TheImmortal
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This is why working on light fighter jet's or small frigates like the Mowj class simply makes no sense in a country like Iran and Iran's military needs to do a better job working on force multipliers for platforms!
If your going to be producing jet engines, radars, avionics, sections of an airframe, landing gears, hydraulics,..... and all the little pieces that make up a fighter each at rates as low as 1 per month & lower then clearly your wasting your recourses if those personal and infrastructure are being used towards such a light and insignificant fighter platform.
Now if Iran was adding for example 15 fighters comparable to the J-20 or Su-57 to it's fleet in the next 3 years now that is a significant capability and is worth having personal and equipment spend a month trying to build and assemble each of the engines, Radars,.....
The production line was anything but a “production line”.
It was likely a existing retrofitting/refurbishment line that was converted to make some Kowsar. Because 5 F-5’s per year is quite frankly a joke in terms of efficiency of any production.
The US could produce 160 F-16’s per yr if it chooses. So assuming Iran has even 10% production capability as the US that would translate to 15 Kowsar a year.
The actual issue could be mass production of the engines. Maybe Iran has trouble producing the engines at a rate to match production of airframe. That’s kind of hard to believe, I mean if Iran even build 1 pair of J-85 engines per MONTH. It could field 12 Kowsar a year.