Posted on 07/29/2008 6:04:34 PM PDT by Perdogg
Brigadier General Ahmad Miqani was quoted by press tv as saying on Monday that Iran's Air Force has achieved self-sufficiency in the repair, maintenance and overhaul of its equipment.
He added that Iranian military experts are capable of overhauling F-5 two-seaters, F-14 Tomcat fighter jets, 707 and 747 aircrafts with only forty days of work.
"We have upgraded our air force fleet, state-of-the-art radar-systems, and rocket launchers over the past few years," Brig. Gen. Miqani said, adding that the country would continue its efforts to reach the peak of its military capability.
The Iranian Air Force chief announced that the country is mass producing different types of drones used in reconnaissance missions, pinpointing enemy bases, and carrying explosives.
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I agree with you. It’s not Iran’s technology that makes them a terrible threat, it’s their strategic position and their assymetric positions within other mid east countries that gives them another form of power projection.
When they achieve nuclear weaponry, they will be able to dictate to the rest of the ME and Obama will likely hand over Iraq’s security to them.
What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh?
They reverse engineer them. Think of all the high tech milling machines that they can buy from the likes of China. Iran has the money to invest in keeping their U.S. supplied airframes flying.
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