish Pakistan to do the same, atleast we wouldn't depend on someone for parts and could learn the technology.
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We all know that, what their education resulted in is an open book for world to see in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Remember 'ultertior motives'? The Bush administration from day 1 has manipulated and cherry picked intelligence to further its neocon agenda.
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Pakistan is decades ahead of Iran
How can you compare Iran with Pakistan?
Pakistan makes its own Tanks, Submarines, Fighters, etc....
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How can you compare Iran with Pakistan?
Pakistan makes its own Tanks, Submarines, Fighters, etc....
Who does Pakistan rely on for F-16 parts for example?
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this is a good development, at least it shows muslims are now making an effort to build weapons be it at a slow rate. As we saw in lebanon( israel disgrace well made us weapons) any competitive weapons will get results.
this jet is a good start, many more are required. this is where the unemployed youths energy should be channelled. if in any day in future iran has an answer to most us systems, we can expect the world community to be warmer, friendlier when dealing with iran. cowards!
iraq, afganistan, lebanon have unfortunately only served to decrease the war threshold. to make it undesirable someone has to stand up. hit back. And hit back hard.
all these issues are to do with israelli national security or should i say national interests(ie not having negotiated with some refugees). israel is unrelented in its pursuit of suffering another holocaoust. zionists should have stuck to the argentina plan. tick tock
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Saddams former Air Farce was at least the equivalent of these Iranian buckets. In Gulf War I most of Iraqs pilots who were shot down never saw the airplane that fired the missle. Air wars are a battle of sensors. Anybody want to be the guy turning on an Iranian radar? Are you brave enough to turn that switch on? Most anti-radar operations will be done with stealth drones. After that these planes are blind. Not good.
In any shooting war, the Saudis would aid the rest of the Gulf States, with AWACs coverage. They would see these things as soon as the wheels are up.
But feel happy for great Iran if you want. They are doing a good job of pi$$ing away those petro dollars.
Sensors
Training and Flight Time
Tactics
Leadership
and then Airframe.
Western Air Forces trained from the 60's on to intercept hundreds of Soviet versions of this plane. This is nothing new, it performs like a little MIG circa 1968.
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Egypt, turkey, Belgium and after 9/11 bush authorized sales of parts for pakistan's f-16 to keep them flying
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Exactly, so Pakistan should prepare herself so we do not have to rely on anyone.
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^
Good idea, spend hundreds of billions on making inferior jet fighters.
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errr, F-16 is still in high demand, atleast by Pakistan Airforce... unless you want to say F-16 is a useless technology.
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Not at all, I thought you were suggesting that Pakistan start building its own jet fighters.
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^ you should read all posts before jumping to conclusion.
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Well I've read it and Im pretty certain you are suggesting that Pakistan should build their own jets.
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Yes Pakistan should build their own jets like F-16s ... FYI:
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of course they should, and export too. there is huge demand, pakistan would no1 choice for many countries. the pakistani psyche will always want indigenous weapons
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good on iran :k: development is development, whether its big or small is always appreciated. Its daft to start comparing Iran to the US, who said they were in competition with you? they’re advancing within their own right and we’re with them all the way. so stop acting like a bunch of sourpusses folks. grow up.
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Waste of money.
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yea its good see you're so concerned. arent we being the typical american samaritan, poking our noses where its not wanted as usual...
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money is a raw material, just a raw material
defence is priceless
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wow!!!
what struck me was the fact, “*duh… these gliders dont stand a chance against the highly sophisticated airborne slaughtering machines that are in use by USA and Israel - they are FAR FAR superior *”
… thanks, we are aware of it and therefore reserve the right to develop and work towards developing arms as a Deterrant (sp?) for our own defense so that we can live in peace 
:k: to all nations who have some self respect and believe in their right of self defense