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Combat miscellany: Iran's mix-and-match airforce still poses a threat
- Source :
- Aviation Week & Space Technology. Sept 11, 2006, Vol. 165 Issue 10, p55, 2 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- The Iranian air force inventory is a mix of Western, Russian and Chinese combat aircraft, most of them obsolescent. Any spares will have to be bought surreptitiously or be work-arounds and spares support is also problematic with the Russian aircraft. But these issues do not necessarily indicate that the air force is tactless since it exercises regularly with units of F-14 Tomcat, Mig-29 Fulcrum, F-4 Phantom, F-5, and Mirage F1aircraft and also operates a network of air defense radars.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00052175
- Volume :
- 165
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Aviation Week & Space Technology
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.152454296