Hi mark, I seem to recall iran was going to manufacture an Iran-140 plane based on an ukranian design to haul cargo. There was also talk of using this as a base for an awac. Do you know what the state of this project.
The HESA IrAN-140 is built under license from Antanov. It can be configured to act as maritime recognizance or an Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, but to my knowledge no such variant equipped with rotodome was displayed at the National Armed Forces Day last April, where much of Iran's military aircraft made an appearance. However, an IRIAF Il-76 AEW did make a flyby over Tehran.
Hi mark, I seem to recall iran was going to manufacture an Iran-140 plane based on an ukranian design to haul cargo. There was also talk of using this as a base for an awac. Do you know what the state of this project.
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The HESA IrAN-140 is built under license from Antanov. It can be configured to act as maritime recognizance or an Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, but to my knowledge no such variant equipped with rotodome was displayed at the National Armed Forces Day last April, where much of Iran's military aircraft made an appearance. However, an IRIAF Il-76 AEW did make a flyby over Tehran.
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http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=18890
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_219.shtml
The Awac crashed as far as i know.
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