Whether Iran is a theocracy or not has no relevance to its defense industry :rolleyes: Everyone with at least the brain of a cockroach understands, whether they believe in God or not, that science and technology are fundamental to weapons which are the most important to winning wars 😎

yes i agree. science and technology are fundamental.
what you dont understand is

iran is a theocracy. they value religion over science. so they rather spend more time on funding religion than science because science is usually the enemy of religion.

israel is a secular democracy. they value science and bargains. thus they are more willing to sponsor science.

thats why Israel can make these which are powered by the achievements of science

and why Iran makes these, which rely on the power of religion and faith to make airborne

And how exactly doesn’t Iran value education? :rolleyes:

Over 35,000 in the defense sector. About a third of them university graduates. Iran also has thousands of graduate students studying engineering in the West.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Industries_Organization

Israel is 75% Jewish, but it has the Star of David on its flag and is internationally recognized as the Jewish state. Could be different when Arabs make up 50% of Israel’s population.

Iran values theology over science. of course you’ll have graduate students if they go to theology schools.

case in point. Iran’s leader studied religion in college. israel’s leader studied architecture and political science at MIT.

most people consider religion a mickey mouse course.

racism much? :rolleyes:

Israel is not a race. it is a country that values education. Israel has Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians, and Marvins.

a month old but never posted

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lawandorder/s-korea-kfx-fighter-deal-on-hold-again-as-park-takes-presidency/575655

South Korea holds KFX development,delays it over a year. Indonesia concerned.

The sighting system of Toufan II is akin to those of Super Hind and AH-1Z and WZ-10, in that it is of the helmet slaved all moving ball type. Mi-28N has a similar sight. Toufan II is similar in capability to Mi-28N. Toufan II is a light attack chopper, not a heavy attack such as Mi-28N or Apache.

Mi-28N is the 4th most capable attack helicopter in the world

Toufan maybe 20th, certainly behind the top light attack helicopters which are Tigre, Turkey Mongoose, and Super Cobra. and definitely far behind the heavy ones.

mig-31 only had 4 wing pylons. I think the inner two pylons can handle an AShM weapon. the other two pylons would likely be fuel tanks or self defense missiles.

potentially I think the fueselage could carry it but it would need some modification.

I don’t know about the flight profile needed to launch it.

There is some logic to the idea of just going all in for more Su-30, but I think the difference (besides ToT which they already have from Su-30, and Rafale offers new and different approaches/tech) is in the longer term picture, where Su-30 would NOT be the high end dominant fighter it is vs. new ‘stealth’ platforms from China. In that long term picture, a Rafale which would have France’s top notch developments applied to MLU would be just as or more effective at nearly all A2G, and be cheaper to operate.

you think Rafale can take on j-20 and j-31?