Zitat:Wolf postete
@Patriot: 2008 noch keine Kernwaffen im iranischen Arsenal und keine Erwähnung von Atomwaffen durch die Amis?

Welches Kind hat diese Zukunftsvision erstellt?

edit: sorry Turin

Zitat:Iranian F-14s are not exposed to stress of cat-launches and landings from/on carriers, nor to the salty sea-water. Their main base is actually in a quite dry semi-desert, and they are usually parked inside HASes with thick walls, which are very good in keeping them in shade, safe from the sun and sand. In fact, HASes at TFB.8 are so large, they are also good in having a very stabile temperature - which means that there is no condensation creating water around different parts of the airframe.

This means that the structure of IRIAF F-14s does not suffer the similar stress, nor are they as exposed to corrosion as USN Tomcats were. Iranian F-14s also have plenty of their avionics upgraded with solid-state elements (while all the USN's F-14As and F-14Bs hardly ever got anything similar).

Besides, six years back, the USN has completed a general inspection of all of its F-14s, concluding that they have - despite very intensive use, and many airframes having between 5.000 and 6.000 flying hours on them - reached only something like 50% of their useful life. And this, despite all the negative circumstances under which they usually operate.

Now, we do not know what is the number of flying hours an average IRIAF F-14 airframe has, but this is clearly pointing at how much life must still be left in them.

Zitat:Iran Manufactures Laser Defense Warning System

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran once again displayed another of its first time productions in the military sector, and this time it is a laser defense warning system entirely designed and produced by Iranian experts at the army's industrial university.
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The General stated that the highly advanced laser defense warning system produced by the professors and researchers of the Defense Ministry's Malik-e Ashtar Industrial University empowers Iranian military forces to jam and divert various types of laser-guided missiles, bombs, rockets or shells.
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Zitat:Ukraine sells Kolchuga to Iran

By Robert Karniol JDW Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief
Bangkok

The Kolchuga is intended to detect the take-off and formation of aircraft groups at ranges beyond those of existing radar, as well as determine the course and speed of targets while designating them for air-defence systems. It can identify aerial targets through their emissions and identify the mode of aircraft weapon control systems.

Three Kolchuga stations would normally operate along with a command vehicle to provide accurate triangulation on a target. The system is claimed to have a range of 600 km (narrow beam) or 200 km (wide beam) along a front of 1,000 km.

It is not known how many Kolchuga stations Iran has acquired. However, sources told Jane's that each costs about USD25 million, with deliveries either recent or imminent.

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A complex consisting of three Kolchuga radar stations makes it possible to spot ground and surface targets and trace their movement within a radius of 600 km (air targets at the 10 km altitude - up to 800 km), which makes an effective early warning air defense system. The Kolchuga station is equipped with five meter-, decimeter-, and centimeter-range aerials, which provide for high radio sensitivity within a 110dB/W - 155 dB/W swath, depending on the frequency.

The 800-km detection range has been achieved only by the Ukrainian Kolchuga. The best the U.S. AWACS can do is 600 km, while the ground-based complexes Vera (Czech Republic) and Vega (Russia) can reach out up to 400 km - half what the Ukrainian complex can reach.
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Zitat:New Generation of Iranian Drones Join Army Fleet

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A new generation of Iran-made drones was delivered to the army and IRGC in the presence of Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar who announced Iran's self-sufficiency in drone production.
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He also stated that use of drones in the near future would rocket security of Iranian borders, as the Iranian-made drones have so far proved their efficiency in more than 1000 sortie of flights on different missions, including border control and security, anti-drug campaigns, city-traffic control and cartography.
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