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New Name, Old Plane: Meet Iran’s Attempt to Modernize the F-5 Fighter The F-5 is an aging warplane that cannot compete well in the modern world even with a new look and coat of paint. Key point: Iran keeps reusing and upgraded old weapons in a way that is both impressively resourceful and rather shameless. As silly as it may seem, history shows that Tehran will do whatever it needs to survive--even if they tend to exaggerate how good those weapons are. In February 2017 I published an article on the Iranian Saeqeh (“Thunderbolt”) fighter. Billed as Iran’s first domestically-built jet ...

Did You Know? Iran Uses America F-14 Tomcats in Its Air Force What began as a way to counter the Soviets in the 1970s has resulted in one of America's rivals possessing its own technology. Here's What You Need To Remember: Five decades after the fact, Iran’s F-14s are only getting better and better. And more and more important to the Persian state’s defense. On April 9, 1972, Iraq and the Soviet Union signed an historic agreement. The USSR committed to arming the Arab republic with the latest weaponry. In return for sending Baghdad guns, tanks and jet fighters, Moscow got just one thing...

Advances in coputer tech have rendered this beloved fighter obsoltete.  Here's What You Need To Remember: The aircraft first flew as far back as 1970 and deployed from Navy carriers in 1974 and was ultimately cancelled in 2006 with the advent of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet. The Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat was already well known when it became famous by Hollywood in the widely loved Top Gun movie as a two-seater, carrier-launched, twin-engine supersonic air superiority fighter.  The Backstory:  The aircraft first flew as far back as 1970 and deployed from Navy carriers in 1974...

It doesn’t quite live up to Iran’s boasting of an “100% indigenously made” fighter jet. Here's What You Need to Remember: The irony is that Tehran doesn’t need to be ashamed of its resourceful use of old jet fighters. In the nine-year-long Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s, Iranian fighter pilots fought one of the most intense air wars in recent history defending their home soil. In February 2017 I published an article on the Iranian Saeqeh (“Thunderbolt”) fighter. Billed as Iran’s first domestically-built jet fighter to enter operational service, the Saeqeh. Fast forward and we...

Imperial Iranian Air Force, under Shah Reza Pahlavi. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Zandi stayed blue — a risky move at a time when Iranian military officers were being executed for doing their duty to one's country. But fighter pilots need to be bold and take risks. Zandi did spend some time in a prison cell, sentenced to 10 years for … whatever. Does it matter? In September 1980 — less than a year after the revolution in Iran — Saddam Hussein's Iraqi troops invaded Iran, whose military was woefully undermanned. So Zandi was back in the pilot's seat within six months. It was a go...