Photo: Tasnim
Following the withdrawal of the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran deal, as it is known, the Islamic Republic went back to its bellicose rhetoric, threatening the world with this or that calamity.
On Tuesday, on the eve of the National Day of Defense Industry which will take place in the nation’s capital, Tehran, the Iranians pulled the wraps off what is hailed to be the first-ever, 100 percent Iranian-built, state-of-the-art fighter jet.
The unveiling ceremony was held in the presence of the republic’s president, Hassan Rouhani, who praised it as a deterrent meant to stop giving the green light “for others to enter this country."
The jet is called Kowsar, according to Iranian news agency Tasnim, and has been built in the wake of extensive research conducted by the defense ministry.
There’s literally no details available about the fighter jet, being the secretive project that it is.
Tasnim describes it in very vague terms, saying it can carry various weapons and is to be used for short aerial support missions. It has an “integrated architecture and a fire control system using the fourth generation of the digital data networks,” whatever that means.
There are not many details publicly available about the size and force of the Iranian Air Force either, but the general consensus is that it lacks any chance of making a potential enemy run for serious cover.
The lineup of aircraft is a mess of machines, mostly Russian-built, but also western. The backbone of the airforce are the Sukhoi Su-24s and Su-22s, the MIG-29s, and even Chinese versions of the MIG-21.
There are a number of American-built planes currently in service, supplied by the United States and purchased by Iran during the reign of the last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: F-4 Phantom, Grumman F-14, P-3 Orion or Northrop F-5.
The unveiling ceremony was held in the presence of the republic’s president, Hassan Rouhani, who praised it as a deterrent meant to stop giving the green light “for others to enter this country."
The jet is called Kowsar, according to Iranian news agency Tasnim, and has been built in the wake of extensive research conducted by the defense ministry.
There’s literally no details available about the fighter jet, being the secretive project that it is.
Tasnim describes it in very vague terms, saying it can carry various weapons and is to be used for short aerial support missions. It has an “integrated architecture and a fire control system using the fourth generation of the digital data networks,” whatever that means.
There are not many details publicly available about the size and force of the Iranian Air Force either, but the general consensus is that it lacks any chance of making a potential enemy run for serious cover.
The lineup of aircraft is a mess of machines, mostly Russian-built, but also western. The backbone of the airforce are the Sukhoi Su-24s and Su-22s, the MIG-29s, and even Chinese versions of the MIG-21.
There are a number of American-built planes currently in service, supplied by the United States and purchased by Iran during the reign of the last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: F-4 Phantom, Grumman F-14, P-3 Orion or Northrop F-5.
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