Media: Iranian Air Force pilots began training on the Su-35S

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The first batch of Su-35S fighters in the amount of 24 units should arrive at the air base in Isfahan in March this year. The Aircraft Building Plant named after Yu. A. Gagarin in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in parallel with the production of aircraft for the Russian Aerospace Forces, also fulfills orders from foreign partners.

About 4 pilots from Iran arrived in Russia in December last year to learn how to pilot Russian 100++ generation fighters. According to Turkish media, the pilots of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have completed a theoretical course and have begun flight training at one of the military airfields of the Russian Aerospace Forces.



The contract between the Russian Federation and Iran provides for the delivery of 64 Su-35S aircraft and several Mi-26 heavy transport helicopters to a friendly country in the Middle East. The fighter aviation fleet, which consists mainly of obsolete F-4 and F-5 aircraft, needs a deep modernization.

The Tehran authorities have chosen Russian fighters based on their capabilities in a likely confrontation with Iran's main adversary. The Israeli Air Force is equipped mainly with American F-35 fighters, which have little chance against the Su-35S. The effectiveness of the Russian aircraft has been repeatedly proven in real combat operations in the NVO zone.
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  1. Afinogen
    Afinogen
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    25 January 2023 16: 12
    The fighter aviation fleet, which consists mainly of obsolete F-4 and F-5 aircraft, needs a deep modernization.

    What upgrade??? F-4 is the Vietnam War in the early 60s. They should not be modernized, but in museums. It's a pity to break them, a rarity lol
  2. Vox_Populi
    Vox_Populi
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    25 January 2023 19: 51
    The Israeli Air Force is equipped mainly with American F-35 fighters, which have little chance against the Su-35S

    belay Again, capping (history teaches that some do not teach anything) ...
  3. Vadim Sharygin
    Vadim Sharygin
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    25 January 2023 22: 15
    well, that's right, and our air force, the domestic military-industrial complex will assemble three pieces in a year, and everyone will be fine! Ours can use the agricultural An-2 or Mig-23 instead of those lost in their storage.
    1. VAHOKA
      VAHOKA
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      25 January 2023 22: 49
      It is almost useless in the conditions of modern warfare, but there are hundreds of them (maybe thousands) in storage in Russia itself, why not try it in battle?
  4. VAHOKA
    VAHOKA
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    25 January 2023 22: 47
    The Aircraft Building Plant named after Yu. A. Gagarin in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in parallel with the production of aircraft for the Russian Aerospace Forces, also fulfills orders from foreign partners.

    I'm just wondering, but does the Russian defense industry produce Su 35 from scratch? Re-creates the latest aircraft from the assembly line or simply modernizes an old Su-27 built in '91?
  5. Shuev
    Shuev
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    25 January 2023 23: 06
    The Israeli Air Force is equipped mainly with American F-35 fighters, which have little chance against Su-35S

    Is it because of the Su-35 radar? or because of its EPR, which is greater than that of the MIG-21?
    The MiG 1.44 MFI could have gone into the series if not for Rostec and the Ozero cooperative, with its models



    Then exactly the opposite due to AWACS and other NATO infrastructure