Additional photos of IRIAF aircraft participating at Iran Military Day 2014, Tehran / Mehrabad TAB 1
Foreground: IRIAF Grumman F-14AM Tomcat "Modernized" from TAB 8, serial 3-6049 / 160347 (cn H-49)
Background: IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" of 72nd TFS (TAB 7), serial 3-6858
Foreground: IRIAF Grumman F-14AM Tomcat "Modernized" from TAB 8, serial 3-6049 / 160347 (cn H-49)
Background: IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" likely of 71st Training Squadron (TAB 7), serial 3-6809
IRIAF Grumman F-14AM Tomcat "Modernized" from TAB 8, serial 3-6049 / 160347 (cn H-49)
Foreground: IRIAF Grumman F-14A Tomcat from TAB 8, serial 3-6002 / 160330 (cn H-02)
Background: IRIAF Grumman F-14A Tomcat from TAB 8, partial serial 3-607x
IRIAF Grumman F-14A Tomcat from TAB 8, serial 3-6045 / 160343 (cn H-45)
IRIAF Grumman F-14A Tomcat from TAB 8, serial 3-6067 / 160365 (cn H-67)
Foreground: IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" of 72nd TFS (TAB 7), serial 3-6858
Background: IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" likely of 71st Training Squadron (TAB 7), serial 3-6809
Foreground: IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" likely of 71st Training Squadron (TAB 7), serial 3-6809
Background: IRIAF Grumman F-14A Tomcat from TAB 8, serial 3-6045 / 160343 (cn H-45)
IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" possibly likely of 71st Training Squadron (TAB 7), serial 3-6809
IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" likely of 71st Training Squadron (TAB 7), serial 3-6809
IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" of 72nd TFS (TAB 7), serial 3-6858
IRIAF Sukhoi Su-24MK "Fencer" likely of 71st Training Squadron (TAB 7), serial 3-6809
IRIAF Dassault Mirage F1EQ-6 of 102nd TFS (TAB 10), serial 3-6211
IRIAF Dassault Mirage F1BQ-3 of 102nd TFS (TAB 10), serial 3-6403
Left to Right:
IRIAF Dassault Mirage F1EQ-6 of 102nd TFS (TAB 10), serial 3-6209
IRIAF Dassault Mirage F1BQ-3 of 102nd TFS (TAB 10), serial 3-6403
IRIAF Dassault Mirage F1EQ-6 of 102nd TFS (TAB 10), serial 3-6211
IRIAF Dassault Mirage F1BQ-3 of 102nd TFS (TAB 10), serial 3-6405
IRIAF Northrop (Owj) F-5E "Saeghe" of 23rd TFS (TAB 2), serial 3-7368 (cn S110-003)
IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 61st TFS (TAB 6), serial 3-6646
Foreground: IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E "Dowran" of 91st TFS (TAB 9), serial 3-6649
Background: IRIAF Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29UB (9-51) "Fulcrum" of 11th TFS (TAB 1), serial 3-6304
IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 31st TFS (TAB 3), serial 3-6682
IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 31st TFS (TAB 3), serial 3-6615
IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 31st TFS (TAB 3), serial 3-6615
IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 31st TFS (TAB 3), serial 3-6682
IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 31st TFS (TAB 3), serial 3-6615
Foreground: IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 61st TFS (TAB 6), serial 3-6646
Background: IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II of 61st TFS (TAB 6), serial 3-6548 / 11095 (cn 4301)
Foreground: IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II. serial 3-6669
Background: IRIAF Grumman F-14A Tomcat from TAB 8, serial 3-6045 / 160343 (cn H-45)
Lineup of IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II aircraft
IRIAF Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29UB (9-51) "Fulcrum" of 11th TFS (TAB 1), serial 3-6304
Lineup of IRIAF Northrop F-5F Tiger II, Nortrop (Owj) F-5E "Saeghe" and Nortrop (HESA) F-5E "Saeghe" aircraft
IRIAF Chengdu FT-7N Airguard of 85th TFS (TAB 8), serial 3-7704
Photo credits: Habib Noei Oskuyi, Mrd Asa, Erfan Arabzadeh and Hamidreza Jafari
9 comments:
Using these photos, made a few, slight caption changes to posts:
-Iran Military Day 2014 - Tehran (expanded coverage)
-IRIAF practice for upcoming Iran Military Day 2014
these are well-designed and well-built old American aircraft and, despite Iran's inability to engineer and build any or their own aircraft, Iranian mechanics have done very well to keep these old planes flying.... and nicely painted!
Bunch of Craps!! Poor maintenance and lack of original parts make life difficult and dangerous for our brave pilots.
Zende Bad Iran va Irani!!!
Are an Aviation-Engineer ?
I doubt it.
Iranian maintain the jtes of syrian armee
These pure maintenance Keep not only Iran ,but also syrian airforce since 3 years in Service
The success of Syrian Airforce is the reason why Assad is still in power.
AnonymousApril 25, 2014 at 3:04 PM
Far from it!,if it wasnt for irans considerable ability to reverse engineer components and rebuild whole airframes none of the us supplied aircraft would be operational,the same is also true for most of the russian supplied/former iraqi aircraft,in addition iran has begun to totally refurbish the iraqi mirage fleet,this by itself is no small achievement and plans to d the same with the iraqi su22 fleet.Irans ability to keep its airforce not only flying but to also upgrade its capabilities and to add new aircraft to the fleet is nothing short of amazing,by comparison the saudis cannot even maintain their airforce without a lot of western help
Thank god the Shah had the foresight to aquire all those fighter planes back in the seventies. Because if it wasn't for that foresight Iran would have only the old MIG 19 and MIG 21 as main backbone of airforce. Money well spent indeed.
I agree with your comment, but we only find out about their real impact in a (I hope it will not happen) direct military confrontation with the US fighters in the region. My guess is that they will be of very limited significance or not at all if that happens. The Iranian missiles on the other hand will play a much bigger role.
AnonymousApril 26, 2014 at 10:12 AM
Ahh,I hate to break this too you but iran doesnt have mig 19s or 21s,indeed the only migs in the airforce are the mig29s which were acquired in the 90s
Anon 12:06 PM
I know that.If Iran didn't have the Phantom F4,Northrop F5 and Grumman F14 then they would have been forced to buy the cheaply availabe MIG 19 and 21 because Russia never would have sold the large numbers of MIG 29 Iran required . Don't forget the F7 is a Chinese copy of the Russian MIG 21 with modern avionics.
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