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	Iran Air Force
		By 1979 the air force, numbering close to 100,000 personnel, was by far the most advanced of the three services and among the most impressive air forces in the developing world.
		Reliable information on the air force after the Revolution was difficult to obtain, but it seems that by 1987 a fairly large number of aircraft had been cannibalized for spare parts.
		Finally, the air force's three SAM battalions and eight improved Hawk battalions were reorganized in the mid-1980s (in a project involving more than 1,800 missiles) into five squadrons that also contained Rapiers and Tigercats.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iran/airforce.htm (2410 words)

	HISTORY OF THE IMPERIAL IRANIAN AIR FORCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, in August 23, 1941 (3 Shahrivar, 1320), during the heat of the WWII Iranian neutrality was broken, and Iran was attacked from the air and the sea.
		Iranian Air Force that had been built by H.I.M. Reza Shah The Great had been all but destroyed by the British and Russian forces during their occupation from 1941 to 1946.
		Reza Shah, the founder of the Air Force was forced to resign, as part of the cease-fire condition imposed by the British.
	www.iiaf.net /history/iiaf.html (1910 words)

	Iran Culture and Information Center
		The air force was also active in the wake of the failed United States attempt to rescue American hostages in April 1980.
		Iranian defenses were caught by surprise, but the Iraqi raids failed because Iranian jets were protected in specially strengthened hangars and because bombs designed to destroy runways did not totally incapacitate Iran's very large airfields.
		With the increased use of the Iranian air force, the Iraqi progress was somewhat curtailed.
	www.iranvision.com /iraniraqwar.html (7496 words)

	Commander: Iranian Air Force Highly Equipped
		Turning to the missile technology of the country, he said all the air-to-air, air-to surface and surface-to-air missiles are being built in the country according to the modern and up-to-date technology.
		Further elaborating on other achievements of the Air Force, he said various missiles are being deployed on various planes, adding that Eastern-made missiles are used in Western-manufactured aircraft and vice versa.
		He said the Air Force carries out manufacture of one third of the parts or 80 percent of its general needs and is among the very few world countries in producing aircraft tyre.
	www.payvand.com /news/00/may/1098.html (347 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Iranian news agency, Fars, reported that the one-seater jet successfully completed Wednesday an operational flight and launched an air-to-surface missile, officially adding it to the ranks of the Iranian air force.
		According to reports of the Iranian national television channel, the range of the missiles is between 80 to 250 kilometers.
		Iranian television claims that the knowledge and technology for building the missile came solely from Iranian sources, but foreign sources claim that most of the technology came from other countries.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3300397,00.html (530 words)

	Persian 'Cats
		Iranian F-14-pilots were the élite of the Iranian Air Force (even if Iranian F-4 and F-5 pilots would certainly dispute this statement with some humor), and they proudly wore insignia identifying them as such.
		The first F-14 was delivered to the Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) in January 1976, and the first two units were fully operational by the summer of 1977, by when the training of additional crews was advancing at a very high pace.
		That it proved as successful in combat, and is still the premier fighter in the Iranian Air Force, is a fact beyond what most of the observers world-wide are able to comprehend, but also a result of sternous efforts of IRIAF personnel and immense investment of the Iranian economy.
	www.acig.org /artman/publish/article_212.shtml (1710 words)

	Iranian Airlines, A Short History - Pakistani Defence Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the early stages of the Iranian commercial airlines some of the pilots were active air force officers and years later, a number of Iranian airline pilots were former air force pilots.
		In 1943, Iranian air force, in the absence of a national airline, officially allocated one of its Oxford Airspeed aircraft and the necessary personnel exclusively for the transportation of government and military executives between Iranian cities.
		Iranians in general and Iran Air personnel in particular were proud of their pilots, who were outstandingly talented, well trained and skilled.
	www.pakistanidefenceforum.com /index.php?showtopic=40511 (9180 words)

	US fighters violate Iranian air space: report
		The report came less than a week after Iran's Air Force chief, Brigadier Karim Qavami was quoted as having ordered the forces under his command to open fire and shoot down any unidentified aircraft violating the country's air space.
		The Air Force chief stressed that 'any flight (within Iranian air space) must be coordinated, or else it will be targeted', the daily added.
		His statements came days after army chief General Mohammad Salimi was quoted as saying that the air force has been ordered to be prepared to defend the country's nuclear sites in the event of an attack.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/iran_us_fighters_violate_air_space.htm (623 words)

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		January 19, 2006: The Iranian Air Force is still recovering from the effects of the 1979 revolution (an embargo on spare parts and new aircraft).
		Iran’s Air Force is held together by ingenuity a lot of scrounging, and they have also been upgrading their force with modern Russian aircraft.
		Iranian ingenuity has allowed them to keep their air force as a viable force.
	www.strategypage.com /htmw/htairfo/articles/20060119.aspx (513 words)

