Posted on 05/01/2011 7:05:34 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Iranian Air Force Equips F-14 Fighter Jets with Hi-Tech Radars
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force has equipped all its F-14 fighter jets with highly advanced radars, Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri announced on Sunday.
"The radar system of these fighters are highly complicated because it consists of a set of separated parts which should be linked to each other when they are mounted on the fighter jet, and this is a very complex scientific and technological process," Amiri told FNA.
"Our radars used to be mainly American and British in the past and these were the Americans and the British who determined the place for mounting our radar systems and they were, thus, fully informed of their blind spots," he said.
"But today that we produce all our radar systems domestically, we ourselves specify the place where these systems should be mounted and installed," the senior Army official said, and added, "And we cover the blind spots with other systems."
Iranian officials have announced that the country has now reached self-sufficiency in producing radar systems in different frequencies and for various ranges.
Also, Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Ahmad Miqani announced in November that the country's experts are boosting the range of home-made air defense radar systems to 3000km.
"Iran is working on a radar system that can cover areas within a range of 3,000 km," Miqani said, adding that the system will enable the country to identify all flying objects around the country.
A senior Iranian Air Defense commander also said in October that Iran's radar systems can detect all flying objects in the entire region, even in the Persian Gulf littoral states.
"In addition to the Southern borders and waters, all Persian Gulf littoral states are under the cover of the radars of the Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base," Commander of the Air Defense Unit of Southeastern Iran General Habibollah Alizadeh told FNA at the time.
Referring to the production of radar equipment and instruments inside the country, he said that Iran has gained self-sufficiency in producing radar systems and it is no more dependant on any foreign country in this ground.
“The radar system of these fighters are highly complicated because it consists of a set of separated parts which should be linked to each other when they are mounted on the fighter jet, and this is a very complex scientific and technological process,”
They’re using a string and two soup cans tied together?
these planes should have been converted to charred wreckage during or immediatly after the hostage saga
This news story is hard to believe. I read somewhere that in 1979, when the Shah was overthrown, the U.S. Defense Contractors who were help maintaining the Fleet essentially disabled the planes.
The ravages of time and inability to get parts probably hamstrung the Iranians to put together only a small number of jets.
I guess they cant figure out how fiber optic cable works.
I guess they cant figure out how fiber optic cable works.
I guess they cant figure out how fiber optic cable works.
DAmnit! Iranians are hacking my account!
Line of sight to an air breathing target from the surface is about 220 NM. Unless he is describing an over-the-horizon capability, this is pure BS and empty braggadocio. Whom, exactly, does he think he's fooling? Certainly not himself.
Hey he was busy getting the hostages out of Iran via a LARGE stick and meaningful rhetoric!..................
Oh....wait a minute.... that was Reagan in 1981 wasn't it.
I sure hope to he!! we have just as great an American as a successor after Obama as we had after Carter.
We desperately need one.
I was working as a technician for a defense contractor when the Shah was overthrown. One of the things being manufactured was a key component for the actuators on the variable geometry wing of the Tomcat. The pieces that were part of the purchase order from the Iranians got damaged (deliberately) by the shop workers.
Did the Soviets wind up doing some reverse engineering of the Tomcat? The Mullahs did provide samples of the Phoenix and the radar.
NOTHING....NOTHING beats a super heterodyne!!! LOL!
I would not believe Iranian claims. They are lucky to keep some of their F-14s in the air.
Iranian F-14 aka lawn dart or artificial reef eventually.
We’re do they get the parts to keep those babies flying?
Maybe it’s just the angle the photo was taken at, but are the wings on an F-14 supposed to look like that in flight?
“Ahmed! Quit cranking or you’ll cut the tail off this plane too!”
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