I’ll keep it short. Based on what i know, this Saeqeh thing is just for propaganda, and a pathetic one at that. It has practically no capability left (it’s heavier, cockpit interface exactly the same as F-5, most likely it doesn’t even have the radar anymore as they will need ballast to offset the TWO tails now, can’t carry the AIM-9, there’s a pic of ONE with the rails but that means nothing). It wasn’t really intended to be that, apparently one story is that the last decade the iranians wanted to copy the F-5, but they hit the problem of copyright ( imo can’t figure out why would they have cared anyway) so they had to change it in order not to be called a copy, hence the two tails. It was also planned to have modern avionics (perhaps chinese, or from other sources, there’s rumour about some Grifo radars delivered via Pakistan, not sure how true).
Anyway, as you could see on the prototype, it at least looked logical, it had a bigger section nose to presumably cater for the twin tail, and possibly for a bigger radar dish, modified intakes which (i thought and hoped) are for a bigger engine later on, like an RD-33, what a little rocket that would have been, there are several pics of a similar model around. But whatever happened, the project apparently failed ( i’ve heard of serious aerodynamic problems due to the changes- i’m sure they could have been sorted out if there was the will, and especially the technical base), but here the retarded mullahs enter the scene, they demanded, against the IRIAFs opinion, to convert some F-5s with twin tails solely for propaganda purposes. The IRIAF did not wanted that because as one can see, they are 5 or 6 wasted airframes, and IRIAF needs every damn airframe now, but they couldn’t do anything.
Same story with the Azarakhsh, it was a serious avionics projects (with MFDs, Grifo radar etc.) but that failed (not sure why, lack of expertise, lack of avionics, or perhaps the mullah cronies) and instead they painted several of the F-5s green and with fake radomes and call it “indigenous”. Worse of all is the story of the Shafaq, cancelled, you have to be really stupid to alienate the russians, but the mullahs did it. That would have been a beautiful little modern aircraft.
It seems to be most of these initially intended as serious projects were started in the nineties, but most if not all failed, mostly because of the lack of a viable technical base , and became increasingly used for propaganda in a pathetic way by the increasingly desperate mullahs and their cronies, which also are authoring grotesque things like that Qaher abomination, or that silly drone. Moral of the story is, mullahs and ayatollahs and their cronies do not mix with technology, they don’t understand it’s importance, their number one goal is power and money, and deceiving their own peoples ( they don’t deceive the outseid world , that’s for sure, they are not smart enough) I was always wondering myself why IRIAF doesn’t have chaff& flare dispensers on their most important F-14s like they have in some of their F-4, and why the TorM1 and other best equipment Iran has is given to the IRGC. Answer is because the mullahs are afraid of an army coup hence why the IRIAF and the army are held on a lifeline, and the best gear goes to the IRGC fanatics.
In conclusion, i hope for the sake of the iranian people that the mullahs will be overthrown as soon as possible and replace by a military secular leadership, the mullah idiots are driving the country into a war because of their ineptitude and inability to maneuver politically around the US/israeli plans ( like i said, you have to be really stupid to alienate the russians ), not only that, but they left it practically defenseless! This is what the mullahs and ayatollahs can do to a country.
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