	MILNET Brief - Iranian Conventional Forces
		It is also significant that the Iranian Navy has shelters and covert hides along the coast in on islands under their control in the Gulf, and clearly look to dominate the Gulf should the need arrive.
		In that analysis, we purposely assumed that if the Iranians were to put up an aircraft borne defense, it would serve the purpose of the attacking force to remove them from the picture, quickly and efficiently, and with only minimal losses.
		At the same time, Iranian conventional forces while certainly not at the top of the list in the region, are significant enough to pose a threat to their neighbors, especially with long range ballistic missiles, and most significantly to shipping in the Persian Gulf.
	www.milnet.com /Iranian-Military.html (2804 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Air force in Iran-Iraq war
		The Royal Air Force was badly outnumbered by a factor of 3 to 1, and the US and the USSR would not enter the war until a year later.
		I remember the day that the Iraqi Air Force bombed and terrorized most of the major cities in Iran, and Saddam's army crossed the border virtually unopposed and captured dozens of cities thousands of square kilometers of Iran's territory.
		Most of the history written about this aspect of the war claims that most of Iran's air force was grounded due to the lack of spare parts, desertion and execution of pilots and other personnel, and departure of US technicians.
	www.iranian.com /History/2003/July/AF (1385 words)

	History of Iran: Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988
		Iraq claimed the 200-kilometer channel up to the Iranian shore as its territory, while Iran insisted that the line running down the middle of the waterway negotiated last in 1975, was the official border.
		This show of force had impressed Iraqi decision makers to such an extent that they decided to launch a massive pre-emptive air strike on Iranian air bases in an effort similar to the one that Israel employed during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
		Armed forces were seeing an opportunity to regain prestige lost because of their association with the shah's regime.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/iran_iraq_war/iran_iraq_war1.php (2586 words)

	Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) (Persian: نیروی هوایی ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران‎ ) is the aviation branch of the Iranian armed forces.
		This "new" Iranian air force largely inherited the equipment and structure of the former IIAF, even losing most of its leading officers in the course of post-revolutionary chaos, as well as due to the prosecution of those considered as loyal to the Shah, pro-U.S. or elsewhere by the new regime in Tehran.
		From an air arm that was offensive by nature, it was largely relegated to air defence- and, relatively seldom, tasks of flying bombing attacks against targets of industrial- and military significance inside Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Air_Force (1501 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Iran will fight to its strengths
		These devastating air strikes would be delivered from a range of air bases established in friendly countries on all sides of Iran and from aircraft carriers, missile cruisers, destroyers and submarines in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.
		The Iranians appear to be pinning their hopes not on stopping the strikes, but simply on making them rather costly to the attacker, by developing an air-defense system based on a number of highly integrated local networks of interceptor aircraft.
		The Iranian naval forces could turn out to be a rather unpleasant surprise for the United States, very much the war of the flea versus the elephant, but still capable of giving a nasty bite or two.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/HH01Ak02.html (2020 words)

	History of the Iranian Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The IRIAF began as the Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) which was established in 1920 by the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, and became operational with its first fully trained pilots on February 25, 1925.
		Many aircraft belonging to the Iraqi Air Force took refuge in Iran during the Persian Gulf War, and many were put into service with the IRIAF or taken apart for spare parts.
		Due to the continuous spare parts shortages faced by the air force, a decision was made in the late 1990s to develop a local aerospace industry to support the air force.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Iranian_Air_Force (465 words)

	The Tehran Triad - April 2006
		Nor are Iranian officials shy about making threats to retaliate against any military strike on their country with means such as terror, incitement of an already explosive situation in Iraq, or by closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world’s oil flows.
		Iranian mechanized forces are filled out by an estimated 1,500 armored fighting vehicles, backed in indirect-fire support by an estimated 3,200 artillery pieces.
		Iranian ground forces aren’t particularly good, “nor would their air force be difficult for US forces to defeat,” said Michael E. O’Hanlon, defense analyst with the Brookings Institution.
	www.afa.org /magazine/April2006/0406tehran.asp (2925 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Iranian Air Force F-14
		Fundamentalist purges of Air Force officers, pilots, and personnel who were perceived to support the Shah further worsened the situation.
		Some sources even go so far as to claim that Iranian revolutionaries performed the sabotage as revenge against an Air Force perceived to be pro-Shah, but this seems very unlikely given the technical skill required.
		Early air battles tended to favor the Iranians whose pilots were better equipped and trained, but the lingering arms embargo and repeated purges of experienced personnel continued to reduce the nation's air capabilities.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/planes/q0077.shtml (1607 words)

	UFOs Swarming Over Iranian Nuclear Facilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Iranians complained about Unidentified Flying Objects at very low altitudes around its nuclear installations all around the country.
		Sources in Iran say, the Iranian Air Force have admitted these sighting and assuming these are US spy crafts, directed Iranian Air Force to shoot them down at sight.
		Sources also reveal that Iranian Air Force have failed shoot down even a single UFO and many in Iranian Air Force are complaining about lack of technical ability in shooting these UFOs down.
	www.rense.com /general61/swarm.htm (297 words)

