Some big claims by BT
- OWJ and IAIO have jointly produced a local F-14 airframe or some variant of it
- Completely indigenous TF30-P414 Turbofan copy has been built by OWJ
- Is it a new fighter jet to be unvieled or just some tesbed he did not eloborate.
- AIM-9X equivalent all aspect (90 degrees boresight) CCD seeking "Azarakhsh" sidewinder being tested with four motors controlling canards.
- Fakour-90's next generation Maghsoud with ARH seeker and longer range (180-200 KM) is going into testing/production in mid-2022
- There are total 34 x F-14A/AM airworthy of which 8 are F-14AM
- F-14A/AM costs 3 Million USD per 24 months of routine service.
F-14AM's known upgrades
- Overhaul of airframe with 843 locally built parts
- New improved hydraulic and pneumatic system
- Complete overhaul of TF30-P414 Turbofans
- New Navigation and mission control system
- AWG-9 receiving lighter newly built parts, digitalization of signals, modern processors
- Fakour-90 LR-BVR Integration
Remove AWG-9 and LR-BVR from thr F-14 and its a becoming a burden on IRIAF