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Iran’s vaunted first home-produced fighter jet is a hybrid of Soviet and Chinese technologies and vintage American components

The new aircraft, dubbed Saegheh (Lightning), was proudly unveiled before foreign correspondents at Tehran’s international airport Thursday, Sept. 20. Iran’s defense minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar boasted that the fighter is the equal of the American F-18 Hornet. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Saegheh comes nowhere near the capabilities of the F-18, which are deployed on US carriers and fly with the Marines.What the Iranians have done is to put together elements cannibalized from the US F-14 of the 1970s which revolutionary Iran inherited from the shah, and components of the Russian Sukhoi pepped up with ageing electronic equipment purchased recently from Byelorussia. This hybrid product is no match for the latest US and Israeli air force planes or their avionic systems.DEBKAfile’s sources report that three Saegheh jets at most were assembled for a flyover at Saturday’s military parade which marked the 27th anniversary of the onset of the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s. Iran’s aviation industry is far from capable of arming its air force with an entire fleet of domestically manufactured cutting-edge fighters.The pair were paraded to boost morale at home. Since the beginning of the year, the clerical regime has countered proliferating reports of US preparations for an attack on its nuclear industry by showing off one purported new weapon after another and staging spectacular war games.This is an attempt to scare off the Americans and Israelis from military action and reassure the populace. But, according to DEBKAfile’s US and Israel weapons experts, none of the new weapons has been tried in real combat conditions and their value is therefore unproven.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4604
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