	Iranian AF Jet Encounter 1976 (CohenUFO.org)
		It concerns an in-depth report of the September 19, 1976 UFO encounter with an F-4 air force jet from Shahrokhi Air Force Base in Iran (North of Tehran), verified by the G.S.W. Freedom of Information lawsuit previously discussed.
		Shortly after midnight on September 19, 1976, the Iranian Air Force command post in Tehran, Iran started receiving calls from local citizens reporting a strange object in the sky.
		In response to a radio inquiry control tower personnel stated that no other air traffic was known to be in the area.
	www.cohenufo.org /iranafjet.html (1694 words)

	The AirSafe Journal - Issue 3
		Coincidentally, the 747 involved in the TWA event was leased to the Iranian Air Force, but was involved in no unusual incidents prior to its return to the TWA fleet.
		The proliferation of portable, shoulder fired surface to air missiles has for many years led to fears that an individual or group would attempt to use such a missile to bring down a large commercial jet airliner.
		In the March 1994 issue of Air Transport World, the magazine reported on an October 1993 conference on terrorists threats to civil aircraft that was sponsored by the American Defense Preparedness Association.
	www.airsafe.com /journal/issue3.htm (1913 words)

	Iranian air force will knock down enemies if Iran was attacked -- IRGC Cmdr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Safavi said the well-equipped Iranian air force should be alerted to encounter any US or Israeli threat, in coordination with other Iranian forces in order to defend the lands and interests of Iran.
		The Israeli Air Force got an 80 to 1 kill ratio over the Syrians in the early 80s during their intervention in Lebanon.
		The Bekka valley turkey shoot in 1982 was at least 87 MIGs to one RF-4E air to air kill ratio.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1472052/posts (1621 words)

	IIAF training in Pakistan - PakDef Forums
		Iranians Air Force Pilots, who have graduated from Pakistan Air Force, they have become the best Iranians Pilot, and they are leading the Iranians Air Force in last twenty years.
		General Hooshank Sedigh, the Iranian Air Force Commander in 1980s, was one of the first Iranian Fighter Pilot who has trained in Pakistan Air Force, between years 1964 to 1967.
		These facts indicate two points; first, the serious negligence of an Iranian Air Force Officer, Moezi that finally ended to his crash; second, indicate the high standard of training and security in Pakistan Arm Forces, that a simple army solider was able to enforce the law.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=6133 (3696 words)

	WorldNetDaily: U.S. jets buzz Iran airspace
		WASHINGTON – U.S. military warplanes flew over Iranian air space, raising Tehran's concerns preparations are being made to knock out its nuclear facilities, according to Iranian news media reports.
		Iranian military specialists believe the intrusions are designed to assess the capabilities of Iran's anti-aircraft defenses.
		"The air force has been ordered to protect the nuclear sites, using all its power," the daily Iran quoted Salimi as saying, adding the air force had temporarily suspended all its maneuvers to focus its capabilities on patrolling the skies over Iran.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42225 (398 words)

	The Truth Seeker - Iranian air force put on alert
		The Iranian air force has been ordered to stand ready to defend the country’s nuclear sites in case of attack, army chief General Mohammad Salimi said on Wednesday.
		“The air force has temporarily suspended all its manoeuvres and focused its means on patrolling the sky,” he added.
		Leonid Ivashov was Chief of Staff of Russian armed forces when the 9/11 attacks took place, but he says, they weren't carried out by Osama or al-Qaeeda.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?ID=2610 (1024 words)

	Iranian Air Force on Modern Air Power magazine - Iran Defence Forum
		Yes and so were they americans, ever heard of the Iran-contra scandal the CIA was ecretly supplying the Iranians with spare parts for their aircraft!
		It wasn't so much that they were allies just that the US and Israel saw it as being in their interests to prolong the war so they gave both sides covert assistance in order to drag the war out and weaken both countries who they viewed as a threat.
		This is an independent forum and not related with the Iranian Government in any way.
	www.irandefence.net /showthread.php?p=4851 (383 words)

	F-14A Tomcat by John Chung (Italeri 1/72)
		During the early 1970s the Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) selected the Grumman F-14A Tomcat for an air superiority fighter.
		The choice came close between the F-15 Eagle, however the ability of the Tomcat to deliver the AIM-54 Phoenix AAM might have been a chief factor in the decision.
		The remaining F-14 Tomcats are said to have gone under upgrades and are expected to be in service with the Islamic Reformed Iranian Air Force (IRIAF) for years to come.
	hsfeatures.com /f14ajc_1.htm (692 words)

	THE IRANIAN: History, Imperial Iranian Air Force
		The Shah and a group of air force personnel with their wives.
		Below you can see several photos of Iranian air force planes from before the revolution (Imperial Iranian Air Force, IIAF).
		It shows the late Mohammad Reza Shah with a group of air force families.
	www.iranian.com /History/April99/Airforce/index.html (163 words)

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