Photos The Islamic Republic Of Iran Military Photos

[DENO]

I see so much US Military hardware in these photos. I have to wonder where does Iran get the spare parts to maintain this equipment?? Where? Does anyone know?

For their old commercial Boeings they had used Turkish Airlines Technic Services for years but currently its also blocked by Turkish government. Like the other authors are stated Iran is very creative in case of reengineering their spare parts. Even in 1979 September they put around 70 of their active F-14s on sale because they already realized it would be troublesome to maintain these without US support. In tandem with that, in December 1979 Turkish Air Force officials visited Tehran to inspect the planes on sale but they were evaluated in very bad condution even months after from the Molle coup and it would be to costly to overhaul them. The most recent example is their re-engineered combat fighter called "Kawsar" over F5 series with Chinese Avionics and Russian engines.

 

[BravoZulu]

New Iranian missile, Iran keeps researching and recreating Kh-55, which was bought in Ukraine in 2000s
Named Howeizeh, range increased up to 1500km.

 

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Iranian MiG-29, F-14, Su-24 & F-4

 

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TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) – Two Ghadir-class submarines joined the fleet of the Iranian Navy on Thursday morning in a ceremony held at Bandar Abbas with the Commander of Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi in attendance.

 

[BravoZulu]

^^ Seems to be pretty shoddy construction quality, damned if I would go to sea in it!!

Ghadir (Persian: غدیر‎) is a class of midget submarines built by Iran specifically for cruising within the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, with a displacement (surfaced) estimated at about 115 long tons (117 metric tons), is probably better described as a coastal or littoral submarine, similar in concept to the Italian Sauro class though significantly smaller. It is based on the North Korean Yono-class submarine. Photographs indicate a pair of bow torpedo tubes around 21 inches (530 mm) diameter, allowing them to fire typical heavyweight torpedoes. It could thus serve as a launch platform for the VA-111 Shkval rocket torpedo.

There are 23 Ghadir-class minisubs in service with the Iranian Navy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadir-class_submarine

 

[vonFeilitzsch]

It looks like a diving coffin to me

 

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IRIAF F-14AM is seen landing at Tactical Fighter Base 8 in Baba’i, near Eshahan in central Iran

 

[FoxBat]

I see so much US Military hardware in these photos. I have to wonder where does Iran get the spare parts to maintain this equipment?? Where? Does anyone know?

same place iran gets it hand on a combat rifles like the ACR-

either they steal them in iraq

or the buy them from somewhere , iran-contra affair was one such affair that came underneath the spotlight

here the iranian ACR

 

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[FoxBat]

American trained Green Berets , from the pre -1979 era

Today's green berets , with more or less the same american educated higher ranking people

operating in places such as syria


Alpine commandos

military counter-intelligence

iranian ghilli suit

one of the early scuds

an iranian basij paramilitary inspects missile mock ups

Iran's only 3 - staged rocket , based also on the 60s USSR bottleneck missile tech

 

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poorist condition jet

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

What is really impressive is how they keep the Tomcats operating, it must be admitted that they are quite ingenious!

 

[vonFeilitzsch]

Actually your scud is a 9k52Luna, foxbat probably captured from Iraq. The next picture is a Scud-B.

 

[FoxBat]

What is really impressive is how they keep the Tomcats operating, it must be admitted that they are quite ingenious!

well , they don't . they salvage parts from another tomcats by people who were trained in America pre-1979 , they simply have the knowledge . out of 79 tomcats delivered to iran no more than 15 or 16 are operational . most of which appear on internet websites like this . in fact as you might know f-14 s are used as aerial reconassaince more than air to air , sir superiority and such .

i myself have been to most airports around iran and i have seen many parked f-4 phantoms , f-5s chinooks , hercules airlift but really not any f-14s ..

 

[FoxBat]

Actually your scud is a 9k52Luna, foxbat probably captured from Iraq. The next picture is a Scud-B.

thanks for the clarification ,

but no i'm not aware of any operational mig 25 foxbats who flew from iraq in 1991 , maybe they handed them back to russia , i don't know but iran was mostly interested in the swept wing mig 23 and the sukhoi ground bombers which they recently used in syria and iraq to bomb the islamic state union . mig 25 is a high altitude almost like the american sr-71 which iran has no research value for a primitive country like iran .

 

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your name is foxbat i was adressing you

 

[vonFeilitzsch]

Relating the F14s:They are at Isfahan IAP quite well visible on some satellite pictures and also at Mehrabad.

 

[FoxBat]

a two seater (probably trainer ) mig 29 together with a mig 23 stolen from iraq against a background of a row of parked f-4 phantoms .

like i told you there are many f-4s f-5s , f-5 copies etc at some major iranian airports but not many f-14s really .

a batch of mig 29 s

a public display of pre-1979 equipments from america

an f-14 taxiing together with a mig 23

the former IIAF imperial iranian air force